A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to
But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I
A few random poems:
- Владимир Гиляровский – На Севере
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ребенку
- Demon And Beast by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?:
- “To fix her!-’twere a task as vain” by Tobias Smollett
- Ballade Of A Toyokuni Colour-Print by William Ernest Henley
- Олег Бундур – Папа возмущается
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- The Vier-Zide by William Barnes
- Two Kinds of Intelligence by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Prière by T. Wignesan.
- John Barleycorn: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- Николай Глазков – Чингисхан, Батый, Аттила
- In the Time of War, XII by W H Auden
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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.