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:
- An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare poem – John Milton poems
- The Flash Reverses Time poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Николай Языков – А. В. Киреевой (Тогда как сердцем мы лелеем)
- Orlando Furioso Canto 9 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours. by Walt Whitman
- A song of living poem – Amelia Burr poems | Poems and Poetry
- No Rival Like The Past
- After Rain by P. K. Page
- Buried Love by Sara Teasdale
- Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock by Robert Burns
- Sonnets CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Федор Сологуб – Ах, лягушки по дорожке
- The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas
- Наум Коржавин – Комиссары
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.