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:
- Drinking-Song, A. To a Formal, Proud, Sober Coxcomb by William Wycherley
- Hymn To Light
- Lets go by Vinko Kalinić
- Only in my dreams by Nina Gabriel
- Fleeting Thoughts by Mac McGovern
- Илона Грошева – Ира
- Владимир Набоков – И видел я, стемнели неба своды
- Валерий Брюсов – Дрожащие листья на бледные щеки
- The Lime-tree Bower my Prison by Samuel Coleridge
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Алишер Навои – Чудесные свершения середины жизни
- A Hermit Thrush poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юлия Друнина – Все грущу о шинели
- In A Time Of Dearth poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Cottage Hospital poem – John Betjeman poems
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.