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:
- an evening’s music by Raj Arumugam
- A Morning Letter by Stevens Cadet
- Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Шекспир – Мой глаз гравером стал – Сонет 24
- Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer by Rabindranath Tagore
- Валерий Брюсов – Дозор
- Владимир Маяковский – Успокоилась Франция, злобой не пышет… (РОСТА №625)
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Федор Сологуб – Слышу голос милой
- Владимир Солоухин – Тропа нацелена в звезду
- Яков Полонский – Одному из усталых
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 91. Oh, Ye Dead!. Томас Мур.
- Владимир Маяковский – Вам нравится есть?.. (РОСТА №528)
- Autumn Days by Will McKendree Carleton
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.