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:
- From ‘Arcades’ poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Британишский – Смешанный брак
- Аля Кудряшева – По дому бегает Марфа
- Ode 1957: An intellectual by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хвала человеческому телу
- To Dr. MReading Mathmatics by William Somervile
- Аля Кудряшева – Невозможно держать в памяти все человечество
- Long Distance I by Tony Harrison
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Нина Воронель – Дождливый рассвет
- The Bombardment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – Город сестер любви видение
- Владимир Британишский – Мне скучно
- Fate poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Федор Сологуб – Под сению креста рыдающая мать
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.