A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?
The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.
A few random poems:
- Linoz Isidoz poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Evasion. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- The One-Legged Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- Шекспир – Мне показалось, что была зима – Сонет 97
- Юлиан Анисимов – Камнем сгрудилась комната
- Robert Burns: Saw Ye Bonie Lesley:
- Nimrod in September by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мой Гамлет
- Birds heavenly by Sunil Sharma
- Ballade Of The Dream poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Баиньки
- Омар Хайям – Мы источник веселья, и скорби рудник
- A Manual, More Ancient Than The Art Of Printing, And Not To Be Found In Any Catalogue by William Cowper
- I See so Deeply Within Myself by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Вероника Тушнова – Тень
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
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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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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.