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:
- Алексей Плещеев – Она и он
- A Tulip Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Stwonèn Pworch by William Barnes
- Владимир Британишский – Молодой Толстой
- Алексей Толстой – Василий Шибанов
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- Infelice by Stevie Smith
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Атону
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract poem – John Betjeman poems
- In A Time Of Dearth poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robin Hood And The Butcher poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Новелла Матвеева – Мне кажется
- Наум Коржавин – Не верь, что ты поэта шире
- The Gardener XXI: Why Did He Choose by Rabindranath Tagore
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.