A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
This is the grass your feet are planted on.
You paint it orange or you sing it green,
But you have never found
A way to make the grass mean what you mean.
A cloud can be whatever you intend:
Ostrich or leaning tower or staring eye.
But you have never found
A cloud sufficient to express the sky.
Get out there with your splendid expertise;
Raymond who cuts the meadow does not less.
Inhuman nature says:
Inhuman patience is the true success.
Human impatience trips you as you run;
Stand still and you must lie.
It is the grass that cuts the mower down;
It is the cloud that swallows up the sky.
A few random poems:
- Lying on a Slab by Satish Verma
- A Ripple Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove poem – John Keats poems
- Animation by Satish Verma
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- Омар Хайям – Не бойтесь дарить согревающих слов
- Владимир Маяковский – Офицер! Смотри на эту саблю (РОСТА)
- Did Shakespeare write his own plays and poems?
- The Lark by William Barnes
- Омар Хайям – Когда к жизни Любовь меня в мир призвала
- Степан Щипачев – По дороге в совхоз
- On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn by Robert Burns
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись благоверному и Великому князю Александру Невскому
- Praying Hurriedly by Satish Verma
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.