A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
It will not be simple, it will not take long
It will take little time, it will take all your thought
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple
It will touch through your ribs, it will take all your heart
It will not take long, it will occupy all your thought
As a city is occupied, as a bed is occupied
It will take your flesh, it will not be simple
You are coming into us who cannot withstand you
You are coming into us who never wanted to withstand you
You are taking parts of us into places never planned
You are going far away with pieces of our lives
It will be short, it will take all your breath
It will not be simple, it will become your will
A few random poems:
- A Tale of Starvation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Rainbow by Ria De Torres
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! by Walt Whitman
- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness poem – Alexander Pope
- Why Feed The Early Signs Of Boredom? poem – Alexander Pushkin
- To the Garden the World. by Walt Whitman
- Алексей Толстой – В колокол, мирно дремавший, с налета тяжелая бомба
- Жан де Лафонтен – Третейский Судья, Брат милосердия и Пустынник
- Orlando Furioso Canto 6 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Give Me Back My Rags #11 by Vasko Popa
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Frog’s Choice by William Somervile
- Teacher
- Robert Burns: My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet:
- The Old Cumberland Beggar by William Wordsworth
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.