A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
My mouth hovers across your breasts
in the short grey winter afternoon
in this bed we are delicate
and touch so hot with joy we amaze ourselves
tough and delicate we play rings
around each other our daytime candle burns
with its peculiar light and if the snow
begins to fall outside filling the branches
and if the night falls without announcement
there are the pleasures of winter
sudden, wild and delicate your fingers
exact my tongue exact at the same moment
stopping to laugh at a joke
my love hot on your scent on the cusp of winter
A few random poems:
- When You Go Away by W. S. Merwin
- София Парнок – И голос окликнул тебя среди ночи
- Ольга Седакова – Деревья, сильный ветер
- Shaftesbury Feäir by William Barnes
- Lovers by Siegfried Sassoon
- The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) by Olivia Lewis
- Aeolian Harp by William Allingham
- Vacant Lot With Pokeweed poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Memory by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: My Peggy’s Charms:
- The Princess: A Medley: O Swallow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Details Are poem – Zhivka Baltadzhieva poems | Poetry Monster
- The Cleaving by Samuel Hazo
- Николай Языков – Элегия (День ненастный, темный; тучи)
- The Land by Rudyard Kipling
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.