A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
The pact that we made was the ordinary pact
of men & women in those days
I don’t know who we thought we were
that our personalities
could resist the failures of the race
Lucky or unlucky, we didn’t know
the race had failures of that order
and that we were going to share them
Like everybody else, we thought of ourselves as special
Your body is as vivid to me
as it ever was: even more
since my feeling for it is clearer:
I know what it could and could not do
it is no longer
the body of a god
or anything with power over my life
Next year it would have been 20 years
and you are wastefully dead
who might have made the leap
we talked, too late, of making
which I live now
not as a leap
but a succession of brief, amazing movements
each one making possible the next
A few random poems:
- Damned by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Rimini by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Карамзин – Тацит
- For To Admire by Rudyard Kipling
- Secrecy Protested. by Thomas Carew
- Petals poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher:
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- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2 poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Высоцкий – Одесские куплеты
- Henry Purcell poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Fairy Land v by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Verses Written With A Pencil Over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth.:
- Ghouls parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Заболоцкий – Змеи
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- The most noble bird, wife by Mukeshkumar Raval
- The Morning Breeze by Mousumi Guha Roy
- The ME inside by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- The Labour by Mousumi Guha Roy
- The Drum-Stick Tree by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- the branches of pine tree by Mousumi Guha Roy
- The Beyond by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Sting by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Snake Pit by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Six-Word Poem by Monty Gilmer
- Rain all along by Mukeshkumar Raval
- Poem by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Poem by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Parody on a Haiku by Issa by Monty Gilmer
- No Regrets by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- My Mother by Claude McKay
- My impure god and I by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- My Dear Old Mother by Walter William Safar
- Mother by Shahida Latif
- Lost and Found by Muralidharan Mudaliar
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.