The January Birds
by Maurice Riordan
The birds in Nunhead Cemetery begin
Before I’ve flicked a switch, turned on the gas.
There must be some advantage to the light
I tell myself, viewing my slackened chin
Mirrored in the rain-dark window glass,
While from the graveyard’s trees, the birds begin.
An image from a dream survives the night,
Some dreck my head refuses to encompass.
There must be some advantage to the light.
You are you I mouth to my shadow skin,
Though you are me, assuming weight and mass —
While from the graveyard’s trees, the birds begin:
Thrush, blackbird, finch — then rooks take fright
At a skip-truck and protest, cawing en masse.
There must be some advantage to the light,
Or birds would need the gift of second sight
To sing Another year will come to pass!
The birds in Nunhead Cemetery begin,
There must be some advantage to the light.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Ballade Of Old Plays poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Love In Reverse by Talha Jafri
- The Little Worold by William Barnes
- Николай Заболоцкий – Обводной канал
- Новелла Матвеева – Будьте, как дети
- que-sera-sera.html
- Weak by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Michael Angelo In Reply To The Passage Upon His Staute Of Sleeping Night by William Wordsworth
- Joe Biden, a Ghazal
- Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39
- Владимир Маяковский – Нас потеснили… (РОСТА №337)
- On Mrs. Montague’s Feather Hangings by William Cowper
- The Boy by William Henry Davies
- The Dirge of Wallace by Thomas Campbell
- Sonnet Ii
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
