Mad Day In March
by Philip Levine
Beaten like an old hound
Whimpering by the stove,
I complicate the pain
That smarts with promised love.
The oilstove falls, the rain,
Forecast, licks at my wound;
Ice forms, clips the green shoot,
And strikes the wren house mute.
May commoner and king,
The barren bride and nun
Begrudge the season’s dues.
May children curse the sun,
Sweet briar and grass refuse
To compromise the spring,
And both sower and seed
Choke on the summer’s weed.
Those promises we heard
We heard in ignorance;
The numbered days we named,
And, in our innocence,
Assumed the beast was tamed.
On a bare limb, a bird,
Alone, arrived, with wings
Frozen, holds on and sings.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Bridge-Guard in the Karroo by Rudyard Kipling
- Moonbeam flowers by Preeth Nambiar
- Robert Burns: Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell’s Carriage:
- Blizzard by William Carlos Williams
- A Mesh by Shahida Latif
- The Coronet poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Everybody’s Makin’ It Big But Me by Shel Silverstein
- Такахама Кёси – Мох зеленый примят
- Olney Hymn 68: Light Shining Out Of Darkness by William Cowper
- Future Verdict
- Sweet Love Is Dead poem – Alfred Austin
- IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ Иванов
- His Last Request to Julia by Robert Herrick
- Федор Сваровский – Простая история
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).
Philip Levine ( 1928 – 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well. He served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012