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:
- Как жаль, что много лет назад
- Love Gregor; Or, The Lass Of Lochroyan poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Two Springs by William Somervile
- An Old Doll
- Robert Burns: For The Sake O’ Somebody:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Воля и Неволя
- Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
- Оливер Голдсмит – Пыл упований людям дан
- The Gardener IX: When I Go Alone at Night by Rabindranath Tagore
- Composed By The Sea-Side, Near Calais, August 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Sparrow singing by Yosa Buson
- Владимир Маяковский – С винтовкой, но без знания – нет побед (РОСТА № 115)
- For The Anniversary Of John Keats’ Death by Sara Teasdale
- The Nights Remember by Sara Teasdale
- Омар Хайям – Мы источник веселья, и скорби рудник
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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.