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
- At Sea by Sara Teasdale
- To Spirituality by Nithin Purple
- Robert Burns: Awa’ Whigs, Awa’:
- Book Third [Residence at Cambridge] by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine: On His Writing To The Poet, That A Girl In That Part Of The Country Was With A Child To Him.
- Николай Заболоцкий – Урал
- Алексей Хомяков – Русская песня
- Love’s Gleaning Tide by William Morris
- Николай Заболоцкий – Жена
- The Castle By The River by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Concert Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Ненавистью древней… (РОСТА № 198)
- Comus poem – John Milton poems
- L’Art poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
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).
