A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Three hours chain-smoking words
and you move on. We stand in the porch,
two archaic figures: a woman and a man.
The old masters, the old sources,
haven’t a clue what we’re about,
shivering here in the half-dark sixties.
Our minds hover in a famous impasse
and cling together. Your hand
grips mine like a railing on an icy night.
The wall of the house is bleeding. Firethorn!
The moon, cracked every which-way.
pushes steadily on.
A few random poems:
- Poem by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Низами Гянджеви – Жить в заботе и невзгодах, расточая зло
- Ольга Берггольц – Вечерняя станция
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Before the Battle by Siegfried Sassoon
- Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
- Composed While The Author Was Engaged In Writing A Tract Occasioned By The Convention Of Cintra by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Осень (Мне осень озёрного края)
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- A Man Young And Old: IV. The Death Of The Hare by William Butler Yeats
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Одиночество
- Sonnet # 14 by Luis A. Estable
- In Praise Of Henna by Sarojini Naidu
- Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon by Vernon Scannell
- With a Book poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
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 Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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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.