A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave:
the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain
the poster in the bus that said:
my bleeding is under control
A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt: the language is a dialect called metaphor.
These images go unglossed: hair, glacier, flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
I could say: those mountains have a meaning
but further than that I could not say.
To do something very common, in my own way.
A few random poems:
- Where Shall We Go? by Vernon Scannell
- Last Words poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Inventory by Robert Burns
- Einstein Defining Special Relativity poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Порука
- Юрий Коринец – Отцовская песня
- The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Счастье искусств
- Terminal by Sylvia Plath
- Race of Veterans. by Walt Whitman
- Виктор Гончаров – Дождь
- Шекспир – Люби другого – Сонет 139
- Sir Galahad poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Прямота
- Blue Evening by Rupert Brooke
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
- Fancy poem – John Keats poems
- Epistle To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
- Endymion: Book IV poem – John Keats poems
- Endymion: Book III poem – John Keats poems
- Endymion: Book II poem – John Keats poems
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems
- Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’ poem – John Keats poems
- Addressed To Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) poem – John Keats poems
- When the Assault Was Intended to the City poem – John Milton poems
- Upon The Circumcision poem – John Milton poems
- To the Same poem – John Milton poems
- To The Nightingale poem – John Milton poems
- To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 poem – John Milton poems
- To the Lady Margaret Ley poem – John Milton poems
- To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems
- To My Lord Fairfax poem – John Milton poems
- To Mr. Lawrence poem – John Milton poems
- To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs poem – John Milton poems
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
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.