Leaving and Leaving You by Sophie Hannah
Leaving and Leaving You by Sophie Hannah When I leave you postcode and your commuting station, When I left undone all the things we planned to do You may feel you have been left by association But there is leaving and leaving you. When I leave your town and the club that you belong to, […]
If It Were Beginning by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
If it were a beginning I couldn’t imagine anything more beautiful; But it came to be my illusion, And no one was more ashamed than me. The approach was delicate with steps silent. But the withdrawal happened to be so delicate – That left me perplexed, whether ‘it’ was Really an approach! And to my […]
Hypatia by Stanley Wilkin
They attacked her in mid exploration Cutting away her golden thoughts As they cut away her flesh, destroying A mind that they couldn’t destroy in Debate, a sparkling old woman Whose thoughts were spun from steel. The screaming mob desecrated her tiny form Dragging it into the dust, through the rubbish And shit. Tearing off […]
Homosexuality by Spencer Reece
After my mother and father fight, my father takes my hand and we walk down to the Mississippi where he smokes Camel cigarettes. He flicks his ashes away from me. He rarely says my name. All day on TV, I watch monks in Saigon douse themselves in gasoline and light their saffron robes on fire. […]
Highway to Happiness by Stacey Chillemi
Highway to Happiness Dogs bring happiness into your home, Nothing on this planet can replace the special moments you create with your dog. They bring memories to cherish, These memories may be a part of the past However, in my head they’ll always last, I can share these memories with the world And let the […]
High school crush……lonesome awaits by Stephen Allen
Trap in dawn, Night honking its horn. Walking on the north street I stare at my high school crush, I wonder if she knows how much She makes me blush. Coldness creeping underneath my sleeve, If she should say hi my heart would leap. My glances touching her skin like the coldness of the night, […]
God’s Abdication by Snowdon King
God’s Abdication by Snowdon King a whole bureaucracy up to your skies, God… …the waiting lines are long we are obediently waiting for our turn birth, marriage, death certificates the every night prayer the sign of the cross before every meal, the Sunday mass the confession, may our terrible sins be forgiven there were times […]
Family by Stacey Chillemi
FAMILY BOND: Beauty – Obligation – Necessary – Devoted I am so fond when I see people bond Family bonding time is time the family spends, Meaningfully time spent People, Dogs, Cats, Birds And all Special times that create strong ties And loads of love That lies deep within our hearts And remains forever in […]
Everything He Did, He Did In Jest by stanley wilkin
In this contorted frame, badger-like scurrying, Scrabbling for prey, in the midst of fratricidal disputes- The dead lingering like ruptured sores- The dead dripping like candy from Christmas trees, Our lives meandering, our thoughts remain. In this dry season drunken men walk like dragons Scales roaring with white flame: Fangs like industrial weapons Formed into […]
Entropy by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
A nature full of savageness, A gambling world in force The Creation is a chaos- Mare Cacophonous discourse. I value myself the most; Not that, I’m proud. But there are so many ‘I’s Amorphous in the Crowd. Your pain is yours Only you are there to feel Your cry for life Hardly makes a deal. […]
Disconnect by Snowdon King
Disconnect by Snowdon King and if the server crashed would I still be a poet? and if the Internet crashed suddenly in the whole wide world who’s going to ever hear of me? I would like a law to forbid poetry in public to have to go in specially designed places with a pencil and […]
Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer
Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer Every hour, I go insane,Diving into the greatest pain, Only they can understand,Giving me their helping hands, Normal people use their brooms,Sweeping us into lonely rooms, Not until they lick our blood, Will they see our filthy mud, Which runs through our rotten brains, Forever and ever, we are insane. ————— […]
By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos o universo pára ao entardecer maritacas se refugiam em qualquer lugar os cães adormecem enroscados à cauda a dormideira se prepara para a segunda-feira o universo pára ao entardecer jovens ansiando pelo novo sol velhos cabeceando seu crepúsculo padres orando por suas almas o universo […]
By Garpal Stream by Stanley Wilkin
By Garpal stream the young men came Decades before the flood On Garpal field they started the game Quenching the grass with blood. Down by the hill, near the copse, they lie, The first to score was the first to die. Every year the young men came Where the roses and dandelions bud Eager to […]
Buddha’s Laugh by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
Buddha’s Laugh by Sonya Ki Tomlinson Pearl on the tip of my nose drops into the Ocean of Milk flooding my heart I laugh to myself as if awakening suddenly from a lucid dream for so long I have wrestled with an angel danced, courted and eloped with a figment of my imagination not realizing […]
Beautiful Moroccan by Stanley Wilkin
Dressed in black, dark eyes amused She strolls into a room With the specialised tread Of a femme fatale, Tossing her streaming hair in arrogant joy. Her perfect body Contains the calm and unexpected force Of the sea, shifting in a moment between Reason and fury. She graces the men with sure-footed Arabic, Stark, sibilant, […]
Ambrosia by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
Ambrosia by Sonya Ki Tomlinson I covered your wound with a piece of my heart what will it take to stop the bleeding here is my love don’t be afraid when our lips meet radiant petals burst open Drink in the Light of the sun Copyright ©: 2013 ————— The End And that’s the End […]
Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
ALTERNATE DESTINATION The Sky is grey in shame. Because celluloid steals it’s Blue To capture games of worms – Reverse evolution from Human to Protozoa. Venus’s gradually losing her shine Due to filthy eject Masculine. The Earth suffers infection all over her Overcrowded body to pollute the Galaxy. Humanity is in desperate search for an […]
Adaptation by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
Adaptation As long as conscience is not deaf Pains cannot go in silent exile. Frustrations are so shameless Not ready to hide behind a smile. Who am I to register protest? Neither a celeb nor a declared activist- Speechless though having words Boiling in furry, stinging inside to bleed. Better I read a news paper […]
A Veterans Memories Breeze By In the Wind by Stacey Chillemi
As the breeze sets in And the sun sets down on me I comfortably sit on a cliff with my dog Biff Watching the waves of the ocean Dance onto the ocean shore As I sit with my arm around my best buddy Biff Pondering about the good old days Oh, how I remember the […]
A Man, They Made a God by Walid Saba
He danced with harlots He drank with thieves He ate with beggars He slept with killers He conversed with the humble They believed … He defied the high priests He shunned the kings He ridiculed the powerful He snubbed the rich They killed him! And erected a church … In His name
A Kind of Life by Stanley Wilkin
Crystallising thin white light Decked with ancient portraits, The air heavy with dust. Beneath the glittering floorboards Rodents scurried, smelling out crumbs. This was where The old man walked at the very end Of his very long life, grappling With pitiless unforgiving memories. In this garish, gargoyle haunted house Amidst the enduring pine trees he […]
A Gemini’s Hurt by Stephen Allen
Winged love lost its wings, striding In another disguise which frowns At he which clod in a mourning glow, A woe as never shined so bright insight. Killed by his own fear In a dream that shed distilled tears. In a crystal drop Joy flat lined on his cheeks, But he hugged that smile in […]
A Dogs Love Is a Never Ending Game by Stacey Chillemi
As I stand beneath the open sky As the heat from the sun pours deep into my soul I quickly stare at the snakeskin clouds that fill the deep blue skies above “Woof! Woof!” My big blue eyes quickly gaze straight ahead Into the big green fields that circle around us Here comes my dog […]
A Carta/The Letter by Soaroir de Campos
A Carta/The Letter by Soaroir de Campos me postei dormente em torrão de turfa seca como resto de amaryllis esperando Maio. lembra-se? as cores estão se transmutando o céu já é azul-inverno tudo por brotar – do estômago às órbitas esperando resposta. Free Translation by Soaroir The Letter I laid dormant in Dry-turf clay As […]
I stood musing in a black world by Stephen Crane
I stood musing in a black world, Not knowing where to direct my feet. And I saw the quick stream of men Pouring ceaselessly, Filled with eager faces, A torrent of desire. I called to them, “Where do you go? What do you see?” A thousand voices called to me. A thousand fingers pointed. “Look! […]
I saw a man pursuing the horizon by Stephen Crane
I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. “It is futile,” I said, “You can never -“ “You lie,” he cried, And ran on. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. […]
I met a seer by Stephen Crane
I met a seer. He held in his hands The book of wisdom. “Sir,” I addressed him, “Let me read.” “Child — ” he began. “Sir,” I said, “Think not that I am a child, For already I know much Of that which you hold. Aye, much.” He smiled. Then he opened the book And […]
I looked here by Stephen Crane
I looked here; I looked there; Nowhere could I see my love. And — this time — She was in my heart. Truly, then, I have no complaint, For though she be fair and fairer, She is none so fair as she In my heart. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem […]
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, by Stephen Crane
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, The sweep of each sad lost wave, The dwindling boom of the steel thing’s striving, The little cry of a man to a man, A shadow falling across the greyer night, And the sinking of the small star; Then the waste, the far waste of […]
God lay dead in heaven by Stephen Crane
God lay dead in heaven; Angels sang the hymn of the end; Purple winds went moaning, Their wings drip-dripping With blood That fell upon the earth. It, groaning thing, Turned black and sank. Then from the far caverns Of dead sins Came monsters, livid with desire. They fought, Wrangled over the world, A morsel. But […]
God fashioned the ship of the world carefully. by Stephen Crane
God fashioned the ship of the world carefully. With the infinite skill of an All-Master Made He the hull and the sails, Held He the rudder Ready for adjustment. Erect stood He, scanning His work proudly. Then — at fateful time — a wrong called, And God turned, heeding. Lo, the ship, at this opportunity, […]
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground by Stephen Crane
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground. Why do you stand, expectant? Do you hope to see it In one of your withered days? With your old eyes Do you hope to see The triumphal march of justice? Do not wait, friend! Take your white beard And your old eyes To more tender lands. ————— […]
Forth went the candid man by Stephen Crane
Forth went the candid man And spoke freely to the wind — When he looked about him he was in a far strange country. Forth went the candid man And spoke freely to the stars — Yellow light tore sight from his eyes. “My good fool,” said a learned bystander, “Your operations are mad.” “You […]
Each small gleam was a voice, by Stephen Crane
Each small gleam was a voice, A lantern voice — In little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold. A chorus of colours came over the water; The wondrous leaf-shadow no longer wavered, No pines crooned on the hills, The blue night was elsewhere a silence, When the chorus of colours came over the water, Little […]
A man went before a strange God by Stephen Crane
A man went before a strange God — The God of many men, sadly wise. And the deity thundered loudly, Fat with rage, and puffing. “Kneel, mortal, and cringe And grovel and do homage To My Particularly Sublime Majesty.” The man fled. Then the man went to another God — The God of his inner […]
A man toiled on a burning road by Stephen Crane
A man toiled on a burning road, Never resting. Once he saw a fat, stupid ass Grinning at him from a green place. The man cried out in rage, “Ah! Do not deride me, fool! I know you — All day stuffing your belly, Burying your heart In grass and tender sprouts: It will not […]
A man saw a ball of gold in the sky by Stephen Crane
A man saw a ball of gold in the sky; He climbed for it, And eventually he achieved it — It was clay. Now this is the strange part: When the man went to the earth And looked again, Lo, there was the ball of gold. Now this is the strange part: It was a […]
A man said to the universe: by Stephen Crane
A man said to the universe: “Sir I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate repository of world poetry. Poetry Monster — the […]
A man feared that he might find an assassin by Stephen Crane
A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate repository of world poetry. Poetry Monster — the multilingual […]