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:
- Optimist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Илья Эренбург – Я слышу всё, и горестные шепоты
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Николай Карамзин – К Дмитриеву (Многие барды, лиру настроив)
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Behavior. by Walt Whitman
- England’s Answer by Rudyard Kipling
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Yasmini
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws by William Shakespeare
- Woodcom’ Feast by William Barnes
- To Solitude poem – John Keats poems
- The Amaranth by Vachel Lindsay
- The Wold Wall by William Barnes
- Жан де Лафонтен – Астролог, упавший в колодец
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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.