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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Марине
- Far Within Us #5 by Vasko Popa
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Водой наполненные горсти
- Ulysses poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Song For A Revolutionary Love by Sylvia Plath
- sea.html
- Ольга Берггольц – Разговор с соседкой
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Владимир Маяковский – Продналог оставил деревне много лишка… (Главполитпросвет №157)
- Гавриил Державин – О удовольствии
- Николай Гербель – Ура, объявлена война
- Как Муромец Илья когда-то
- Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh by Robert Burns
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.