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:
- A Garden-Seat At Home by William Lisle Bowles
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale
- The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three by Tristan Tzara
- Life Of a Broke Person by Russell James
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo :
- Broceliande
- Омар Хайям – Кто мне скажет что завтра случится со мной
- The Gardener XLVI: You Left Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Drunkards in the Street by Vachel Lindsay
- Poem on Sensibility by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Уже из-за снежных заносов прекратилось… (РОСТА №774)
- An Afternoon by Raymond Carver
- Straw in the Street poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The King of Yellow Butterflies by Vachel Lindsay
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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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.