Without You by Miraj Patel
Never in my dreams did i thought life could be so mean to us, Again on this lonely road, heart knows nobody to trust, Just had the one, the one is you, I just can’t imagin my life without you… Please don’t ya say you wanna leave, Don’t ever loose your faith in me, you […]
Wild Soul by Michael Yuan
The cool wind blowing Immersed in nature’s beauty Calming my wild soul End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for […]
Why Me? by Michael Yuan
Every time I try to speak You escape my imaginary grasp without a squeak Sometimes I wonder How can this be? I realize now you are a bird flying so free. And while you soar through the clear blue skies All I can do is watch you And slowly die. I watch you run your […]
Why Do All Good Things Come To An End? by Michael Yuan
The skies turn gray There’s nothing left to say And I ask myself Why do all good things come to an end? Flames to dust Lovers to friends, And I ask myself, Why do all good things come to an end? Flowers decay Lives go away. And I ask myself, Why do all good things […]
Urban Caterpillar by Minal Sarosh
On the gantry the red pigeon bead eye flashes. We halt. An urban caterpillar, suddenly, pinched, picked, still alive cars, scooters, bus, wriggling wangling, caught in its hungry gray beak. The wheels of the car ahead stop, an owl screeching scratching, on the hot tar road, clinging, clawing, a honk behind catches cold, coughing, cuffing. […]
Umbrella by Mike Yuan
seldom have you failed to offer me a ready shelter against a sudden shower the pressing hands of clocks all ticking above the horizons whose every beating i spread like a spray as if flirting with you in a private oasis yet with the west wind rising you become a saggy sail exposing me to […]
To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje
All night long the hockey pictures gaze down at you sleeping in your tracksuit. Belligerent goalies are your ideal. Threats of being traded cuts and wounds –all this pleases you. O my god! you say at breakfast reading the sports page over the Alpen as another player breaks his ankle or assaults the coach. When […]
There Can Never Be Another You by Miraj Patel
Sometimes i wonder how could i be so lucky to have you by my side, coz there can never be another you… Nor heaven can create someone as beautiful as you… When i look at your beautiful eyes, deep inside thats where all my dreams lie, I got a picture of you in my heart […]
Their Reposessions by Michael P Amram
There were cheesecake and petits fours, {The cakes I ate on a French ship when I was four} The streets were all empty and cell Phones were mute, and hand guns were kiln Down to make strings for lutes; A man in a homburg said “what’s your game,” whether I was on earth Waiting for […]
The Wild Goose’s Will by Mike Yuan
Those who know me not Find me a kite tied to the skyline Those who know me well See in me a true sunshine chaser I have never traveled high As the reputed American bald eagle Nor am I attached to the ground Like the pigeons on Tiananmen Square Plumed with the feathers of disappointment […]
The Tree and the Marble by Mike Yuan
My father planted a little Chinese poplar Close to the bank of the Yangtze River Where I buried deep under that tree A glass marble treasured by my childhood Long long afterward, I find the tree dying Though its seeds all blown away somewhere While my marble has really grown Into a magic tree in […]
The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje
The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje A girl whom I’ve not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On her wrist it sleeps, smooth and white, the size of a leech. I gave it to her brandishing a new Italian penknife. Look, I said turning, and blood […]
The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
I was waiting so long for that day to come, the day when i can make you mine.. Today i say it proud, say aloud to the whole world that i got ma girl, i made her mine… Hold my hand, i will walk with you thousand miles… Every second with me i swear, you […]
The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
I was waiting so long for that day to come, the day when i can make you mine.. Today i say it proud, say aloud to the whole world that i got ma girl, i made her mine… Hold my hand, i will walk with you thousand miles… Every second with me i swear, you […]
The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn
The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn In the elephant’s five-pound brain The whole world’s both table and shithouse Where he wanders seeking viandes, exchanging great farts For compliments. The rumble of his belly Is like the contortions of a crumpling planetary system. Long has he roved, his tongue longing to press the juices […]
The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas
The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas He lifted his sward in the shape of the tent liquid light weighing pressing forward the danse below numbed the sinews the gates of tranquility unlatched pause the dance below eternal repeated he lifted his sward again the lords above knew but not of the dance below End of […]
The Lonely Climber: A Seed Poem by Mike Yuan
you are tired, terribly tired tired of climbing alone upon an unknown mt quazilla your sons refused to join you feeling uncomfortable in your presence your wife laughed at your childish idea preferring not to share your eccentricity your fellow travelers are relaxing in cozy cabins enjoying a moment of borrowed privacy indifferent to your […]
The King by Michael Yuan
If I am the attacker, why am I attacked? If I am the chaser, why am I chased? If I am the hunter, why am I hunted? And If I am the Ruler, why am I ruled By Despair? End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s […]
The Island by Milton Acorn
The Island by Milton Acorn Since I’m Island-born home’s as precise as if a mumbly old carpenter, shoulder-straps crossed wrong, laid it out, refigured to the last three-eighths of shingle. Nowhere that plowcut worms heal themselves in red loam; spruces squat, skirts in sand or the stones of a river rattle its dark tunnel under […]
The Fraser River by Mike Yuan
unlike the far more famous nile surging ahead with sweat of old africa or the much mightier huanghe bursting with torrential tears of all china from glamorous glaciers deep in the rockies you are perfectly pure to breasfeed my vancouver the super sweetheart of north america (aug.30, 2004) End of the poem 15 random poems […]
The Epic Menageries by MB Moshe
The Epic Menageries by MB Moshe Clouds shape less pleasing, They’re darkness eclipses Heaven’s holes to mock the sun; And the sky gives feeling Like the world’s going to change For better or worse; Their values remain written, Encrypted in clouds too Baggy to keep rain; Choices thunder like hoofs That beat to sixteen counts […]
The Cup of Life by Mike Yuan
fragile never full this cup of life its taste changed completely with only one droplet of dreamwater staring at it square holding it tight against light not a single drop spilt but all the colors missed along my way here rich and brilliant (sept.2, 2004) End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
The Colored Balloon by Mike Yuan
full of youthful air brilliantly beautiful flying elegantly high but ready to burst open when suddenly stung by the needle of reality always sharply pointed End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US Quant.com […]
The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed And leave the yellow bark dust On your pillow. Your breasts and shoulders would reek You could never walk through markets without the profession of my fingers floating over you. The blind would stumble certain of whom they […]
State Fair Time by Michael S Wilson
A profusion of vehicles are maneuvering to park, Bringing food, cheer and surprises to the masses. Colorful stands, wagons and rides add that spark. Vendors struggle to get situated by dark, Hungry crowds are moving like molasses; A profusion of vehicles are maneuvering to park. Soon the crowds cheer, babies cry, dogs bark, They marvel […]
Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje
Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje Speaking to you this hour these days when I have lost the feather of poetry and the rains of separation surround us tock tock like Go tablets Everyone has learned to move carefully ‘Dancing’ ‘laughing’ ‘bad taste’ is a memory a tableau behind trees of law […]
Soulmating by Mike Yuan
too often above the summer night our eyes are like tiny stars burning bright whose light shines deep into each other’s heart but seperated by light years with neither a skybridge to cross nor a cosmic sting to connect in between End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: […]
Since That Summer by Mike Yuan
We jumped naked Into the fond pond Of our boyhoods Where we loved to Loll and wallow Like playing dogs Chasing frogs madly around From one lotus leaf to another Our pants beside the muddy path Blown far away In a hot and humid dream End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
Searching by Mike Yuan
all along all alone i have searched seeking and searching although never sure what i have been exactly looking for like my little son my ever truer self trying to piece together his jigsaw puzzle into a boat of boyhood sailing forward without a map in my mind i have assembled all the edges and […]
Scotland by MB Moshe
Scotland by MB Moshe I’ll remember days like this; When dew found the Greenest hills my eyes have kissed By a sun that Followed Glasgow west to Larges; I loitered long Cool in streets of cobbled stone; I’ll recall days like this when My backpack tore; And my canvas shoes would kick Dip sheep had […]
Ruined World by Michael Yuan
The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. Secretly watching as they Gossip about me. The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. Making up lies To try and be popular. The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. As I think and wonder Why do I live In […]
Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
no, no, a yard sale though i have been putting up here since the sun started to sing but really i am no salesperson by practice or profession not even for a single day yes, just a loonie for that neither because it is beginning right to rain or light to refrain nor because i […]
Promise Ya by Miraj Patel
I can’t promise to reach the skys, but i swear will bring heaven on earth for ya I can’t promise to swim the longest river, but i swear will never let the distance separate us I can’t promise to climb the highest mountains, but swear will never let ya fall I can’t stop the storm, but i […]
Picking Cherries by Mike Yuan
on a summer afternoon i take my little allen far to a field near the forest of some cheerful cherry trees where he could jump wildly on ever-naked soil finger the freshness of fruit and smell the scarlet of nature letting the wanton wind blow hard and straight through his limbs and senses long numbed […]
Outset by Mike Yuan
today, let me suspend all my senses in the warm and cozy glow of the morning huddling up my whole being just as I used to in my mother’s womb End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the […]
Obdurant men, the worst of the abstinant by Miles
Do not let the obdurate brutes their evils sanctify Deflect their cacophonous, forceful tamps Stand not to follow by For the folly of the human peccavi Pollute your being, like law do the tramps Do not let the obdurate villains villify A Wild Demon caught in its hexerai In its jaw your soul it clamps […]
Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje
Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje Since my wife was born she must have eaten the equivalent of two-thirds of the original garden of Eden. Not the dripping lush fruit or the meat in the ribs of animals but the green salad gardens of that place. The whole arena of green […]
Not even a child by Miles
Not even a child by Miles Time after time you asked if I was abandoned We both know it what you would have done if you were sadened with yes there was no exception no criminal sense nothing you could have done to plead your defense with me with you with my mother came almost […]
Nailing by Mike Yuan
each time i pare my nail i feel deeply grateful for its unselfish readiness to die in my stead sparing me the keen sense of the unbearable pain of growth out of those parts of me always younger more romantic and much more memorable spread randomly like unnoticeable seeds sown in the spring soil End […]
My Ink by Mike Yuan
is a blue cement holding the bricks of my days tightly together or the whole house i call home would become loose ready to collapse even without a pull or push End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – […]