A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave:
the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain
the poster in the bus that said:
my bleeding is under control
A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt: the language is a dialect called metaphor.
These images go unglossed: hair, glacier, flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
I could say: those mountains have a meaning
but further than that I could not say.
To do something very common, in my own way.
A few random poems:
- The Disquieting Muses by Sylvia Plath
- Best Society by Philip Larkin
- Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? by William Shakespeare
- Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter By My Sister by William Wordsworth
- The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
- For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost
- Федор Сологуб – Словно лепится сурепица
- Ольга Берггольц – О да, простые, бедные слова
- A Christmas Carol by William Topaz McGonagall
- Epigram on the said Occasion by Robert Burns
- The Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Виктор Гончаров – Больной, как будто бы гранату
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
- Robert Burns: Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?:
- Robert Burns: Versified Reply To An Invitation:
- Robert Burns: To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline,: Recommending a Boy.
- Robert Burns: Despondency: An Ode:
- Robert Burns: Home.:
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- Robert Burns: To Ruin:
- Robert Burns: To A Mountain Daisy: On turning down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
- Robert Burns: Ploughman’s Life, The:
- Robert Burns: Montgomerie’s Peggy:
- Robert Burns: Epistle To The Rev. John M’math: Inclosing A Copy Of “Holy Willie’s Prayer,” Which He Had Requested
- Robert Burns: Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear: Paraphrase of Jeremiah, 15th Chap., 10th verse
- Robert Burns: Third Epistle To J. Lapraik:
- Robert Burns: The Holy Fair:
- Robert Burns: Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock: Author Of The Gospel Recovered.
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux:
- Robert Burns: Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin:
- Robert Burns: Tho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part:
- Robert Burns: One Night As I Did Wander:
- Robert Burns: Second Epistle To J. Lapraik:
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.