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:
- Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire by William Shakespeare
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
- The Rum Tum Tugger by T. S. Eliot
- The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet To George Keats: Written In Sickness poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: I’ll Go And Be A Sodger:
- Николай Языков – Послание к А. Н. Очкину (О, ты, с которым я, от юношеских лет)
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Уймется Антанта… (РОСТА №571)
- L’Art poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Drying Clothes poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Diffugere Nives poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Маяковский – Было с белым много дел… (Главполитпросвет №44)
- Robert Burns: Mary Morison:
- Fragment of Song—“My Jean!” by Robert Burns
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
- first_light.html
- excerpt_from_the_quotgertrude_steinquot_collaborative_series.html
- eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
- drunkenness.html
- do_not_get_angry.html
- dickinson_and_the_alabaster_gogyohka.html
- dawned_again.html
- create.html
- conference_swan_beauty.html
- colors_and_sounds.html
- children039s_eyes.html
- athens_stone_of_sapphire_of_ground_the_ring.html
- as_with_recitation_and_the_loss_of_a_kuhi.html
- antediluvian_kural_on_twitter.html
- alexander.html
- acts_of_love.html
- a_single_man.html
- a_poem.html
- a_dialogue.html
- a_city_one_wish.html
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.