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:
- Song—Awa’, Whigs, Awa’ by Robert Burns
- Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Благородство страданием, друг, рождено
- Beautiful Stranger by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Song—Behold, my love, how green the groves by Robert Burns
- Николай Заболоцкий – Лесная сторожка
- You Are Mine by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
- Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint poem – John Milton poems
- Before The Game by Vasko Popa
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Вера Павлова – Ты вольно или невольно
- Наум Коржавин – Наверно, я не так на свете жил
- And ask ye why these sad tears stream? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- In The Country – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet LII by William Shakespeare
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.