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:
- On Receiving A Laurel Crown From Leigh Hunt poem – John Keats poems
- To Sayf Al Dawla
- Old well by Yosa Buson
- Ts’ai Chi’h poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Gardener XIV: I Was Walking by the Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- Аля Кудряшева – Невозможно держать в памяти все человечество
- Жан де Лафонтен – Осел и Собака
- You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day poem – A. E. Housman
- Two Songs From A Play by William Butler Yeats
- To L. R. E. by Sara Teasdale
- from The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Омар Хайям – Лучше впасть в нищету, голодать или красть
- Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell
- New Love, New Life poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- A man feared that he might find an assassin by Stephen Crane
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.