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
- At The Smithville Methodist Church by Stephen Dunn
- My Heart Screams by Roberto Cocina
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 poem – Alexander Pope
- About The Sheltered Garden Ground by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Алексей Толстой – Ты жертва жизненных тревог
- Гавриил Державин – Жуковскому и Родзянке, приславшим с большими похвалами автору перевод его оды «Бог» на французском языке
- Юнна Мориц – Осень
- Poem of Joys. by Walt Whitman
- The Song of Death by Robert Burns
- Hot and Cold by Roald Dahl
- An Immorality poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Константин Бальмонт – Море – вечное стремленье, горы – царственный покой
- Robert Burns: Halloween: The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who are unacquainted with the manners and traditions of the country where the scene is cast, notes are added to give some account of the principal charms and spells of that night, so big with prophecy to the peasantry in the west of Scotland. The passion of prying into futurity makes a striking part of the history of human nature in its rude state, in all ages and nations; and it may be some entertainment to a philosophic mind, if any such honour the author with a perusal, to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened in our own.-R.B.
- Ольга Берггольц – Сестре
- Robert Burns: Sketch -New Year’s Day [1790]: To Mrs. Dunlop.
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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).
