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:
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- The Best Time Of The Day by Raymond Carver
- English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Broken Heart. Уильям Барнс.
- Ianthe’s Question by Walter Savage Landor
- Ярослав Смеляков – Вот опять ты мне вспомнилась, мама
- Ок Мельникова – Не горим, не светим
- Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid by William Shakespeare
- Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain by William Wordsworth
- Новелла Матвеева – Я, говорит, не воин
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ночная смена
- Leda And The Swan by William Butler Yeats
- Arcady Unheeding by Siegfried Sassoon
- Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems
- A Dream Of England 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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.