A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Miracle’s truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.
Take what’s still given: in a room’s rich shadow
a woman’s breasts swinging lightly as she bends.
Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves.
Late, you sit weighing the evening news,
fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions,
the rest of your heart.
A few random poems:
- The Soul’s Prayer by Sarojini Naidu
- Balloons by Sylvia Plath
- A Pretty Woman by Robert Browning
- Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art by William Shakespeare
- Олег Бундур – После дождя
- The Peacock by William Butler Yeats
- Ольга Седакова – Прибавления к “Старым песням”
- The Best Blues Songs Ever
- Омар Хайям – Если гурия страстно целует в уста
- Cold by Witt Wittmann
- Here Dead We Lie poem – A. E. Housman
- To R. B. poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Ок Мельникова – Блюз-16
- Street Cries by Sarojini Naidu
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
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
- Ок Мельникова – All I want, all I need
- Ок Мельникова – 3. 45 a. m
- Огюст Барбье – Жертвы
- Огюст Барбье – Зеленая Дева
- Огюст Барбье – Хвала Хафизу
- Огюст Барбье – Видимость
- Огюст Барбье – Васильки
- Огюст Барбье – Тициан
- Огюст Барбье – Собачий пир
- Огюст Барбье – Шекспир
- Огюст Барбье – Сегодня я в пути
- Огюст Барбье – Роберт Эммет
- Огюст Барбье – Рафаэль
- Огюст Барбье – Прогресс
- Огюст Барбье – Покинутый
- Огюст Барбье – Отъезд
- Огюст Барбье – Ни кротостью, ни негой ясной
- Огюст Барбье – Мельпомена
- Огюст Барбье – Мазаччио
- Огюст Барбье – Любовь к песням
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.