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:
- The Nautical Why poem – Amy Nawrocki poems | Poems and Poetry
- Keeping the Dawn by Shaunna Harper
- Ок Мельникова – All I want, all I need
- My Springs by Sidney Lanier
- Robert Burns: Farewell To Eliza:
- Владимир Маяковский – Разве у вас не чешутся обе лопатки
- When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- Юнна Мориц – В серебряном столбе
- Валерий Брюсов – После сенокоса
- Robert Burns: Frae The Friends And Land I Love:
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- The house where I was born (05) by Yves Bonnefoy
- There is but there is not poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
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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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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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.