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
- Spiritual Memories of Mother by Raj Napal
- Ольга Ермолаева – За Волгой, ударившись озем
- A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling
- There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love
- Spring by Ramesh Anand
- Memorial Tablet by Siegfried Sassoon
- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only. by Walt Whitman
- The Land Of Happy by Shel Silverstein
- Альфред Теннисон – Лорд Борлей
- Fickle Fortune: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- The Unchanging by Sara Teasdale
- Epitaph on the same by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – Валдайский узник
- Федор Сологуб – В моей лампаде ясный свет
- Cascando by Samuel Beckett
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).