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:
- Robert Burns: To Miss Ferrier: Enclosing the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair.
- Never Bite A Married Woman On The Thigh by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тот, кто раньше с нею был
- Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Vision of the Archangels. Руперт Брук.
- Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand. by Walt Whitman
- Doom’s Day by Satish Verma
- Олег Сердобольский – Зимний кот
- To Ailsa Rock poem – John Keats poems
- Юрий Верховский – Есть имена, таинственны и стары
- Алексей Жемчужников – Ты прав
- Иван Бунин – Нет солнца, но светлы пруды
- Haiku: January by Monty Gilmer
- Hauntings by Rupert Brooke
- Иван Мятлев – Старушка
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.