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:
- Омар Хайям – Часть людей обольщается жизнью земной
- Владимир Маяковский – Солдаты самодержавной армии мясниками бывали… (РОСТА №146)
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Тополь
- Иван Киуру – Оазис
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Celebrate Spring Today poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Mary Morison:
- Ella Mason And Her Eleven Cats by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet. Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition poem – John Keats poems
- The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
- Cino poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Factors Affecting the Labor Market – Determination of Wages and The Activities of Trade Unions
- The Perfect Marriage by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet XVII. Happy Is England poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ну вот – всё ладится, идет всё понемногу
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Poems.html 0
- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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.