A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Something spreading underground won’t speak to us
under skin won’t declare itself
not all life-forms want dialogue with the
machine-gods in their drama hogging down
the deep bush clear-cutting refugees
from ancient or transient villages into
our opportunistic fervor to search
crazily for a host a lifeboat
Suddenly instead of art we’re eyeing
organisms traced and stained on cathedral transparencies
cruel blues embroidered purples succinct yellows
a beautiful tumor
•
I guess you’re not alone I fear you’re alone
There’s, of course, poetry:
awful bridge rising over naked air: I first
took it as just a continuation of the road:
“a masterpiece of engineering
praised, etc.” then on the radio:
“incline too steep for ease of, etc.”
Drove it nonetheless because I had to
this being how— So this is how
I find you: alive and more
•
As if (how many conditionals must we suffer?)
I’m driving to your side
—an intimate collusion—
packed in the trunk my bag of foils for fencing with pain
glasses of varying spectrum for sun or fog or sun-struck
rain or bitterest night my sack of hidden
poetries, old glue shredding from their spines
my time exposure of the Leonids
over Joshua Tree
As if we’re going to win this O because
•
If you have a sister I am not she
nor your mother nor you my daughter
nor are we lovers or any kind of couple
except in the intensive care
of poetry and
death’s master plan architecture-in-progress
draft elevations of a black-and-white mosaic dome
the master left on your doorstep
with a white card in black calligraphy:
Make what you will of this
As if leaving purple roses
•
If (how many conditionals must we suffer?)
I tell you a letter from the master
is lying on my own doorstep
glued there with leaves and rain
and I haven’t bent to it yet
if I tell you I surmise
he writes differently to me:
Do as you will, you have had your life
many have not
signing it in his olden script:
Meister aus Deutschland
•
In coldest Europe end of that war
frozen domes iron railings frozen stoves lit in the
streets
memory banks of cold
the Nike of Samothrace
on a staircase wings in blazing
backdraft said to me
: : to everyone she met
Displaced, amputated never discount me
Victory
indented in disaster striding
at the head of stairs
for Tory Dent
A few random poems:
- The End by Sharon Olds
- Hades’ Pitch by Rita Dove
- Mates
- Fault by Sara Teasdale
- Il Penseroso poem – John Milton poems
- Омар Хайям – Красой затмила ты Китая дочерей
- Аля Кудряшева – Когда наступает вечер
- Владимир Маяковский – Письмо Татьяне Яковлевой
- Robert Burns: There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame:
- Владимир Корнилов – Погодинка
- Waking In Winter by Sylvia Plath
- Джон Китс – Чаттертону
- Sumter In Ruins by William Gilmore Simms
- Bliss Of Eternity by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вход воспрещается
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
- Жан де Лафонтен – Садовод и Помещик
- Жан де Лафонтен – Пьяница и Жена его
- Жан де Лафонтен – Предостережение богов Симониду
- Жан де Лафонтен – Павлин, жалующийся Юноне
- Жан де Лафонтен – Осел со священной ношей
- Жан де Лафонтен – Осел и Собака
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел и Сова
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел, Дикая Свинья и Кошка
- Жан де Лафонтен – Обезьяна и Дельфин
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мельник, Сын его и Осел
- Жан де Лафонтен – Львиный указ
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лисица, Мухи и Еж
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лисица и Аист
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лев, сраженный Человеком
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лес и Дровосек
- Жан де Лафонтен – Ласочка в амбаре
- Жан де Лафонтен – Кошка, превращенная в женщину
- Жан де Лафонтен – Карман
- Жан де Лафонтен – Городская и полевая Крысы
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.