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30. My favorite owl poem is Richard Wilbur's "A Barred Owl"

Reply to ND-Dem (Reply #19)

Thu Feb 26, 2015, 10:51 AM

Feb 2015

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179529

A Barred Owl
By Richard Wilbur
The warping night air having brought the boom
Of an owl’s voice into her darkened room,
We tell the wakened child that all she heard
Was an odd question from a forest bird,
Asking of us, if rightly listened to,
“Who cooks for you?” and then “Who cooks for you?”

Words, which can make our terrors bravely clear,
Can also thus domesticate a fear,
And send a small child back to sleep at night
Not listening for the sound of stealthy flight
Or dreaming of some small thing in a claw
Borne up to some dark branch and eaten raw.

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My favorite owl poem is Richard Wilbur's "A Barred Owl" Tanuki Feb 2015 #30

thanks, i'd never seen that one before. dark for a favorite though? ND-Dem Feb 2015 #44

For me it is more realistic than dark. We had owls, hawks, etc. in the trees on our property Tanuki Feb 2015 #45

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