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
- A Child by William Ernest Henley
- Happiness by Stevie Smith
- Владимир Костров – 1380 год
- Who’s Who by W H Auden
- Confession by Neelam Sinha
- Intimidation by Satish Verma
- Concrete Backyard by Ryssel Guzman
- Владимир Маяковский – Пожарные лозунги (1928)
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along by Robert Browning
- When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- Николай Языков – Поздравление М. Н. Дириной
- Нина Воронель – Я не хочу опять вернуться в детство
- Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair by Robert Burns
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