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
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Здравствуй, школа
- If you love the life by Vinko Kalinić
- Наум Коржавин – Комиссары
- Moon poems by Raj Arumugam
- Convalescence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Compassion poem – Amey Deshpande poems | Poems and Poetry
- Наум Коржавин – Есть у тех, кому нету места
- Николай Карамзин – Берег
- The Bells Ov Alderburnham by William Barnes
- Ecologue I by Virgil
- Такахама Кёси – Иокогама в утро моего возвращения из Франции
- Степан Щипачев – Тебе
- Story by Stephen Dunn
- On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper
- A Song by Robert Creeley
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).
