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:
- Canto I poem – Ezra Pound poems
- To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley
- Алишер Навои – Моя безумная душа в обломках
- Muhammad by Mahmoud Darwish
- Us Two by AA Milne
- Crossing The Water by Sylvia Plath
- The Flash Reverses Time poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface by William Shakespeare
- Iva’s Pantoum by Marilyn Hacker
- Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice by Robert Burns
- Аля Кудряшева – Я этой ночью уйду, не спи
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- False Friends-Like by William Barnes
- Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Gravy Train by Michael Levy
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.