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:
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам говорят без всякой лести
- Владимир Маяковский – Все на фронт добровольцами! Пока… (РОСТА)
- Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- The Booker Washington Trilogy by Vachel Lindsay
- On Calais Sands poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
- A Poem For Ashleigh (July) by Stevens Cadet
- The Constellations by William Cullen Bryant
- XVI: Some Verses: Of Conquerouris by William Alexander
- Addressed To Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Федор Сологуб – Купол церкви, крест и небо
- All Things Can Tempt Me by William Butler Yeats
- “The Curtains Now Are Drawn” by Thomas Hardy
- “What ails you, Ocean, that nor near nor far” poem – Alfred Austin
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
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.