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:
- Николай Гумилев – Лаос
- Sonet 33 by William Alexander
- Light by Rabindranath Tagore
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- Владимир Маяковский – Политические партии в России
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- Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
- Paradise Lost: Book 11 poem – John Milton poems
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- Doomes-Day: The Second Houre by William Alexander
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- Here Dead We Lie poem – A. E. Housman
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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
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- Ecco Mormorar L’onde (Now The Waves Murmur) by Torquato Tasso
- Vegetable Swallow by Tristan Tzara
- To Make A Dadist Poem by Tristan Tzara
- The Last Breath of a Ship by Tri Tran
- The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three by Tristan Tzara
- Proclamation Without Pretension by Tristan Tzara
- Cinema Calendar Of The Abstract Heart; 09 by Tristan Tzara
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.