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:
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Little Girl Dancing by Susan King Saunders
- Аля Кудряшева – М. и П.
- Song—A Health to ane I loe dear by Robert Burns
- Farewell to Hsin Chien at Hibiscus Pavilion by Wang Wei
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я был слесарь шестого разряда
- Федор Сологуб – Солнце, которому больно
- Robert Burns: O Aye My Wife She Dang Me:
- Юлиан Анисимов – Стихи мои, нежные гости
- Quarrel In Old Age by William Butler Yeats
- The Infernal Regions
- Epistle to Colonel de Peyster by Robert Burns
- The Drowned Man poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Attitude: Don Juan in the Shopping Mall by S. K. Kelen
- The Last Tournament poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.