The Woods At Night
by May Swenson
The binocular owl,
fastened to a limb
like a lantern
all night long,
sees where all
the other birds sleep:
towhee under leaves,
titmouse deep
in a twighouse,
sapsucker gripped
to a knothole lip,
redwing in the reeds,
swallow in the willow,
flicker in the oak –
but cannot see poor
whippoorwill
under the hill
in deadbrush nest,
who’s awake, too –
with stricken eye
flayed by the moon
her brindled breast
repeats, repeats, repeats its plea
for cruelty.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Британишский – Этот вечер
- Нина Гаген-Торн – День мой в труде тяжелом
- Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
- Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun. by Walt Whitman
- Аля Кудряшева – Слишком уж зол ветер
- Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Orlando Furioso Canto 8 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Birth Story by Rabindranath Tagore
- Drink of This Cup by Thomas Moore
- Bonie Jean: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- Stans Puer ad Mensam by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Kalli
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Егорий, волчий пастырь
- Epitaph On Mr. Chester Of Chicheley by William Cowper
- The Baptistry
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).
