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:
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 44. She Is Far From the Land. Томас Мур.
- The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly by Vachel Lindsay
- Senec. Traged. Ex Thyeste Chor.2 poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- On Female Inconstancy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Владимир Луговской – Пила
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне в душу ступит кто-то посторонний
- Николай Заболоцкий – Детство
- Tom May’s Death poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Только организация урожай умножит… (Главполитпросвет №33)
- News, lassies, news (Song) by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Помощь не придет на такой вой… (Главполитпросвет №14)
- Celia Beeding, To the Surgeon by Thomas Carew
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
- Владимир Корнилов – Старость
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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.