The Woods At Night
by May Swenson
The binocular owl,
fastened to a limb
like a lantern
all night long,
sees where all
the other birds sleep:
towhee under leaves,
titmouse deep
in a twighouse,
sapsucker gripped
to a knothole lip,
redwing in the reeds,
swallow in the willow,
flicker in the oak –
but cannot see poor
whippoorwill
under the hill
in deadbrush nest,
who’s awake, too –
with stricken eye
flayed by the moon
her brindled breast
repeats, repeats, repeats its plea
for cruelty.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Маяковский – При свободной торговле… (Главполитпросвет №232)
- Love’s Gleaning Tide by William Morris
- “O you, far colder, whiter” by Torquato Tasso
- All The Dead Dears by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Британишский – А Новый год мы встретили в лесу
- Владимир Корнилов – Жизнь
- At Oxford by William Lisle Bowles
- Олег Бундур – Как мама машину выбирала
- Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear’st love to any by William Shakespeare
- Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries by Vachel Lindsay
- Epitaph On An Infant. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- On Fame poem – John Keats poems
- Maktoob
- In Paths Untrodden. by Walt Whitman
- Transient
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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).
