A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Stripped
you’re beginning to float free
up through the smoke of brushfires
and incinerators
the unleafed branches won’t hold you
nor the radar aerials
You’re what the autumn knew would happen
after the last collapse
of primary color
once the last absolutes were torn to pieces
you could begin
How you broke open, what sheathed you
until this moment
I know nothing about it
my ignorance of you amazes me
now that I watch you
starting to give yourself away
to the wind
A few random poems:
- Postscript by Seamus Heaney
- In the Name of Eternal Love by Walter William Safar
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько я, сколько я видел на свете их
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Маяковский – Нас шахтер углем поздравит… (РОСТА)
- may each find the peace within by Raj Arumugam
- Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
- For Anne Gregory by William Butler Yeats
- The Passing of the Elder Bards by William Wordsworth
- Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire by Robert Burns
- How To Use Vellum For Your Card Making Ideas
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- Fragmentary Blue by Robert Frost
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Global Warning by Mike Yuan
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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.