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:
- Оливер Голдсмит – Оленья туша
- Василий Жуковский – К Дмитриеву (Нет, не прошла)
- Ольга Ермолаева – Барственный Шехтель все ирисы лепит на фриз
- A Voice
- Written In The Cottage Where Burns Was Born poem – John Keats poems
- The Nautical Why poem – Amy Nawrocki poems | Poems and Poetry
- Нина Воронель – Запахи детства еще не забыты
- Михаил Лермонтов – Челнок (Воет ветр и свистит пред недальной грозой)
- Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Василий Казин – Каменщик
- Валерий Брюсов – И он взглянул, и ты уснула, и он ушел, и умер день
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair by William Shakespeare
- On The University Carrier Who Sickn’d In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague poem – John Milton poems
- Gazel poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Call It Music by Philip Levine
- Black Stone On Top Of Nothing by Philip Levine
- Bitterness by Philip Levine
- Berenda Slough by Philip Levine
- Belle Isle, 1949 by Philip Levine
- At Bessemer by Philip Levine
- Any Night by Philip Levine
- Another Song by Philip Levine
- Animals Are Passing From Our Lives by Philip Levine
- An Abandoned Factory, Detroit by Philip Levine
- Among Children by Philip Levine
- A Woman Waking by Philip Levine
- A Theory Of Prosody by Philip Levine
- A Sleepless Night by Philip Levine
- Sonnet III: With how sad steps by Sir Philip Sidney
- Sonnet II: Not At First Sight by Sir Philip Sidney
- Sonnet I: Loving In Truth by Sir Philip Sidney
- Song from Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney
- Song by Sir Philip Sidney
- Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.