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:
- Федор Сологуб – Под кустами
- Илья Эренбург – Я помню, давно уже я уловил
- Ярослав Смеляков – Стихи, написанные в псковской гостинице
- Стефан Малларме – Ее ногтей ожив, что ожил из пароса
- Love’s Confession poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
- Hail, Twilight, Sovereign Of One Peaceful Hour by William Wordsworth
- Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Что шумишь
- Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes by Thomas Moore
- Attadale, West Highlands by William Ernest Henley
- The Challenge: A Court Ballad poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Бундур – На высоком берегу
- The Quesion by Rudyard Kipling
- Аля Кудряшева – Ты рисуй, девочка, небо пошире
- The Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me 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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.