A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
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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
- Юнна Мориц – Балтийское лето
- Юнна Мориц – Астры
- Юнна Мориц – Античная картина
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Утренние песни
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Твой знак пред жизнью
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Тополь
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ткач
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Светлая заутреня
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Стучись, упорствуя, Кирка
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Средь бега дней моих порой
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Соме le onde
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Перевал
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Скрябина
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Александра Цатуриана
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отторженность
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отчаяние
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Осенняя песня
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Одиночество
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Новогоднее видение
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночью
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.