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:
- Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare
- Heroic Simile by Robert Hass
- Robert Burns: On Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday:
- Николай Гумилев – Она говорила
- Sumter In Ruins by William Gilmore Simms
- Степан Щипачев – Опять тревожно, больно сердцу стало
- Ode to Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
- Death Of Captain Cooke, by William Lisle Bowles
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мартовский Заяц
- The Symptoms of Love by William Cowper
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Psalm 80 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Пятый интернационал
- A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Faery Song by William Butler Yeats
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.