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
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- The Gardener LI: Then Finish the Last Song by Rabindranath Tagore
- Вера Полозкова – Есть дерево, в лесу всего древней
- Ballade Of Dead Ladies poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Лежит камень в степи
- Алексей Жемчужников – Возрождение
- Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of — by William Wordsworth
- He, who was born poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Summer – The Second Pastoral; or Alexis poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Shut Not Your Doors, &c. by Walt Whitman
- on our conditioning by Raj Arumugam
- Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands:
- The Dinner-Party poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.