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:
- Christmas Trees by Robert Frost
- Владимир Маяковский – Буржуазия и пролетариат стали врагами друг против друга… (Главполитпросвет №19)
- After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden
- София Парнок – Белой ночью
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- Вероника Тушнова – Мать
- Robert Burns: Braw Lads O’ Galla Water:
- Николай Гумилев – Людям будущего
- Grace Before Song poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
- In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Последняя петербургская сказка
- Юрий Котов – Ты что-же боль, меня не отпускаешь
- Sonnet CXIII by William Shakespeare
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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.