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
- Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney
- Robert Burns: Charlie, He’s My Darling:
- Sing of the Banner at Day-Break. by Walt Whitman
- Илья Эренбург – Вы приняли меня в изысканной гостиной
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- Dedication To M… by Rainer Maria Rilke
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- Old Times by Rixa white
- Валерий Брюсов – Искушение
- Владимир Британишский – Чернышев переулок и мост Чернышев
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- The West Wind by William Cullen Bryant
- Владимир Корнилов – Военный оркестр
- Upon The Circumcision poem – John Milton poems
- Василий Казин – Каменщик
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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).
