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:
- Buddha by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки (Милкой мне в подарок бурка…)
- Аля Кудряшева – Ты рисуй, девочка, небо пошире
- Hymns Of The Marshes. by Sidney Lanier
- On The Dunes by Sara Teasdale
- From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Flower-Gathering by Robert Frost
- My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Robert Burns: Montgomerie’s Peggy:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Переселение
- The Hermit poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Infernal Regions
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Ballad Third – John Bushby’s Lamentation.
- Morning Rain by Tu Fu
- Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.