A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.
Today I was reading about Marie Curie:
she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
her body bombarded for years by the element
she had purified
It seems she denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her eyes
the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power.
A few random poems:
- Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Eclogue:–The Best Man In The Vield by William Barnes
- My November Guest by Robert Frost
- I bring hope and love by Raj Arumugam
- The Comforters by Rudyard Kipling
- Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Bellona. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
- The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- The Ordination by Robert Burns
- Writing Science Poetry
- Senex poem – John Betjeman poems
- Николай Гумилев – Неизгладимы, нет, в моей судьбе
- Points And Lines poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Song Of Faiz Ulla
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
- Calais, August 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Calais, August 15, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- By The Side Of The Grave Some Years After by William Wordsworth
- By The Seaside by William Wordsworth
- “By Moscow Self-Devoted To A Blaze” by William Wordsworth
- “Brook! Whose Society The Poet Seeks” by William Wordsworth
- British Freedom by William Wordsworth
- “Brave Schill! By Death Delivered” by William Wordsworth
- Bothwell Castle by William Wordsworth
- Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] by William Wordsworth
- Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded] by William Wordsworth
- Book Third [Residence at Cambridge] by William Wordsworth
- Book Tenth {Residence in France continued] by William Wordsworth
- Book Sixth [Cambridge and the Alps] by William Wordsworth
- Book Seventh [Residence in London] by William Wordsworth
- Book Second [School-Time Continued] by William Wordsworth
- Book Ninth [Residence in France] by William Wordsworth
- Book Fourth [Summer Vacation] by William Wordsworth
- Book Fourteenth [conclusion] by William Wordsworth
- Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time] by William Wordsworth
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.