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:
- Composed In The Valley Near Dover, On The Day Of Landing by William Wordsworth
- Николай Гумилев – Зараза
- Sea Song
- Morning Express by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sir Philip Sidney; Astrophel and Stella: XXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- Наталья Шевченко – Прости прости Меня Отец
- Владимир Корнилов – Репертуар
- Юнна Мориц – Ёжик резиновый
- Ок Мельникова – Let it be
- Snarleyow by Rudyard Kipling
- A reason for you by Pritha halder
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- Ольга Ермолаева – Барственный Шехтель все ирисы лепит на фриз
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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.