Two Songs – The Poetry Monster

A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)

1.

Sex, as they harshly call it,

I fell into this morning

at ten o’clock, a drizzling hour

of traffic and wet newspapers.

I thought of him who yesterday

clearly didn’t

turn me to a hot field

ready for plowing,

and longing for that young man

pierced me to the roots

bathing every vein, etc.

All day he appears to me

touchingly desirable,

a prize one could wreck one’s peace for.

I’d call it love if love

didn’t take so many years

but lust too is a jewel

a sweet flower and what

pure happiness to know

all our high-toned questions

breed in a lively animal.

2.

That “old last act”!

And yet sometimes

all seems post coitum triste

and I a mere bystander.

Somebody else is going off,

getting shot to the moon.

Or a moon-race!

Split seconds after

my opposite number lands

I make it–

we lie fainting together

at a crater-edge

heavy as mercury in our moonsuits

till he speaks–

in a different language

yet one I’ve picked up

through cultural exchanges…

we murmur the first moonwords:

Spasibo. Thanks. O.K.

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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English

Fancy poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Epistle To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Endymion: Book IV poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Endymion: Book III poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Endymion: Book II poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’ poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
Addressed To Haydon poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) poem – John Keats poems by John Keats
When the Assault Was Intended to the City poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
Upon The Circumcision poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To the Same poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To The Nightingale poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To the Lady Margaret Ley poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To My Lord Fairfax poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To Mr. Lawrence poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs poem – John Milton poems by John Milton
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness 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.

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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.

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