A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?
The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.
A few random poems:
- Алексей Толстой – С тех пор как я один
- Untitled XVII by Yunus Emre
- Guinevere poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Валерий Брюсов – Газели
- What Was Lost by William Butler Yeats
- Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Robert Burns: O Can Ye Labour Lea?:
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия – страна земледельческая… (РОСТА №874)
- Николай Некрасов – В полном разгаре страда деревенская
- Sunday Morning Blues poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- I am a sculptor, a molder of form by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope
- Джон Мильтон – По случаю своего двадцатитрехлетия
- Новелла Матвеева – Пушкин
- Under Cover of Night by Robert Desnos
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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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.