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:
- Nationality by Mary Gilmore
- Ritual by Tala Bar
- Ок Мельникова – Не в этот раз
- Владимир Маяковский – В Европе кризис (РОСТА №869)
- Владимир Маяковский – Работникам стиха и прозы, на лето едущим в колхозы
- Омар Хайям – Люди тлеют в могилах, ничем становясь
- Иван Мятлев – Бывало
- Владимир Маяковский – Пожарные лозунги (1928)
- The Grasshopper
- Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: The Epitaph:
- Наум Коржавин – Иван Калита
- Animals Are Passing From Our Lives by Philip Levine
- Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Another Song Of A Fool by William Butler Yeats
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.