A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Stripped
you’re beginning to float free
up through the smoke of brushfires
and incinerators
the unleafed branches won’t hold you
nor the radar aerials
You’re what the autumn knew would happen
after the last collapse
of primary color
once the last absolutes were torn to pieces
you could begin
How you broke open, what sheathed you
until this moment
I know nothing about it
my ignorance of you amazes me
now that I watch you
starting to give yourself away
to the wind
A few random poems:
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Британишский – Но особенно снился мне вздыбленный мост
- Revenge of the Ghost of the Betrayed Husband by Raj Arumugam
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- Blackmwore Maidens by William Barnes
- Spring – The First Pastoral ; or Damon poem – Alexander Pope
- Николай Заболоцкий – Офорт
- Femme Fatale by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Leaves A-Vallèn by William Barnes
- Владимир Высоцкий – В тюрьме Таганской нас стало мало
- Anarchy by Satish Verma
- Владимир Корнилов – Достается, наверно, непросто
- Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- I like to let the word fly about by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Young Love poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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.