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:
- Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden
- Михаил Лермонтов – Чума в Саратове
- The beauty of the heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Юлия Друнина – Убивали молодость мою
- Зинаида Александрова – Песня моряков
- The Laird Of Waristoun poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: Here’s A Health To Them That’s Awa:
- Scenes Of The Mind poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
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- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- 我的妻子。 安德烈·布勒東一首關於自由戀愛的詩
- My Invisible Valentine by Nin Andrews
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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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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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.