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:
- Robert Burns: O, Were I On Parnassus Hill:
- The Breeze at Dawn by Jelaluddin Rumi
- Ode On A Grecian Urn poem – John Keats poems
- The Moon’s Truth (before the war) by Reena Ribalow
- We know this much by Sappho
- Владимир Маяковский – В Советской России не может быть никакого царя… (Главполитпросвет №361)
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Британишский – Дороги
- Валерий Брюсов – In hас lackimarum valle (в этой долине слез )
- Jeane’s Wedden Day In Mornen by William Barnes
- Нина Воронель – Неделю, как сотню, лучше не трогать
- Prayer
- In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope
- St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Last Turn Of The Morning Carousel/Forever Turn The Midnight Carousel by Matthew Abuelo
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.