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:
- Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- Федор Тютчев – Анненковой (D’une fille du Nord, chetive et languissante)
- The Tiger039s Roar
- София Парнок – Белой ночью
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне каждый вечер зажигают свечи
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Flying Wishes by Osman cisse Hanif
- The Mantra-Yoga poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Нина Гаген-Торн – День мой в труде тяжелом
- Олег Бундур – Август
- A Paumanok Picture. by Walt Whitman
- Corona by Paul Celan
- Morning by Mark R Slaughter
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
- Вера Павлова – Подарил мне жизнь
- Вера Павлова – По счету
- Вера Павлова – Плачу, потому что не можешь со мной жить
- Вера Павлова – Перед дальней дорогой
- Вера Павлова – Память, дырявый мешок
- Вера Павлова – Отпала от пола
- Вера Павлова – Они влюблены и счастливы
- Вера Павлова – Объятье
- Вера Павлова – О чем
- Вера Павлова – Нежность больше не делится
- Вера Павлова – Нет, нет, не ревность
- Вера Павлова – Жизнь в посудной лавке
- Вера Павлова – Зеркало по природе правдиво
- Вера Павлова – Завещание
- Вера Павлова – Заплетала косички
- Вера Павлова – за руку здороваться с рекой
- Вера Павлова – Я дождевой червь
- Вера Павлова – Всходить на костёр Жанною
- Вера Павлова – Время уступать место
- Вера Павлова – Время бежит на время
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.