Rural Reflections

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.

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random poems:

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 

• Sonnet 08 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Sonnet 07 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Sonnet 06 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Sonnet 05 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Sonnet 04 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Sonnet 03: Canzone poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Sonnet 03 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Sonnet 02 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Sonnet 01 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Song On May Morning poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Samson Agonistes poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 88 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 87 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 86 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 85 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 84 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 83 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 82 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 81 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
• Psalm 80 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works