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 Маяковский – Вот за то, что я пою… (Главполитпросвет №153)
- Doors Of The Temple poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Rogue Elephant poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- MANY NAMESAKES by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare
- A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Альфред де Мюссе – Майская ночь
- English Poetry. Thomas Aird. The Devil’s Dream on Mount Aksbeck. Томас Эрд.
- Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? by William Shakespeare
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- Владимир Маяковский – Юг завоевала победа… (РОСТА №568)
- MANY NAMESAKES by Satish Verma
- The Gift by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Hanging Tree
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-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.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.