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:
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- A love song poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field. by Walt Whitman
- The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Вишневский – Кто-то тянется к водному поло
- Гавриил Державин – Храповицкому (Храповицкий! дружбы знаки)
- Ольга Берггольц – Майя
- Нина Воронель – Ломбардная баллада
- София Парнок – Сегодня с неба день поспешней
- The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Tear-Drop:
- Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
- For The Future by Wendell Berry
- The Rhyme of the Three Captains by Rudyard Kipling
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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.