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 Высоцкий – Иван да Марья
- The Wound-Dresser by Walt Whitman
- England’s Answer by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Седакова – В винном отделе
- A Crimson Carpet by Pamela Griffiths
- 5 Top Sources of Inspiration That Will Help You Become a Successful Entrepreneur
- Валерий Брюсов – Исполненное обещание романтическая поэма
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне в душу ступит кто-то посторонний
- Омар Хайям – Моя любовь к тебе достигла совершенства
- Sonnet : To Eva by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: There Was A Bonie Lass:
- The Fairy’s Gift poem – Andrew Lang poems
- An Incantation by Thomas Moore
- To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain by Phillis Wheatley
- Lady Anne Bothwell’s Lament poem – Andrew Lang poems
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.