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:
- Sonnet 08
- Николай Заболоцкий – Новый быт
- Brought From Beyond poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Hanging Man by Sylvia Plath
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Francis II, King of Naples poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To A Castillan Song by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Гумилев – За часом час бежит и падает во тьму
- Низами Гянджеви – Я бросил молодость в пожар моей любви
- Lady Clare poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul:
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 3 к статуе Петра Великого
- OFF-LIMITS by Satish Verma
- Violet Beauregarde… by Roald Dahl
- The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.