For Birds by Nithin Purple
They freedom lovers, breeze waft those mighty wings, Swiftly moving aloft in a “pulsar ‘pace!, That view enraptured me, and my enchanted feelings, How fortunate are they in gravitational ace, And I your eager watcher, or felt a birder be, They black, white and of brilliant gray color mixed, What brain holds them, what imagination […]
Flying Wishes by Osman cisse Hanif
If life is just a mile Forever if I can dial Then I will for an endless one Grief pain woe are none Upon an untold dream Heaven’s gate opened with beam Its sweet light could wake from sleep Dark-dead eyes in deep weep If life is a sea of snow Swiftly if I could […]
Femme Fatale by Nijole Miliauskaite
how simply this river flows winding its way through the meadows how simply this river flows holding a full embrace of wheat before us how simply it carries our obedient and trusting bodies *** like that girl asleep in a red shell rocked by the waves in the moonlight you sleep peacefully in his arms […]
Eye By Eye by Nijole Miliauskaite
now broad stitches, now fine ones – eye by eye, I’ll be leaning over linen all winter long embroidering this table cloth but during the night you, only you, leave magic blossoms and branches on the windowsill which, even as a child I could not get enough of after the sun had set and we […]
Evening by Olivia Lewis
The sun, a sheer glowing ball, Falls in a rush of mahogany light Smokey and palpable Through the evening night The air is dense and downy soft The moon a thin reed flute Whose solitary tune hearkens to the Wavering, ethereal keening Of wind among the creaking pines The bone-white moon shines eerily And the […]
E-waste by Nisha Gopalakrishnan
When I was new, you knew me more, You used me much, you explored all my features, you were proud of using me, you boasted about me to your friends, And at some point of time… I became outdated for you, you lost interest in me, You found someone new and disposed me as such… […]
Dreamtime by Olivia Lewis
Dreamtime Surrounded by black water, the wave has carried me away Suddenly I smell the familiar scent of mango trees I hear the night calling its familiar tune of crickets Home, take me home. But I am sitting, wafting like a piece of driftwood, in the great, unending, black sea “Sleep, my child, sleep” whispers […]
Death Divine by Nithin Purple
Since my psyche has languished and unwilling rhythm; The cryptic confession that my brain do bear.you gaze in your suborn power, by your mate-less vision.To me your alarm is higher; your doubtless mild mission! When you lead my soul in higher and do i fade through those tress, With the murmuring leaves of guest less pleasure, deep dwelt of […]
Dead Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
dead orchard, dried plum trees and the frozen apple, dead trunks, skewed, twisted branches, knotted fingers, in the cold gray heavens with a wooden face between hesitating clouds beneath my feet dry grass crunches, last year’s, the smell of dust permeates the air, piercing, sharp, sand in my mouth, between my teeth, so brittle, so […]
CloSe To My Heart by Nishant Deherkar
On dis special day i make a vow, A vow not to forget wat made my lyf so special; Those naughty laughs, those innocent tears, Those walks, those pranks, those talks, Those fun tuition times, that mishcief in skul corridors, That sharing n stealing tiffins, that sleepin in science lectures, Those football matches, those silly […]
Children’s Taste by Nijole Miliauskaite
there was a time when we ate the swollen buds of linden trees sticky and sweet the sap of cherry trees, more delicious than berries gnawed small green apples, secretly, with black bread spat out the pits of handfuls of red hawthorn berries sucked icicles it was that sort of time End of the poem […]
Cambodian Flower by Norma Martiri
Cambodian Flower by Norma Martiri Falling petals brush her face Fantasies fill time and space. Mae’s soft kisses touch her cheeks A kind whisper quietly speaks. Desperation tugs and bays Darkness fills the longest days. Sweaty faces, frenzied hands Sunny beaches, waves and sands. Dirty kisses lick her neck Torture keeps rebels in check. Favourite […]
Burnt in contemplation by Nishant Deherkar
When i drown in wonder, My thoughts lose their tracks, My mind suffers a chemical romance, I surrender myself to oblivion, Across the clutches of time, Where i find solace in the emptiness Living pessimism with finesse. Livid memories open up wounds, With the guilty, none other than me, I fall into pieces, speckles of […]
The Bonifratrian Hospital by Nijole Miliauskaite
having chosen exile, madness, oblivion their striped clothes faded faces pale they sleep so heavily the hospital garden is still empty, wind sweeps the dust, romantic poets and he is a scar on the wrist, blood flows gently through the veins at the bottom of the hill the narcotic fragrance of ash trees, full clusters […]
Blank by Nizar Sartawi
Is he frivoling or mocking, asking us to fill the blank? (… … …) How do we fill the blank? (… … …) With what do we fill the blank? (… … …) What’s blank? A frenzied whirlpool swallowing humans a black hole gulping space and time. Copyright ©: Nizar Sartawi End of the poem […]
Between Two Moments by Nizar Sartawi
When passion roars in our bosoms for riding on horseback that breaks through fortresses or mounting a cloud to plant in its whiteness the banners of madness or ascending a star to break in its space the barriers of silence it’s alright to search for a myth in whose folds we tuck a few details […]
Between going and staying the day wavers by Octavio Paz
Between going and staying the day wavers by Octavio Paz Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in stillness rocks. All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can’t be touched. Paper, book, pencil, glass, rest in […]
Basic Overhaul by Nijole Miliauskaite
in a frenzy I turn the whole house upside down from basement to attic, amazing myself, I can’t stop wondering what imp has possessed me, it’s really so ludicrous with no prior plan, although at times it seems all predetermined inside me I choose what to discard, what to give away and to whom and […]
Aquamarine Butterfly by Nina Gabriel
Aquamarine Butterfly by Nina Gabriel Aquamarine Butterfly By Aquamarine waters of my Kingdom, Surrounded with splendor of treasures of my creations, In a hard shell of a Crab, I was sitting and contemplating on my Life’s Journey, One day, as the Golden rays of the Sun touched the Earth, The silky threads of my cocoon […]
An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith
An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith Good people all, with one accord Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word,— From those who spoke her praise. The needy seldom passed her door, And always found her kind; She freely lent to all the poor,— Who […]
An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith
An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith Good people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song; And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran— Whene’er […]
Absolute Divine by Nithin Purple
Then I sharpened my wings for a prissy flight, Through powerful Light that Heavenly be; And that one moment that I relived from my sinful drought, That appealed for many longer years, than brightness ever probe. Sit with you now, and inhaling your songs and verse; Of serene that borrows your vibe, Blessed within me […]
A Sculptor’s Vow by Nikhil Srinivas
I am a sculptor I always yearn to convert A hard rock into A beautiful sculpture- But thinking of transforming Every stone i see Into a great piece of art Is nothing but my greediness May be that is the reason Why all my creations have Some or other defect- However my endeavor Will not […]
A woman’s desire by Oriada Dajko
A lonely woman near a window, looks after the sun under the shadow. Her whisper becomes a cloud. A cloud painted into the sky, created by the hand of God, designed by my mind. A beautiful woman is a wind, which touches deeply my eyes. Copyright ©: Oriada Dajko End of the poem 15 random […]
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, where every sport could please, How often have I loitered […]
Poetic Abbreviations, Poetry Abbreviations
Poetic Abbreviations In the course of working on this page, I encountered a number of abbreviations, most of them, predictably enough, British, which I had to decipher. I am going to list those abbreviations and acronyms one by one, as they appear, so this may take a while before, if ever, the list is […]
I Remember, I Remember by Philip Larkin
Coming up England by a different line For once, early in the cold new year, We stopped, and, watching men with number plates Sprint down the platform to familiar gates, ‘Why, Coventry!’ I exclaimed. ‘I was born here.’ I leant far out, and squinnied for a sign That this was still the town that had […]
How Distant by Philip Larkin
How distant, the departure of young men Down valleys, or watching The green shore past the salt-white cordage Rising and falling. Cattlemen, or carpenters, or keen Simply to get away From married villages before morning, Melodeons play On tiny decks past fraying cliffs of water Or late at night Sweet under the differently-swung stars, When […]
Home Is So Sad by Philip Larkin
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped in the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft. And turn again to what it started as, A joyous shot at how […]
Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin
Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home For lack of money, and it is all right. Places they guarded, or kept orderly, We want the money for ourselves at home Instead of working. And this is all right. It’s hard to say who wanted it to happen, But now it’s been decided […]
High Windows by Philip Larkin
When I see a couple of kids And guess he’s fucking her and she’s Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm, I know this is paradise Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives– Bonds and gestures pushed to one side Like an outdated combine harvester, And everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, […]
He Hears That His Beloved Has Become Engaged by Philip Larkin
For C.G.B. When she came on, you couldn’t keep your seat; Fighting your way up through the orchestra, Tup-heavy bumpkin, you confused your feet, Fell in the drum; how we went ha ha ha! But once you gained her side and started waltzing We all began to cheer; the way she leant Her cheek on […]
Grief by Philip Larkin
If grief could burn out Like a sunken coal The heart would rest quiet The unrent soul Be as still as a veil But I have watched all night The fire grow silent The grey ash soft And I stir the stubborn flint The flames have left And the bereft Heart lies impotent End of […]
Going by Philip Larkin
There is an evening coming in Across the fields, one never seen before, That lights no lamps. Silken it seems at a distance, yet When it is drawn up over the knees and breast It brings no comfort. Where has the tree gone, that locked Earth to sky? What is under my hands, That I […]
Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel by Philip Larkin
Light spreads darkly downwards from the high Clusters of lights over empty chairs That face each other, coloured differently. Through open doors, the dining-room declares A larger loneliness of knives and glass And silence laid like carpet. A porter reads An unsold evening paper. Hours pass, And all the salesmen have gone back to Leeds, […]
For Sidney Bechet by Philip Larkin
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes, Building for some a legendary Quarter Of balconies, flower-baskets and quadrilles, Everyone making love and going shares– Oh, play that thing! Mute glorious Storyvilles Others may license, grouping around their chairs Sporting-house girls […]
First Sight by Philip Larkin
Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but a sunless glare. Newly stumbling to and fro All they find, outside the fold, Is a wretched width of cold. As they wait beside the ewe, Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies Hidden round them, […]
Far Out by Philip Larkin
Beyond the dark cartoons Are darker spaces where Small cloudy nests of stars Seem to float on air. These have no proper names: Men out alone at night Never look up at them For guidance or delight, For such evasive dust Can make so little clear: Much less is known than not, More far than […]
Faith Healing by Philip Larkin
Slowly the women file to where he stands Upright in rimless glasses, silver hair, Dark suit, white collar. Stewards tirelessly Persuade them onwards to his voice and hands, Within whose warm spring rain of loving care Each dwells some twenty seconds. Now, dear child, What’s wrong, the deep American voice demands, And, scarcely pausing, goes […]
Essential Beauty by Philip Larkin
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves Of how life should be. High above the gutter A silver knife sinks into golden butter, A […]