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:
- Sonet 54 by William Alexander
- Orlando Furioso Canto 11 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Вера Полозкова – Декабрь
- Наталья Шевченко – Он не в себе
- Алишер Навои – Словно зеркало, сияет лик твой
- Владимир Высоцкий – Куплеты нечистой силы
- Thistles by Ted Hughes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не возьмут и невзгоды в крутой оборот…
- A Faery Song by William Butler Yeats
- Strumpet Song by Sylvia Plath
- Алексей Толстой – Уж ты нива моя, нивушка
- A Minor Bird by Robert Frost
- Омар Хайям – Что я дружу с вином, не отрицаю, нет
- A Saint Between Us by Satish Verma
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё с себя снимаю, слишком душно
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 Journey Through The Moonlight by Russell Edson
- Antimatter by Russell Edson
- A Stone Is Nobody’s by Russell Edson
- Counting Sheep by Russell Edson
- Sleep by Russell Edson
- Paying The Captain by Russell Edson
- Grass by Russell Edson
- Angels by Russell Edson
- Ape by Russell Edson
- Hands by Russell Edson
- The Fall by Russell Edson
- The Family Monkey by Russell Edson
- Elephant Dormitory by Russell Edson
- Conjugal by Russell Edson
- A Historical Breakfast by Russell Edson
- The Essay on Liberty by Abraham Cowley
- Hauntings by Rupert Brooke
- Goddess In The Wood, The by Rupert Brooke
- Flight by Rupert Brooke
- Finding by Rupert Brooke
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.