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:
- Silver Wedding by Vernon Scannell
- A New Year’s Gift, Sent To Sir Simeon Steward by Robert Herrick
- Song—A Health to ane I loe dear by Robert Burns
- To a Commencement of Scoundrels by Samuel Hazo
- By The Side Of The Grave Some Years After by William Wordsworth
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
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- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
- A New Age by W H Auden
- On An Old Woman (From The Greek) by William Cowper
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- Ольга Берггольц – Потеряла я вечером слово
- On An Infant (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- The Titanic poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
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.