Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan
Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan unlike the proud Prometheus you stole from an unknown paradise the white seeds of pure peace sowing them tender and graceful with softly solid stillness in a dry and dreaming land are you blessings bountiful from high above or just muted wishes deep in our hearts? (aug. 18, 2004) End […]
CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN
CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN Caesar’s Last Breath —Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) On the Ides of March, great Caesar stabbed to death by friends, expelled his final breath in exclamation, an accusation I’m forced to share by Fermi’s calculation each time I respire in joy or despair an atom of the cry my Mother gave […]
Birthday Love Song by Miraj Patel
You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, With a soul so pure and heart so clean, For me it’s just the most beautiful you, Baby there can never be another you, Words can’t describe how beautiful you are to me, You are ma one in a billion, You are ma 7 wonders, […]
Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
Before it is time, even the night will not come although the sleepy, peeping birds are sometimes deceived by dusk’s lurking shadows. Even the day will not come before it is time, but the dew will water its path and wait patiently on leaves. . And, even if we may blow candles every year, death […]
Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight I yell ok. Finish something I’m doing, then something else, walk slowly round the corner to my son’s room. He is standing arms outstretched waiting for a bearhug. Grinning. Why do I give my emotion an animal’s name, give it that dark squeeze […]
Bang-Bang by Mikey D Wentworth
Bang bang Banging at the door In the dead of night The dark illuminates your fright As I’m pulled from your bed Dragged across the floor. Bang bang Banging inside your head Festering wounds inflicted by structural violence But the pain illuminates your silence As you escape into ignorance Safe in the sewer with […]
Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman
Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman Goodbye America of the blue overalls and steel-toed boots, goodbye, goodbye. The headline in The Sun said it all today in type as tall as the re-election of a president: General Motors Closes Its Broening Highway Plant. Don’t you remember when they said what was good for GM […]
Awakening by mike yuan
Awakening by mike yuan as a stony statue sitting still under a tremendous tree my inner self fallen into a deep doze while i travel around all the time trying to find the right path through the thorny bushes leading to the hill top a large flock of nameless birds held in their unsinging mouths […]
At the Kitslano Beach by Mike Yuan
i spot and pick up a curious clam whose flimsy lips fairly open and her tongue keeps reaching out as if to reveal the saltiness of seawater the sad face of sand and anecdotes about certain fishes whose narration i really do not understand although my younger son assures me he can End of the […]
Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory
Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory Artery What will they find when they cut you open? Who will be there when they take back your ribs and press onward to your heart? Will they see me kneeling at the edge of your river of blood? Will there be earlier versions of you? Of us floating by […]
Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje Two birds loved in a flurry of red feathers like a burst cottonball, continuing while I drove over them. I am a good driver, nothing shocks me. End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking […]
Apologize by Miraj Patel
When i was down, lost in the world of hope, I had u to catch my rope.. When nothing was alright, i had u at ma side to the right.. When i fear, u said, don’t worry dear, when m near.. I was searching for an angel in the skys, u were here nd i […]
Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles
Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles Oh, kind power of light, you are my flower of the sun. She is the light of the sun and the flower You are my one, the Flower , which by the Peach was spun Crafty and Benevelant you hide in your lun Disheveled, but omniscent […]
A Domestic Dialogue by Mike Yuan
how can i have myself unfettered? —-who has fettered you? no one really except an unseen hand —-then you are free 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 […]
19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory
19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory The game went into overtime that night. The moon didn’t Stay to witness, having other places to be. On top Of Mount Thoradour she couldn’t wait To lose her virginity. This was before the war. Before he would leave her Pregnant with Sierra, alone, before he returned, His left arm’s […]
Leopard by Stanley Wilkin
LEOPARD by Stanley Wilkin I The mountain squatted before him Pinned down by clouds, Its jagged fingers tearing at the sky In omnipresent agony, sides skimming downward, Glistening ice-covered scimitars, into the surrounding jungle’s Exposed midriff, joining the cries of alarmist monkeys With tree-top groans. The flashing fastened snow Told of hopes too far […]
YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar
YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar YOU A moving panorama Of wonders Of shades and colors An infinite variation Expressing eternity Liquid pools your eyes- of cascade pure Surging and welling A language Of dance and dreams That locked me in tantalizing Ever moving, ever expressing A profound reflection Of depth Of caressing feminity Of quelling passions […]
Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin
Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin Gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right. The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful, quick at the bone and the case we had against them was airtight, both exits shoehorned shut with puddingstone, but they had a sub-sub-basement out of range. Next morning they turned […]
Woman Work by Maya Angelou
I’ve got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed The garden to weed I’ve got shirts to press The tots to dress The can to be cut I gotta clean up this […]
When You Come by Maya Angelou
When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of days too few. Baubles of stolen kisses. Trinkets of borrowed loves. Trunks of secret words, End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s […]
Welcome A.O.H. Men by Michael McGovern
Welcome men of Irish blood, With open arms we meet you In the name of Irish Nationhood And faith we hospitably greet you. We welcome you with all the love And friendship men shroud owe each other, And hope each grasp we give may prove The honest pressure of a Brother. For Ireland’s triumphs and […]
Weekend Glory by Maya Angelou
Some clichty folks don’t know the facts, posin’ and preenin’ and puttin’ on acts, stretchin’ their backs. They move into condos up over the ranks, pawn their souls to the local banks. Buying big cars they can’t afford, ridin’ around town actin’ bored. If they want to learn how to live life right they ought […]
Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy
Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy Good evening sir, may I take your hat and coat, Just leave your wallet with the bell boy, Come this way, your table is waiting, Filled with outrageous goodies of lip smacking relish, An orgasmic cheering for the stomachs chic posture, Observe the detachment of the in…tuition’s direction, […]
Travel to Infinite Places by Michael Levy
Music drifts through a thousand minds, Through doors, windows, walls. Serenades sail tranquil waters, Ebb in one ear, flow out the next, Ever onward, navigating infinity, Lovers touch, sending electric messages beyond space and time, Turquoise crystal thoughts blow freely, Across oceans, mountains, plains, Visions of extreme delights fly faster than light, Beaming sensitivity beyond […]
To A Cricket by Michael McGovern
Clamorous cricket in the wall. Thus chirping as night’s curtains fall, I often think with wonder how such bare-boned, tiny thing as thou. In heated nooks within the mill Can rasp thy song all night so shrill. How oft at night I’ve sat alone And heard thy sharppeculiar tone, If as a tone I may […]
The Woods At Night by May Swenson
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 […]
The Waradgery Tribe by Mary Gilmore
The Waradgery Tribe by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today by Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, […]
The Passing of Stumpy Shore by Mervyn John Webster
The Passing of Stumpy Shore by Mervyn John Webster The Constable had found the man ’round five on Friday morn; Apparently while on his shift from midnight through ’till dawn. Two youths, with blood stains on their clothes, detained drunk in the park, Disclosed they’d rolled some homeless bloke, sometime just after dark. Now Sergeant […]
The Mothering Blackness by Maya Angelou
She came home running back to the mothering blackness deep in the smothering blackness white tears icicle gold plains of her face She came home running She came down creeping here to the black arms waiting now to the warm heart waiting rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face She came down creeping […]
The Meaning of Music by Mercedes Madrigal
In the dictionary, music is defined as, “vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.” But there’s definitely more to it than that, isn’t there? Music is so many different things. It’s emotion, compassion. It’s a way of life. Imagine waking up one day, and music didn’t exist. How would we […]
The Lesson by Maya Angelou
I keep on dying again. Veins collapse, opening like the Small fists of sleeping Children. Memory of old tombs, Rotting flesh and worms do Not convince me against The challenge. The years And cold defeat live deep in Lines along my face. They dull my eyes, yet I keep on dying, Because I love to […]
The January Birds by Maurice Riordan
The January Birds by Maurice Riordan The birds in Nunhead Cemetery begin Before I’ve flicked a switch, turned on the gas. There must be some advantage to the light I tell myself, viewing my slackened chin Mirrored in the rain-dark window glass, While from the graveyard’s trees, the birds begin. An image from a dream […]
The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin
The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin Up attic, Lucas Harrison, God rest his frugal bones, once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. The wood was new. The pitch ran down to blunt the year: 1811, the score: 10, he carved into the center rafter to represent his loves, beatings, […]
The Gravy Train by Michael Levy
Take a ride on the Gravy Train, clickerty-clack on the track to a gain, wealth and fortunes to a destination with no name, no signals to stop, forgetting the station from whence we came. The journey of a lifetime, seeing love in money, hands in the pots, grabbing all the honey, no time to taste […]
The Fishermen, The Gulls & The Bible People by Michael Estabrook
The Fishermen, The Gulls & The Bible People by Michael Estabrook funny morning on the beach about 9 AM I’m alone but then these 2 guys with beards & long hair & cigarettes dangling from their mouths, these 2 fisherman, appear on the shore in a motor boat toss in an anchor drag 4 really […]
The First Thrush by Mary Gilmore
The First Thrush by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
The Fairies Break Their Dances by A. E. Housman
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn, And up from India glances The silver sail of dawn. The candles burn their sockets, The blinds let through the day, The young man feels his pockets And wonders what’s to pay. End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external […]
The Burning Crusade by Memphis Knight
Vast asleep in this dying dream In the brutal war of flame to man a distant echo of a childs scream Brought the epilogue of deaths plan The blazing heat and dancing flame destroyed invunerable walls to last and our hearts became sulpher For judging eachother with the past Their tongues a fire scourge the […]
The Rolling Mills by Michael McGovern
I love to see the rays of light That from the furnace flow, Like Phantoms in the arms of night Quarrelling as they go Parading o’erthevalley when The slumbering town is still Oh, then I think there’s beauty is The shadows from the mill Copyright ©: 1933, The Youngstown Vindicator End of the poem 15 […]