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:
- Friendship poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Юлия Друнина – Я горожанка
- “`If you were mine, if you were mine” poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st by William Shakespeare
- No! by Thomas Hood
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond
- Robert Burns: Where Are The Joys I have Met?:
- Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride? by William Shakespeare
- A Jewish Family In A Small Valley Opposite St. Goar, Upon The Rhine by William Wordsworth
- The Time I Like Best by Roger McGough
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Вероника Тушнова – Знаешь ли ты, что такое горе
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Весёлый воробей
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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.