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
- Second Epistle to J. Lapraik by Robert Burns
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Moon’s Minion poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Lord Gregory: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Beware O’ Bonie Ann:
- A Ghost in the Shell by Talha Jafri
- Across Kansas by William Stafford
- Sonnet CXII by William Shakespeare
- Clorinda And Damon poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Николай Языков – Сомнение
- Robert Burns: Montgomerie’s Peggy:
- Father Of A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: To Miss Ferrier: Enclosing the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair.
- Яков Полонский – Диссонанс
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Вани перед студентами
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).
