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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- Song—Behold, my love, how green the groves by Robert Burns
- Study of an Elevation, In Indian Ink by Rudyard Kipling
- My Dear Old Mother by Walter William Safar
- Юнна Мориц – На Трафальгарской площади ночной
- Civilian and Soldier by Wole Soyinka
- Dinner Date by P.J.Reed
- Николай Гумилев – Когда я был влюблен
- Николай Языков – Дом сумасшедших в Дерпте
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени 9
- Иван Мятлев – Звезда
- interpret_the_light.html
- Омар Хайям – Неправ, кто думает, что бог неумолим
- In Drear-Nighted December poem – John Keats poems
- Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss by Sylvia Plath
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
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.