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
- Яков Полонский – Ночь на восточном берегу Черного моря
- Владимир Корнилов – Игра судьбы
- Bring Us The Light by John Oxenham
- Afternoon Rain in State Street poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Карамзин – Часто здесь в юдоли мрачной
- Easter Hymn
- Николай Некрасов – Во вражде неостывающей
- Start Growing by Rixa White
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Я для песни задушевной
- A Scot To Jeanne D’Arc poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Man Young And Old: I. First Love by William Butler Yeats
- Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
- The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille
- The First Part: Sonnet 11 – Lamp of heaven’s crystal hall that brings the hours, by William Drummond
- The dawn by Sukumaran Devarajan
Some external links:
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).
