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
- The Zilver-Weed by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care:
- To Any Dead Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Silent Song by Pamela Griffiths
- Иосиф Бродский – Бюст Тиберия
- Leaving and Leaving You by Sophie Hannah
- The Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand
- Sonnet CIX by William Shakespeare
- Николай Глазков – Покуда карты не раскрыты
- Written In Cananore
- Николай Заболоцкий – Я не ищу гармонии в природе
- Robert Burns: The Keekin’-Glass:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Побег на рывок
- English Poetry. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Assault. Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей.
- Николай Языков – Элегия (День ненастный, темный; тучи)
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).
