A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say: Be kinder to yourself
but you were sick and would not answer
The waste of my love goes on this way
trying to save you from yourself
I have always wondered about the left-over
energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill
long after the rains have stopped
or the fire you want to go to bed from
but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down
the red coals more extreme, more curious
in their flashing and dying
than you wish they were
sitting long after midnight
A few random poems:
- Владимир Костров – Вот женщина с седыми волосами
- Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication by Robert Burns
- Василий Тредиаковский – В белости ее румяной
- Female ghost in the moonlight by Raj Arumugam
- We know this much by Sappho
- A Tribute to Henry M. Stanley by William Topaz McGonagall
- A Father’s Hands by Scott Ransopher
- Chronicle
- The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
- Incense by Vachel Lindsay
- The Hedger by William Barnes
- After the Last Glacier is Gone by Benjamin Alva Polley
- Battalion-Relief by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Manor Garden by Sylvia Plath
- The Elms poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Dumb poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Dionysus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Colophon poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Boo to Buddha poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Ave Adonai poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Au Bal poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Athor and Asar poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- At Sea poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- At Bordj-an-Nus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Arhan poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- An Oath poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Adela poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
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- The School of Night
- The Return of Persephone
- The Pleasure of Princes
- The Gateway
- The Commination
- Standardization
- Phallus
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.