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?
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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- A Consolation to Cuckholds by William Wycherley poems
- A Soft Day by Winifred Mary Letts
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
- To A Soldier In Hospital by Winifred Mary Letts
- To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
- Tim, An Irish Terrier by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Spires Of Oxford by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.