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 Hock-cart, or Harvest Home by Robert Herrick
- greek_light.html
- The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- The Snowy Spring Is Raging Mad poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- In a Sombre Mood by Satish Verma
- Олег Сердобольский – У сосульки льет из носа
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- An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour by Robert Herrick
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- So Long! by Precious Tahula
- Ольга Берггольц – Старая гвардия
- Birth Story by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Степанов – Потемнели ветви
- Bond and Free by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear by William Shakespeare
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.html
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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.