Morning Poem #6 by Wanda Phipps
Morning Poem #6 by Wanda Phipps groggy voice hangover head phone rongs work call money writing muddled thoughts adrenaline rush hands clutch power book pauses comerapid doubts make calls take notes ming push fear waits ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster […]
Morning Poem #59 by Wanda Phipps
Morning Poem #59 by Wanda Phipps forever in bed waiting for heat luring black cat Tristana into trust ————— 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 library of poetic works. Here […]
Morning Poem #43 by Wanda Phipps
Morning Poem #43 by Wanda Phipps I close my eyes and there it is a concrete walkway leading out of a small village hugging the sides of a green green tree filled mountainside and to the right a pipe railing paited the color of oxidized metaland even firther to my right a small beach costline-an […]
Morning Poem #40 by Wanda Phipps
Morning Poem #40 by Wanda Phipps pink around a circle of pink around a shimmer of found reason pink around a glimmering white shaked around a sound blue somehow in the touch of green looped inside loops abound a bound ribbon a hope bow bows in a rare season ————— The End And that’s the […]
Morning Poem #39 by Wanda Phipps
Morning Poem #39 by Wanda Phipps sleep patterns shifting-down late up early interrupted dreams ————— 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 library of poetic works. Here you’ll find original poems, […]
Morning Poem #39 by Wanda Phipps
Morning Poem #39 by Wanda Phipps if she took off her top would that embarrass you would you smile and laugh newvously would there be room on the roof for the orgy if the music was a little louder would you remember the color of her eyes ————— The End And that’s the End of […]
Morning Poem #1 by Wanda Phipps
Morning Poem #1 by Wanda Phipps floating gray web pages step into a crowded vacuum clouds sweating there’s a gauzy scrim in front of my eyes between me and the rest of the world Afternoon birds ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry […]
Your Voice by Walter William Safar
Your Voice by Walter William Safar Where did your voice disappear, man? In the demonic fires of passion? In golden castles of terrible greed? In the dark gorge of vanity? You voices wander the golden mirages, Your tired spirit wanders the golden dusts, Like a warning for the new age; When the golden bell rings […]
The Land Beyond the Rainbow by Walter William Safar
The Land Beyond the Rainbow by Walter William Safar You are calling out for me, road of dreams, To the land beyond the rainbow, where everyone has the right to await Freedom, like all the beautiful mornings that don’t have two cold eyes scathingly looking at Freedom; You are calling out for me, road of […]
Old Homeless Man by Walter William Safar
Old Homeless Man by Walter William Safar I am looking at the funerary procession like a thief, like I’m afraid someone might notice my gaze, I should be down there, along with that silent little procession, but I am treacherously hiding from their eyes and their poverty. Their dry, wrinkled, gray faces look so damn […]
Ode to Poetry by Walter William Safar
Ode to Poetry by Walter William Safar POETRY is the entagler of rainbows in the sky, what is created by imagination untamed in the end the whisper of a strong spirit in the alley of immortality; POETRY is an eternal shadow on the stage of Life what is created by the faithful servant of eternity; […]
Ode to Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
Ode to Mother Nature by Walter William Safar In the service of its majesty- art, I am flying on the wings of verses, From heart to heart of everyone, Because each person’s tear is the same color. Green as a young leaf today, I am holding on to my tree – mankind, Tomorrow as a […]
Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
Mother Nature by Walter William Safar You melt the dreams, Into the liveliest colors of Life. All until the iron curtain; In our souls Emerged into reality. In your blessed chest, I heard the echo of a thousand souls; Your Clouds intertwine, They strained in a wonderful, Sweet despair, Awaiting the first lightning; Your mountains […]
Me, The Wind and the Old Shadow by Walter William Safar
Me, The Wind and the Old Shadow by Walter William Safar Loneliness can wake memories… and force the living to remember those they held dear, their ancestors, those good diligent people who walked the road of dreams with their heads held high towards the promised land… And now these dear people are high up in […]
Lonely Nights by Walter William Safar
Lonely Nights by Walter William Safar Against the old oak I cling my cheek to hear a lost voice inside; The voice of a lost friend, the voice of my lost father and mother, the voice of lost love. And in this lonely night the voices inside the old oak are quiet and inaudible, as […]
Life by Walter William Safar
Life by Walter William Safar Life is a battlefield, and people are warriors faithful to their shadows, just like their shadows are faithful to them, and my shadow is down there at the head of the funerary procession, waiting for me. Copyright ©: Walter William Safar ————— The End And that’s the End of the […]
It’s Beautiful to See Through the Eyes of the Sky by Walter William Safar
It’s Beautiful to See Through the Eyes of the Sky by Walter William Safar You know, my life, how hard it is to serve one’s purpose in the dark. Invisible to the stars and always chased by shadows – left behind by men – I am escaping my own screams of solitude into an even […]
In The Name of Eternal Love by Walter William Safar
In The Name of Eternal Love by Walter William Safar Since you have left, my one and only, the sun became perfectly cold. Its golden heart, completely forgotten, lies in the golden cradle: Oh, Lord, the sun is so cold, it wrapped itself around my heart, like a vampire’s golden claw. Its cold fingers of […]
In the Name of Eternal Love by Walter William Safar
In the Name of Eternal Love by Walter William Safar Since you have left, my one and only, the sun became perfectly cold. Its golden heart, completely forgotten, lies in the golden cradle: Oh, Lord, the sun is so cold, it wrapped itself around my heart, like a vampire’s golden claw. Its cold fingers of […]
Immigrant by Walter William Safar
Immigrant by Walter William Safar Oh, promised land, For whose sake I am leaving Honduras, The place where I was born. I am haunted by my mother’s tired face. Through my realms It floats around me like a dreamlit night, Into my young dreams, When they flowered in bloom, You poured hope into them. Can’t […]
Hope by Walter William Safar
Hope by Walter William Safar It is dreadful to once again fail, to sink into the dark of hopelessness, As if someone fired a canon into your heart, As if you have lost your interior, As if you were empty like a straw man, And you are helplessly waiting for the first bolt To burn […]
Freedom by Walter William Safar
Freedom by Walter William Safar It is good to see You flying there in the abundance of crimson and gold, amidst the great world, agleam with the flush of sunlight. This is why my heart is so full now, I am moved to tears by the thought: “You see, You are the patron of mankind, […]
Forest by Walter William Safar
Forest by Walter William Safar Glory to you, forest, the clover of my youth, you wildly spinned string, here I meet with you again, where the wind sleeps and the ocean effuses your silver leaves, so I can act upon your shadow in whose bowels the respected coal grows, so I can extinguish the fire […]
Cry of the Betrayed Earth by Walter William Safar
Cry of the Betrayed Earth by Walter William Safar From her womb there seems to come the echo of a thousand souls: “The earth is the bone of yours bones, the flesh of your flesh, and the shadow of your existence.” Down in the womb of the earth among the tea bundles and bones, there […]
Christmas Star by Walter William Safar
Christmas Star by Walter William Safar The star cowered In the impenetrable darkness and attempted to slide along the shadowy darkness of lightless star paths. Everything was filled of clouds, which seemed to back off from the light. Way down,at the entrance of the heavenly arch, The timed Christmas star shone. It shone in the […]
Beloved Ireland by Walter William Safar
Beloved Ireland by Walter William Safar How far your dreams are walking While masters whisper out for them, I wonder while watching The blueish shadows in awe, Twirling around you, beloved Ireland, As if you were a slender young candle; (Wise men say that shadows are fellow sufferers and travellers to our dreams) How far […]
American Soil by Walter William Safar
American Soil by Walter William Safar American soil, lit by the endlessly distant light of freedom’s torch. Once againe I felt that behind each bush of your blessed coast-tails there is always a new fate awaiting, to melt the dreams into the liveliest colors of life; American soil, you beautiful,green,virginal wreath, with how much bliss […]
America by Walter William Safar
America by Walter William Safar Oh, America, I am praising you with poems at the altar of freedom, I am voicing my verses in crimson forests and golden deserts, Like the echo of an ancient prophecy; You shall be a spiritual home to many faithful! A home to many languages and prayers! A home to […]
Against All Streams by Walter William Safar
Against All Streams by Walter William Safar My dear mister banker, You want to push me into the wild river, To swim downstream, But I’m a strange kind of animal, My hunter, I’ve always been swimming against all streams; When death emerges from its judicial seat To be kissed by solitude, The morning shall start, […]
A window into the world by Walter William Safar
A window into the world by Walter William Safar The crow flaps its dark wings up there, hungryor death, and the dark opened its mouth down there, hungry for poverty. Both are permanent visitors on 134th street, the street of my childhood, where I returned to after fifty years of straying. Nothing has changed, apart […]
A Poem to my Beloved by Walter William Safar
A Poem to my Beloved by Walter William Safar If I had to lie down Onto the black hearse instead of our love, I would agree to die right away, But hope is the last thing to die, Yes, my golden one, I am living with hope That Your tear, like the beautiful moon, shall […]
Year’s End by Weldon Kees
Year’s End by Weldon Kees The state cracked where they left your breath No longer instrument. Along the shore The sand ripped up, and the newer blood Streaked like a vein to every monument. The empty smoke that drifted near the guns Where the stiff motor pounded in the mud Had the smell of a […]
The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees
The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees It must have been in March the rug wore through. Now the day passes and I stare At warped pine boards my father’s father nailed, At the twisted grain. Exposed, where emptiness allows, Are the wormholes of eighty years; four generations’ shoes Stumble and scrape and fall To the […]
The Smiles Of The Bathers by Weldon Kees
The Smiles Of The Bathers by Weldon Kees The smiles of the bathers fade as they leave the water, And the lover feels sadness fall as it ends, as he leaves his love. The scholar, closing his book as the midnight clock strikes, is hollow and old: The pilot’s relief on landing is no release. […]
The Furies by Weldon Kees
The Furies by Weldon Kees Not a third that walks beside me, But five or six or more. Whether at dusk or daybreak Or at blinding noon, a retinue Of shadows that no door Excludes.–One like a kind of scrawl, Hands scrawled trembling and blue, A harelipped and hunchbacked dwarf With a smile like a […]
The Doctor Will Return by Weldon Kees
The Doctor Will Return by Weldon Kees The surgical mask, the rubber teat Are singed, give off an evil smell. You seem to weep more now that heat Spreads everywhere we look. It says here none of us is well. The warty spottings on the figurines Are nothing you would care to claim. You seem […]
The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees The tower bell in the Tenth Street Church Rang out nostalgia for the refugee Who knew the source of bells by sound. We liked it, but in ignorance. One meets authorities on bells infrequently. Europe alone made bells with such a tone, Herr Mannheim said. The bell Struck […]
The Beach by Weldon Kees
The Beach by Weldon Kees Squat, unshaven, full of gas, Joseph Samuels, former clerk in four large cities, out of work, waits in the darkened underpass. In sanctuary, out of reach, he stares at the fading light outside: the rain beginning: hears the tide that drums along the empty beach. When drops first fell at […]
Round by Weldon Kees
Round by Weldon Kees “Wondrous life!” cried Marvell at Appleton House. Renan admired Jesus Christ “wholeheartedly.” But here dried ferns keep falling to the floor, And something inside my head Flaps like a worn-out blind. Royal Cortssoz is dead. A blow to the Herald-Tribune. A closet mouse Rattles the wrapper on the breakfast food. Renan […]
Robinson by Weldon Kees
Robinson by Weldon Kees The dog stops barking after Robinson has gone. His act is over. The world is a gray world, Not without violence, and he kicks under the grand piano, The nightmare chase well under way. The mirror from Mexico, stuck to the wall, Reflects nothing at all. The glass is black. Robinson […]