A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Their life, collapsed like unplayed cards,
is carried piecemeal through the snow;
Headboard and footboard now, the bed
where she has lain desiring him
where overhead his sleep will build
its canopy to smother her once more;
their table, by four elbows worn
evening after evening while the wax runs down;
mirrors grey with reflecting them,
bureaus coffining from the cold
things that can shuffle in a drawer,
carpets rolled up around those echoes
which, shaken out, take wing and breed
new altercations, the old silences.
A few random poems:
- The Stinging Nettle poem – A. E. Housman
- Two Or Three poem – John Keats poems
- Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss by Sylvia Plath
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня девушки в тайге
- XVI: Some Verses: Of Conquerouris by William Alexander
- Projector by Shreekumar Varma
- Владимир Маяковский – При свободной торговле… (Главполитпросвет №232)
- sadness from the night by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Британишский – Унифицированный современный поэт
- Владимир Маяковский – Вопль кустаря
- New York at Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits by William Shakespeare
- A Hermit Thrush poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Between The Wars by Robert Hass
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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.