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 Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Языков – Е. А. Свербеевой (Мысль неразгульного поэта)
- Виктор Гончаров – Больной, как будто бы гранату
- Юнна Мориц – Ручеек
- Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- By Philemon by William Cowper
- Birdsong by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Princess (part 5) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
- Владимир Высоцкий – В этом доме большом раньше пьянка была
- The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
- Happy Dust poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- America by Phillis Wheatley
- A Hundred Years Hence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.