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.
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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
- Олег Сердобольский – Играли в шахматы слоны
- Олег Сердобольский – Футболист
- Олег Сердобольский – Два кораблика
- Олег Сердобольский – Черная считалка
- Олег Сердобольский – Алмазная снежинка
- Олег Митяев – Француженка
- Олег Мехов – Ах, у нашего Антошки
- Олег Карелин – Фото
- Олег Григорьев – Жена торговала колбасой
- Олег Григорьев – Зажав кузнечика в руке
- Олег Григорьев – Зашли мы к Сизову с приятелем
- Олег Григорьев – Яма
- Олег Григорьев – Я взял бумагу и перо
- Олег Григорьев – Я спросил электрика Петрова
- Олег Григорьев – Я сам себя в пальто одел
- Олег Григорьев – Я дверь в коридор отворил
- Олег Григорьев – Вперед не рвись
- Олег Григорьев – Вкусно от меда во рте
- Олег Григорьев – Вечером девочка Мила
- Олег Григорьев – Увязался М. за Ж.
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.