A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Miracle’s truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.
Take what’s still given: in a room’s rich shadow
a woman’s breasts swinging lightly as she bends.
Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves.
Late, you sit weighing the evening news,
fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions,
the rest of your heart.

A few random poems:
- Эмиль Верхарн – Женщина в черном
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
- Conversation 4: On Place by Rosmarie Waldrop
- The Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
- Николай Тихонов – Даль полевая, как при Калите
- Far Within Us #4 by Vasko Popa
- Damned by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Михаил Кузмин – В густом лесу мы дождь пережидали
- Олег Григорьев – Дождь
- Addressed To Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- First Look at Mom by Nikhil Jain
- Владимир Британишский – Отечественные записки 1840-х годов
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- Petals poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Британишский – Сон: в детстве, весной, в лесу
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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.