A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Talking of poetry, hauling the books
arm-full to the table where the heads
bend or gaze upward, listening, reading aloud,
talking of consonants, elision,
caught in the how, oblivious of why:
I look in your face, Jude,
neither frowning nor nodding,
opaque in the slant of dust-motes over the table:
a presence like a stone, if a stone were thinking
What I cannot say, is me. For that I came.

A few random poems:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бегун морей дорогою безбрежной
- Владимир Корнилов – Достается, наверно, непросто
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Neäme Letters by William Barnes
- Алексей Толстой – Пусть тот, чья честь не без укора
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- Федор Сологуб – Когда я в бурном море плавал
- Виктор Гончаров – Больной, как будто бы гранату
- Maktoob
- From Behind The Lattice
- Hobbinol; or The Rural Games – Canto 3 by William Somervile
- Юлиан Анисимов – Из Рильке
- The Scratch by Raymond Carver
- Shivratri The Night Of Shiva While The Procession Passed At Ramesram
- The Benefactors Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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.