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:
- How to Earn Money Writing and Selling Books
- Федор Сологуб – Лежу и дышу осторожно
- Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness by William Shakespeare
- On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost
- Новелла Матвеева – Есть вопиющий быт, есть вещие примеры
- A Watch Sent Home To Mrs. Eliz: King, Wrapt In Theis Verses by William Strode
- Валерий Брюсов – Из детской книжки
- The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Middle of the World by Samuel Hazo
- Владимир Британишский – Быт
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
- Василий Жуковский – К Перовскому (Счастливец, ею ты любим)
- EVENING… by R.M. Engelhardt
- Points And Lines
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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.