A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
I am walking rapidly through striations of light and dark thrown under an arcade.
I am a woman in the prime of life, with certain powers
and those powers severely limited
by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
I am a woman in the prime of life
driving her dead poet in a black Rolls-Royce
through a landscape of twilight and thorns.
A woman with a certain mission
which if obeyed to the letter will leave her intact.
A woman with the nerves of a panther
a woman with contacts among Hell’s Angels
a woman feeling the fullness of her powers
at the precise moment when she must not use them
a woman sworn to lucidity
who sees through the mayhem, the smoky fires
of these underground streets
her dead poet learning to walk backward against the wind
on the wrong side of the mirror
A few random poems:
- The Colored Balloon by Mike Yuan
- London Roses by Willa Cather
- Sonnet CI by William Shakespeare
- Artegal And Elidure by William Wordsworth
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Love by Robert Creeley
- Ок Мельникова – Моя муза любитель блюза
- Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 5 by William Somervile
- Иван Барков – Улика подьячего
- Amoraphobia by Shaunna Harper
- Colors by Shel Silverstein
- The Cat in the Kitchen by Robert Bly
- Михаил Кузмин – Вы белое бургундское вино
- Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
- The Quarry by William Vaughn Moody
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
- Indian Dancers by Sarojini Naidu
- Indian Dancer by Sarojini Naidu
- In The Forest by Sarojini Naidu
- In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu
- In Praise Of Henna by Sarojini Naidu
- Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) by Sarojini Naidu
- Harvest Hymn by Sarojini Naidu
- Ecstasy by Sarojini Naidu
- Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile by Sarojini Naidu
- Cradle Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Coromandel Fishers by Sarojini Naidu
- Corn Grinders by Sarojini Naidu
- Autumn Song by Sarojini Naidu
- An Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Alabaster by Sarojini Naidu
- A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- A Love Song from the North by Sarojini Naidu
- Wishes by Satish Verma
- WINGS ATTACHED by Satish Verma
- WHAT ENDING by Satish Verma
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.