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:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Праздник на биваке
- Владимир Луговской – Пила
- The Rising and Falling of Trees by Patricia Fargnoli
- All The Time In The World by Shel Silverstein
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- On the Birth of a Posthumous Child by Robert Burns
- The Statues by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Hymn to Spiritual Desire. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Николай Гумилев – Мадагаскар
- Little Of Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden
- Wednesday by Marvin Bell
- Robert Burns: Esteem For Chloris:
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ночь
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Summer poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Suggested by the Cover of a Volume of Keats’s poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Stupidity poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Stravinsky’s Three Pieces poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Storm-Racked poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Spring Day poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sea Shell poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sea Shell poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Red Slippers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Reaping poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Petals poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Patterns poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Patience poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Patience poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Carpaccio’s Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.