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.
7. Centipedes resting on their laurels.
Beyond the pond where dragonflies
Lie bedded down among the reeds
And bullfrogs clock the racing days
Once to wake proud in a burst of sunlight
as bearing news of real significance,
to risk cold coffee for this native hour
It is dark now.
Nets of snow
tumble about us.
Where I search for new rhythms, whose beats are animals and
men.
Genghis Khan me, you midnight plantation!
Dark blue birch trees, sound in my ear!
Zarathuse me, you twilight horizons!
I see them—Crab, Ram, Bull,
And all the world is only shell
Whose pearl and opalescence
Charles Lindbergh never danced with Ginger Rogers.
He wasn’t a comedian even though he was
from Detroit. You’d see him
Biggest fish I will ever see,
men caught you
and hung your death
It's a morning of snow and crows storming the bare treetops
As if they invade the eves of a burned-out cathedral.
Where are the children? A ludicrous posture of mourning