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:
- Robert Burns: Anna, Thy Charms:
- E.A. Nov. 6, 1900 by John Oxenham
- Юлий Даниэль – Часовой
- The Slantèn Light O’ Fall by William Barnes
- Гавриил Державин – Поминки
- The Princess: A Medley: Ask me no more poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Another [Epigram On The Said Occasion… On A Henpecked Country Squire]:
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Низами Гянджеви – Другим знавала ты меня
- Olney Hymn 55: The Heart Healed And Changed By Mercy by William Cowper
- On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico by Robert Burns
- Women And Roses by Robert Browning
- Funny Networking Poem and Do’s and Don’ts
- America by Phillis Wheatley
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.