Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Did he describe the blue stripe again,
unelected governor?
And from trees to hospitals, one story
The blackboard is erased in the attic
And the wind turns up the light of the stars,
Sinewy now. Someone will find out, someone will know.
In these situations
I’m trying to figure out what is going on.
So is he too. Purged for oversharing,
Better homes and gardens for many
but for the rest, we are not so sure.
We need a place to turn around and be unctuous
There is a tremendous interest in dog-related items,
such as dog-paintings. once they figured out how to print on tin,
copper and silver with the horn on it,
Barely tolerated, living on the margin
In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued
On the brink of destruction, like heroines in Orlando Furioso
The immense hope, and forbearance
Trailing out of night, to sidewalks of the day
Like air breathed into a paper city, exhaled
Impatient as we were for all of them to join us,
The land had not yet risen into view: gulls had swept the gray steel towers away
So that it profited less to go searching, away over the humming earth
It was always November there. The farms
Were a kind of precinct; a certain control
Had been exercised. The little birds
When they passed through a city, it was others knew it first.
The man claimed no lift in his shoe but an advertisement for the dance
left over from the last street but one.