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: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
- Ancient Music poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Костров – Отшумели сады, отзвенела вода
- Robert Burns: On Politics:
- An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester poem – John Milton poems
- God’s Abdication by Snowdon King
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Эмиль Верхарн – Золото
- Юлия Друнина – Убивали молодость мою
- Владимир Маяковский – Глупая история
- Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38
- Василий Тредиаковский – О коль мне тамо сладка веселия было
- sadness from the night by Raj Arumugam
- Иван Мятлев – Падучая звезда
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.