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:
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- Bound Home to Mount Song by Wang Wei
- Владимир Маяковский – Пожарные лозунги (1928)
- A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada by William Strode
- Алексей Толстой – Ты не спрашивай, не распытывай
- By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
- Robert Burns: To Miss Cruickshank, a very Young Lady : Written on the Blank Leaf of a Book, presented to her by the Author.
- Roaming in Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Шекспир – Запечатленный в слове лик твой милый – Сонет 59
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Фронту помог ты… (РОСТА №444)
- Signals by Walid Saba
- Николай Языков – А. А. Воейковой (На петербургскую дорогу)
- Владимир Маяковский – Что значило “празднование новогоднее”?.. (РОСТА №672)
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar by Robert Browning
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 Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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.