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:
- Джон Донн – Лекция о тени
- Herodotus in Egypt Remeber Delos by Ruth Padel
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- By Broad Potomac’s Shore. by Walt Whitman
- Totem by Sylvia Plath
- A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope
- Ode to H.H. The Nizam Of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- “According to the Mighty Working” by Thomas Hardy
- Ольга Берггольц – Воспоминание (И вот в лицо пахнуло земляникой)
- Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman by William Butler Yeats
- The Gardener XI: Come As You Are by Rabindranath Tagore
- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only. by Walt Whitman
- Upon An Eunuch; A Poet. Fragment poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.