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
- The Homestead by William Barnes
- Character Of Charles Brown poem – John Keats poems
- Kotri By The River
- Sonnet # 21 by Luis A. Estable
- In Paths Untrodden. by Walt Whitman
- Over the Carnage. by Walt Whitman
- Atalanta’s Race by William Morris
- The Weepen Leady by William Barnes
- Wintering by Sylvia Plath
- February 23
- Николай Заболоцкий – Как мыши с котом воевали
- Олег Бундур – Сон
- Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns
- create.html
- A Deep Sworn Vow by William Butler Yeats
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