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
- Иида Дакоцу – С землею смешались
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- Георгий Иванов – А может быть, еще и не конец
- Bermudas poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Think No More, Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Unspoken by Satish Verma
- Allegro Maestoso by William Ernest Henley
- Владимир Британишский – Пароход пришел
- Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
- Виталий Бакалдин – Я не рос среди берез
- Владимир Высоцкий – Один смотрел, другой орал
- Arhan poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Peace by William Butler Yeats
- Milton (Alcaics) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Quiet by Tony Hoagland
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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).
