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:
- Шекспир – Считать часы и спрашивать – Сонет 58
- To E.S. Salomon poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Сердобольский – Кузнечик
- The Handsome Heart poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот молочный налог… (Главполитпросвет №217)
- Out over the Forth (Song) by Robert Burns
- Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats. by Walt Whitman
- Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Freedom Of Poetry by Ndue Ukaj
- OFF-LIMITS by Satish Verma
- Владимир Гиляровский – Белоснежные туманы
- A Light Woman by Robert Browning
- Владимир Маяковский – Венера Милосская и Вячеслав Полонский
- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn by William Shakespeare
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
- Nominalism Is A Liquid Kuhi
- My Mother’s Grief
- If Truth In Hearts That Perish
- I Havent Betrayed You My Hometown
- Eclipse Of Love
- Divided Passion
- Death039s Claim
- Dear Bhikkhu A Eulogy
- As With A Senryu S Hardening Ridge
- A Gogyohka And The Forgotten Panopticon
- A Faded Postcard Is A Tanka Daydream
- The Dead Woman poem – Pablo Neruda
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- Diffugere Nives poem – A. E. Housman
- Water Strider
- The Infernal Regions
- Honeycomb
- Dark Matter
- Wet City Night
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.