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
- The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
- Оливер Голдсмит – Пыл упований людям дан
- The Cobweb by Raymond Carver
- His Excellency General Washington by Phillis Wheatley
- The Window Freäm’d Wi’ Stwone by William Barnes
- John Keats – John Keats Poems
- Иида Дакоцу – Розу покинув
- Sonnet XI. On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer poem – John Keats poems
- Юлия Друнина – Я горожанка
- Landscape At The End Of The Century by Stephen Dunn
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- Омар Хайям – Мы влюбчивая голь, здесь нету мусульман
- After Years by Ted Kooser
- To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope
- Apple-Blossoms by Will McKendree Carleton
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).
