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:
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
- Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day by Marge Piercy
- Вера Полозкова – Мне бы только хотелось
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на день рождения А. А. Плещеевой 14 октября
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- “Give me October’s meditative haze” poem – Alfred Austin
- Михаил Лермонтов – Воля
- Au Bal poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Григорьев – С длинным батоном под мышкой
- Slag by Mark Base
- Юлия Друнина – В манеже
- Intrigued with Evening by Jelaluddin Rumi
- Surreal landscapes by Sunil Sharma
- Ode to the Memory of Burns by Thomas Campbell
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.