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:
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- Whatif by Shel Silverstein
- Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not by William Shakespeare
- Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig by Robert Burns
- Father Divine poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Ненавистью древней… (РОСТА № 198)
- The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux poem – A. E. Housman
- The Princess (The Conclusion) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Ольга Ермолаева – Барственный Шехтель все ирисы лепит на фриз
- Владимир Степанов – Осы
- Владимир Маяковский – Чаеуправление (реклама)
- Beautiful Lofty Things by William Butler Yeats
- The Rose Of Peace by William Butler Yeats
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Sonnet CXXXII 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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.