A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
The world’s
not wanton
only wild and wavering
I wanted to choose words that even you
would have to be changed by
Take the word
of my pulse, loving and ordinary
Send out your signals, hoist
your dark scribbled flags
but take
my hand
All wars are useless to the dead
My hands are knotted in the rope
and I cannot sound the bell
My hands are frozen to the switch
and I cannot throw it
The foot is in the wheel
When it’s finished and we’re lying
in a stubble of blistered flowers
eyes gaping, mouths staring
dusted with crushed arterial blues
I’ll have done nothing
even for you?
A few random poems:
- Владимир Британишский – Перед самой войной
- Alice Fell, Or Poverty by William Wordsworth
- Couplet 11 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- English Poetry. Richard Hovey. John Keats. Ричард Хави.
- Владимир Маяковский – Уймется Антанта… (РОСТА №571)
- Николай Языков – А. А. Елагину (Была прекрасна, весела…)
- On The Wedding Of The Aeronaut poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonet 41 by William Alexander
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы живём в большом селе Большие Вилы
- Young Man’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Студенческая песня
- Great-Heart by Rudyard Kipling
- Once Upon A Wandering Mind poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- Константин Бальмонт – Черный и белый
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.