Year O’ year by Nikunj Sharma
Year O’ Year… O’ my lovely New Year…. A warm welcome to you…a charm blossom to you… I’ve made some resolutions…From the state of convolutions.. Let me swipe out of fear…I’ll wipe out my tear…. Year O’ Year… O’ my lovely New Year…. A warm welcome to you…a charm blossom to you… As I reel […]
The Woman From The Archive by Nijole Miliauskaite
a woman of indeterminate age in the fading light hands folded on her lap those same days those same faces a current carried on and on hair full of archival dust dishevelled, calligraphic writing, deeply hidden sadness on the window a bouquet of dried meadow flowers, barely fragrant in the fading light you turn and […]
Where we fall by Osman cisse Hanif
As if on us there was a call The path we took only heard us at all Preparing joyfully lined up to foul Singing uncontrollably we matched but fall Only the groove steep side of a dreadful-like mountain Promises us a true good fate, the fruitful pain None isn’t written, even beyond the brain So […]
When the Walls Were White by Noele Martin
A deep green the color we chose for the master bedroom The room where I use to sleep with someone else another man I bet my Fiancé tries not to think about when the walls were white A deep green for starting over New life New or just different I feel the same The white […]
When I live with fancy’ by Nithin Purple
‘while this fancy a stretched art, When cheers, her beeps long they live , when from secret eyes so well dart, To scan in peace and solemn strive. Like Caring wings of zephyr’s drift and blow, As wet streams they run so widest and rush, She from tents of flora, mind’s lonely flow, With her […]
When Trust Fails… by Olaniyi Beloved Abimbola
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems Many say; trust is the only way When absent; both parties replay Each smells frequently a foul play Then a white is stained with clay When trust fails… What comes to mind is ‘What next?’ Because all needs rest […]
The Weavers by Nijole Miliauskaite
after school a hard hand gathered us to the sewing shop a flock of young girls with children’s faces bindweed at our waists all winter we sewed white shirts for orphans white calla lilies blossomed in hothouses beneath the glass blossoms for the bride’s bouquet for the wreath of spruce for emptiness melt the distant […]
The Weaver by Nijole Miliauskaite
I hold a silk shawl in my hands – a weightless cloud, billowing against my breath, if I let it go it would simply fly away old silk, its white yellowed like elephant bones, an eight-year-old girl wove it, her hands were swift, skilled oh and her eyes, dark and knowing in her sallow face […]
Vagina Envy by Nin Andrews
1. Listening to the women laugh and chat at the end of the day, a man feels he is left out, alone, stranded. He is but an afterthought in her life, a period at the end of her day, or a mere after-dinner mint. 2. Whatever bliss a sufferer feels, he loses it too quickly, […]
Untitled #13 by Nijole Miliauskaite
it was not Alisa the girl who posed in the photograph with bare feet, half-naked, dressed in rags, her dark hair cropped short one hand pressed against her waist as if dancing palm stretched out for alms with naked shoulders it was certainly not Alisa that girl grew into a charming Victorian lady gave birth […]
Untitled #12 by Nijole Miliauskaite
a cold evening, swollen painful willow buds migrating birds are perched in the skeletons of trees along the shore like great black blossoms a small reddish flame there, far off, trembles in the icy wind as if alive, near the water a fire stoked by children it’s almost warmer, isn’t it, as we draw near […]
Untitled #11 by Nijole Miliauskaite
birds with black heads, black wings black beaks, black hooked talons dark grey bodies in the seaside town big as hens I’ve never seen such birds they walk through the field a large flock clucking attack gardens a black black cloud above my head they speak in human voices End of the poem 15 random […]
Untitled #10 by Nijole Miliauskaite
along worn stone steps, steep wooden staircases, ladders spiral tower stairs on the stairs of our house your silent spirit entered and illuminated all the corners, all the forgotten rooms the dark crowded attic, the small rooms of the half-cellar, the damp and dismal tower, the tangled corridors, filled with echoes the hidden labyrinth all […]
Untitled #1 by Nijole Miliauskaite
I know a place where when you brush your foot across the sand the sand moans sadly as if weeping sometimes a woman appears there, dressed in black, with eyes emptied of tears wind carries her across the sand like the shadow of a cloud there was a death camp there, during the war End […]
Two sparrows and my heart by Nizar Sartawi
All alone, peering out the window before sunrise, I return the greetings: Two sparrows, ash-colored, tinted with clouds, turn their eyes to me and say: ‘good dawn sir’ and fly with the breeze far away… far away… and my heart leaps and I cry… and cry… and cry… End of the poem 15 random poems […]
Turtledove of the Green Land – Dedicated to Tunisian poet, Huda Hajji by Nizar Sartawi
O Witch! O Lady of the meadows of golden spikes and dark olive groves on the foothills of Atlas Mountains How you amaze the lining of the azure sky with the glamour of the Earth when its flaccid grass beneath the flames of the sun turns in your petit fingertips into braids of rainbows and […]
To Spirituality by Nithin Purple
Awake your mind’s precious weigh; Does it drives, your soul’s wizen health. And he to you is willing; you can’t inveigh; Vivid is Apollo, god of light, trust his songs: Gain your providential solemness with fewer aches; Until,a divine you breed with you called spiritual Eros: Spirituality exists where ever our struggles; An issue of […]
To Melancholy- Written On An intensely agitated Day by Nithin Purple
O ‘melancholy, hectic chill for human’s soul, Herewith dismal presence any spirit does descent Unto dreams of tranquil,restful, yet in gloom-ful Moist,and sometimes of aweful views we went. Enigmatic woven waves are those deary curls, Which traverse with each mystery loom us,we bent, Where life is low fram’d and fled amid wild the whirls, And […]
To Imagination by Nithin Purple
I swim Unto high waves of imagination,So seriousness blends with inspiring wine;Drink of silence made infusion,That mind grows soft then thick and aflame.Its yard is adorned with hope full merry;Ward of profound, born new sublime,A seduced aggression is it being imaginary;That wakes me from seven seas of prime. End of the poem 15 random poems […]
To Her Beauty by Nithin Purple
If ‘beauty’ Be the self satisfied pride she bears,Each Fly do wing around her cherubic sweet face,As they; lovers seek what her anonymous covers,And dream them in a transient trace.When ‘beauty’, a self possessed pride, you Worn,Each fly does wing around your wilt grace,As what lovers opine, ‘how your beauty haste flown;As falls the man […]
To Heal by Nithin Purple
‘Tis how a muse conquering my slender age; Naked moments and a flightless gloom. Dreams are unripe, but lively own; From thee, I fled unconstrained. Sins discolored my retention when you hide from me, Solely then dwelt is my pathos. And night’s and days swept, sullen; Neath your heavens lodge, my lost ecstasy. Every parent […]
Time To Transplant by Nijole Miliauskaite
this spring I must transplant, it’s about time my aloe, old, gnarled aloe vera, treasured beyond words by those who know its healing qualities hidden deep within what a tangle of roots, tiny ones, thick ones so tight that there is no way I can remove it, no matter what I do, I grab a […]
They Tell Of The Warsaw Uprising by Nijole Miliauskaite
– I was nineteen with flamethrowers (it was a new weapon then) from house to house I slipped on the stairs, hurt myself – such a sticky mass, jelly, something spilled, an open door into the room, where the parents slept, and here a newborn – did you understand then that you weren’t fighting the […]
The Witching Hour by Norma Martiri
The Witching Hour by Norma Martiri Inside the deepest, darkest night, An eerie presence unexplained. Abstruse dreams jolted with a fright, My booming heart alert and strained. A feeble light; my sole defence, While choked screams fade in cold silence. Malevolence seeks to devour, Disquieted souls in this dark hour. (Rispetto) Copyright ©: 2011 Norma […]
The Walk by Noel Angelo Hurley
I enjoyed our walk today over the hills Where splendid colours danced on leaves The smell of wet trees and daffodils The confident kiss of Summer’s breeze We sat for a while, drank cold tea and laughed Remember, the radio played a song by Cliff “Poor man’s Elvis” you said, acting daft But these miss […]
The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
I’m the queerest young fellow that ever was heard. My mother’s a Jew; my father’s a Bird With Joseph the Joiner I cannot agree So ‘Here’s to Disciples and Calvary.’ If anyone thinks that I amn’t divine, He gets no free drinks when I’m making the wine But have to drink water and wish it […]
The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) by Olivia Lewis
The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) The moonlight off the pond shimmered Ice-cold but jagged And above something rushing A dark dusk wraith And a dark branch cuts in two the moon This place is all wrong It is without space What is that It is […]
The Last Whisper by Nizar Sartawi
Farewell lest the cells of feelings die as this moon will go away leaving me for the beasts of the dark and I’ve woven for him from the hymns of my heart love scarves that the wind flung on the roads tattered and bleeding ***** Farewell for my path is long… long Its end is […]
The Fire by Nin Andrews
A woman lights herself on fire again and again. Each time she thinks she can control the fire, or at least delay the progress of its flames. The little flames that singe the surface of her tiny blonde hairs and race up her arms and legs. When the heat rises, she takes a sip of […]
The Blacksmith by Olga Dytyniak
Iron, that malleable thing can be forged in fashion first seen in smithy’s mind. He fires and draws punches and bends smites and cuts and fires again each stay in the coals increases the iron’s tenderness redsorangesyellowswhites glow like comets, traverse the darkness Sparks sap resistance. Hammer clangs, first to iron, then to steel it’s […]
The Battle of an National Icon by Norma Martiri
The Battle of an National Icon by Norma Martiri Towering gum trees stand majestic Eucalyptus, nature’s domestic. Adorable with real distinction Staring down the barrel of extinction. Habitats devoured by hungry machines Apathetic world needs other means. Frightened koalas cling to felled trees Greedy developers do as they please. Urban sprawl, a disease to nature […]
The Visit by Nijole Miliauskaite
endless corridors the convent’s interior garden worn stairs doors, white wards numbing cold fetters the feet, the hands persistently hidden eyes full of fear with my last ounce of strength I recognize the walk, the movement of the arm beneath the trees on the grass people are eating it is difficult to imagine how much […]
That Summer by Nijole Miliauskaite
she wore light long wide dresses the wind carried her down streets and through parks easily, as if through a dream with blossoming lindens the thin soft cloth did not hide her breasts and in the sun you could see her supple young body it was so hot we rested in wicker chairs in the […]
Temporary City by Nijole Miliauskaite
walking in the evening along the banks of the creek, as the sky is lighted by the glow from the hothouses, farther on the dump, the street, the pond, the hospital, farther still garages and the dried tops of pine trees here in the spring a nurse was raped as she walked to work one […]
Synesthesia by Orla McGreevy
Synesthesia by Orla McGreevy This morning when I woke I smelt yellow. It was the rough amber that tickled my nostril hair but it faded to a perfumed jasmine after several blinks. I think I heard the tang of mustard with a lemon singing in the background, and it was hard to tell exactly which […]
Summer Enclosed In A Semi-Dark Cup by Nijole Miliauskaite
summer – enclosed in a semi-dark cup locked with nine locks scribbled on graph paper squares in a quick hand, chicken scratch, you’d call it from the first to the last page, cheeks flushed I read your book, studied Latin names what grows, blossoms, bears fruit gives me such pleasure that I’d like together with […]
Sound and Spirit by Oladele Hussein
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems Listen to the spirit of the sound. Hear the spirit calling. It echoes from the land beyond I can hear it coming. I can hear the sound of their feet. Far far away I can it coming. The peoples […]
Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy by Oliver St. John Gogarty
The first was Medical Dick The second was Medical Davy The first had a Bloody Big Prick The second had Buckets of Gravy To show– to show– to show what medicals are. Then out spoke Medical Dick To his comrade Medical Davy ‘I’d swap my Bloody Big Prick For you with your buckets of Gravy’ […]
Sleeping for Kafka by Nin Andrews
I heard on the radio this morning that prayers can heal. Experiments demonstrate that cancer patients who are prayed for, even by an anonymous person, have a better prognosis than those who receive no prayers. A person can purchase prayers from Grace Church in Kansas by dialing 1-800-prayers. Via and Mastercard are accepted. I read […]
Sitting Beside The Very Street by Nijole Miliauskaite
sitting beside the very street on a dilapidated bench, paint peeling people stroll past, children scurry an infant left in a carriage outside a shop wails wearing a small blue beret, the kind tractor drivers wear a thick raincoat from who knows how long ago, high rubber boots he sits, eating ice cream with wafers […]