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 Kiss: A Dialogue by Robert Herrick
- Sweet Music In The Wind by William Barnes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне каждый вечер зажигают свечи
- Alone In The Woods by Stevie Smith
- The French Army In Russia, 1812-13 by William Wordsworth
- Burns’s Statue At Irvine poem – Alfred Austin
- Considering The Snail by Thom Gunn
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 poem – John Milton poems
- May-Night by William Ellery Leonard
- Омар Хайям – Что плоть твоя, Хайям?
- Жан де Лафонтен – Садовод и Помещик
- To R. B. poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – О милый друг, как внятен голос твой
- The Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Корнилов – Чтение
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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.