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 Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn by Robert Burns
- Epitaph On An Infant. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- O aye my wife she dang me (Song) by Robert Burns
- Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
- Иван Бунин – Богиня
- How a Little Girl Sang by Vachel Lindsay
- November, 1806 by William Wordsworth
- Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray
- Upon Her Eyes by Robert Herrick
- Николай Гумилев – За часом час бежит и падает во тьму
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell poem – John Keats poems
- Ольга Седакова – Преданья о подвижниках похожи
- Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Coleridge
- To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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.