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:
- On An Ugly Fellow (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- No LOVE by venkatesh.valusa
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. by Walt Whitman
- Couplet 1 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- L’Allegro poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet Of Motherhood X poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- The Hawthorn Tree by Willa Cather
- Степан Щипачев – По дороге в совхоз
- Михаил Ломоносов – На Сарское село августа 24 дня 1764 года
- The Indian To His Love by William Butler Yeats
- Алексей Плещеев – Весна (Песни жаворонков снова)
- Olney Hymn 27: Welcome To The Table by William Cowper
- Cino poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry
- Upon Julia’s Breast by Marie Starr
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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)
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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.