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:
- Old People’s Home by W H Auden
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Don’t Disappear by Roberto Cocina
- Ольга Седакова – Как упавшую руку
- Алексей Толстой – То было раннею весной
- Владимир Костров – То в ночи она вспыхнет, как спичка
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Old Deuteronomy by T. S. Eliot
- On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations by Robert Burns
- Вера Павлова – Завещание
- Степан Щипачев – Опять тревожно, больно сердцу стало
- Couplet 4 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Василий Жуковский – К Дмитриеву (Нет, не прошла)
- Astrophel and Stella: I by Sir Philip Sidney
- Владимир Маяковский – Слово “Товарищ” говоришь ты?! (РОСТА №449)
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.