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 Leädy’s Tower by William Barnes
- Аля Кудряшева – Такие слишком медовые эти луны
- Emotions in exile by Shailendra Chauhan
- Fragments by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – Пловец (Воют волны, скачут волны)
- Robert Burns: Jerusalem Tavern, Dumfries.: Inscription On A Goblet
- Calling All Angels
- Владимир Степанов – Хрюшка
- Mystic Trumpeter, The. by Walt Whitman
- Вера Полозкова – Да что у меня, нормально всё, так, условно
- Goodbat Nightman by Roger McGough
- God lay dead in heaven by Stephen Crane
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Blue Period by Shaunna Harper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чувство
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
- 3 Fun Ways to Stimulate Creative Thinking
- The True Beauty of Poetry
- Waste Land – A Thorough History of Humanity
- What is Forged Steel Roll and How is it Involved in Industry?
- Gospel Music Inspires Body & Soul
- Creative Branding Solutions – So Why Do I Need a Logo?
- Writing Strategy: On Getting Inspired Everyday
- Creativity in America and How Italians Can Learn From American Ingenuity
- The Modern Lyricist As Poet
- Free Poetry Competitions – Prepare to Win The Next Poetry Competition That You Enter!
- Live Inspired With Famous Inspiring Quotes
- Songwriting Tip – Structure of a Pop Song
- Comments: A Life Well Lived is Always an Inspiration – My Friend Muniappan Velu of Chennai, India
- How Does Writing Improves Your Mental Health?
- Book Review: A Dictionary Of Indian English Litterateurs: 1794-2010
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Indifference. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In the Forest. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Hymn to Spiritual Desire. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
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.