A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.
Today I was reading about Marie Curie:
she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
her body bombarded for years by the element
she had purified
It seems she denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her eyes
the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power.
A few random poems:
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- Couplets on Wit poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Бундур – Первый пирог
- Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
- Our Whole Life
- Robert Burns: The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle:
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Юлия Друнина – Я, признаться, сберечь не сумела шинели
- Федор Сологуб – В норе темно и мглисто
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Василий Жуковский – Дружба
- Владимир Маяковский – Все на фронт добровольцами! Пока… (РОСТА)
- Алексей Жемчужников – Верста на старой дороге
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (В избушке позднею порою)
- Written in London. September, 1802 by William Wordsworth
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.