A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Three hours chain-smoking words
and you move on. We stand in the porch,
two archaic figures: a woman and a man.
The old masters, the old sources,
haven’t a clue what we’re about,
shivering here in the half-dark sixties.
Our minds hover in a famous impasse
and cling together. Your hand
grips mine like a railing on an icy night.
The wall of the house is bleeding. Firethorn!
The moon, cracked every which-way.
pushes steadily on.
A few random poems:
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- Валерий Брюсов – К.А. Коровину (Душа твоя, быть может, ослепительней)
- Вероника Тушнова – В чем отказала я тебе
- Lines on the Fall of Fyers by Robert Burns
- Аля Кудряшева – Ну что я могу ответить
- On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell by Phillis Wheatley
- V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander
- The Garden By Moonlight poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 2. by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Южная ночь
- Низами Гянджеви – Пускай охотится на всех газелеоких
- The moon at noon by Tom Mukasa
- Sonnet # 9 by Luis A. Estable
- 10 Valentine’s Day Scrapbooking Ideas With or Without Photos
- Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper by Sylvia Plath
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.