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:
- To a Gentleman, Who Married His Cast Mistress by William Somervile
- Олег Сердобольский – Мошка Машка
- The Love That Goes A-Begging by Sara Teasdale
- black_on_black.html
- Attitude To A Miss by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Иван Бунин – Норд-ост
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- Dusk In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Aubade by William Shakespeare
- A Boston Ballad, 1854. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: The Deil’s Awa Wi’ The Exciseman:
- Epitaph For Fire And Flower by Sylvia Plath
- Eclogue:–John An’ Thomas by William Barnes
- On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. by Thom Gunn
- In The Village Of My Ancestors by Vasko Popa
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
- From The Frontier Of Writing by Seamus Heaney
- Follower by Seamus Heaney
- Exposure by Seamus Heaney
- Docker by Seamus Heaney
- Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
- Casualty by Seamus Heaney
- Bogland by Seamus Heaney
- Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
- Act of Union by Seamus Heaney
- Winters!!! by Aditya Kumar
- The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
- Winters!!! by Aditya Kumar
- On the Idle Hill of Summer by A. E. Housman
- The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
- On the Idle Hill of Summer by A. E. Housman
- Broken wings of a Heart by Saajida Gora
- Being Underwater by Sahiti Siddharth
- Awake by Sara Herlihy
- Attitude: Don Juan in the Shopping Mall by S. K. Kelen
- Aspirations by SAAJIDA GORA
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.