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 Толстой – Уж ласточки, кружась, над крышей щебетали
- The Welsh Marches poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам говорят без всякой лести
- The Poor Fisherman
- Sonnet # 14 by Luis A. Estable
- Song—Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel by Robert Burns
- Crepuscule du Matin poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Илья Зданевич – Галоша
- Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Jean Scott:
- As the Bell Clinks by Rudyard Kipling
- Purple Heart Liz (My Girl At Woodstock) by Steve Sant
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Осеннее золото
- Lost poem – Alfred Austin
- Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay:
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.