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:
- Portrait in Black and White by Marjorie Kanter
- Вера Звягинцева – Стоишь, не поднимая глаз
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Carol of Harvest, for 1867 by Walt Whitman
- The New House A-Gettèn’ Wold by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: O Let Me In Thes Ae Night:
- The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
- He’s on the porch by Yosa Buson
- The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
- Cyprian, in my dream by Sappho
- Федор Сологуб – Купол церкви, крест и небо
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Семик
- Кондратий Рылеев – Князю Смоленскому
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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.