It is an old story, the way it happens
sometimes in winter, sometimes not.
The listener falls to sleep,
the doors to the closets of his unhappiness open
and into his room the misfortunes come —
death by daybreak, death by nightfall,
their wooden wings bruising the air,
their shadows the spilled milk the world cries over.
There is a need for surprise endings;
the green field where cows burn like newsprint,
where the farmer sits and stares,
where nothing, when it happens, is never terrible enough.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Tatiana’s Letter poem – Alexander Pushkin
- You and I by Roger McGough
- betrayal.html
- William Strode – William Strode
- Get together by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Brockley Coomb by Samuel Coleridge
- The Unseen by Sara Teasdale
- The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet IX by William Shakespeare
- Moonsong At Morning by Sylvia Plath
- The Fall by Russell Edson
- In Me, Past, Present, Future meet by Siegfried Sassoon
- Afternoon Rain in State Street poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart: With The Lament On The Death Of the Earl Of Glencairn
- Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change by William Shakespeare
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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).
