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
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Epistle to Major Logan by Robert Burns
- Зинаида Александрова – Маленькой елочке холодно зимой
- Notes for Canto CXX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Create Wealth With Creative Thinking
- Dyer Died In Silence poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry
- Константин Батюшков – На поэмы Петру Великому
- The Statues by William Butler Yeats
- A Lament For Adonis by Sappho
- Алексей Плещеев – Мною злых и глупых шуток
- A Dream (English Translation) by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Garden by Abraham Cowley
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Spring Thing by Paul Blackburn
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
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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).
