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, What Is Honour?–‘Tis The Finest Sense by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Ты в пустыню меня послала
- A Death-Day Recalled by Thomas Hardy
- Владимир Маяковский – Разве у вас не чешутся обе лопатки
- Владимир Солоухин – Утро
- Альфред Теннисон – Волшебница Шалот
- The Child’s Greäve by William Barnes
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
- Holy Thursday (Innocence) by William Blake
- Олег Бундур – Сломанное дерево
- Шекспир – По совести скажи – Сонет 10
- Николай Заболоцкий – Бегство в Египет
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Sea Took Pity poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Величальная отцу
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).
