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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
- Валерий Брюсов – Последнее желанье
- Владимир Британишский – На полпути в Илимск
- Eloisa to Abelard poem – Alexander Pope
- Polly In A Porny by Shel Silverstein
- Instead of farewell by Vinko Kalinić
- Answer To A Child’s Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Death Fugue by Paul Celan
- Once By The Pacific by Robert Frost
- Who Says Words With My Mouth? by Rumi
- Владимир Британишский – Дали ему дивизию
- Robert Burns: Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet:
- A Twilight Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Иван Варавва – Кубань
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).
