It is an old story, the way it happens
sometimes in winter, sometimes not.
The listener falls to sleep,
the doors to the closets of his unhappiness open
and into his room the misfortunes come —
death by daybreak, death by nightfall,
their wooden wings bruising the air,
their shadows the spilled milk the world cries over.
There is a need for surprise endings;
the green field where cows burn like newsprint,
where the farmer sits and stares,
where nothing, when it happens, is never terrible enough.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Robert Burns: Where Are The Joys I have Met?:
- I Don’t Know If History Repeats Itself by Yehuda Amichai
- Cantico del Sole poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Entranced by Satish Verma
- The Caucas poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- Song of the Exposition. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet Xv
- On The Bus poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet LIV by William Shakespeare
- Ballade Of Dead Ladies poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Pity For Poor Africans by William Cowper
- A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
- Николай Заболоцкий – Предостережение
- O Hymen! O Hymenee! by Walt Whitman
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