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:
- Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Степанов – Наша Армия
- Михаил Лермонтов – А. А. Олениной (Ах! Анна Алексевна)
- Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope
- Remorseful Apology by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – П. Н. Шепелеву (Ты мой приятель задушевной)
- Wreath For A Bridal by Sylvia Plath
- Move Eastward, Happy Earth poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Sent For A Token by William Strode
- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
- Feroza
- American Feuillage. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Лежит камень в степи
- Владимир Вишневский – Как некстати или срыв спецоперации
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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.