The Beautiful Heartbreak by Talha Jafri
When the heart aches everyone thinks to the time where the heart achieved so much It’s unable to fathom the fact that it is broken and needs to cured But we carry on through each day routinely Unable to bare the pain, we shield ourselves in the heartbreak We listen to the world’s melody to […]
Snow Flakes by Tala Bar
Gently falls the snow, and Bouncing – My swift, white sisters Dancing Cold, but Melting in the Sun, appearing for A second. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Selecting A Reader by Ted Kooser
Selecting A Reader by Ted Kooser First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. […]
Seasons by Tala Bar
I don’t believe in good and evil – Cool is the August Moon; I don’t believe in good and evil – On Midsummer noon; I don’t believe in good and evil – Flowery May so cries; I don’t believe in good and evil When my lover dies. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Ritual by Tala Bar
From my peak of a mountain I see you, all. God is sad, but Life awakens my laughter And I laugh the sadness of life. In my heart of a mountain A cry is born, in time! The procession passes in slow motion Round and round the mountain; We bury my god, in time! At […]
Passion of Greatness by Terence Ray Robertson
Roses comes in pairs. Left off from the weeds, Cherish yourself cherish your seeds. Left behind, leave a trail to follow the scents of this love. Give in to this love watch it bloom forth. As queens move foward This battle is not yours. ————— The End And that’s the […]
On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. by Thom Gunn
On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. by Thom Gunn The blue jay scuffling in the bushes follows Some hidden purpose, and the gush of birds That spurts across the field, the wheeling swallows, Have nested in the trees and undergrowth. Seeking their instinct, or their pose, or both, One moves with an uncertain violence […]
My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn
My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn One by one they appear in the darkness: a few friends, and a few with historical names. How late they start to shine! but before they fade they stand perfectly embodied, all the past lapping them like a cloak of chaos. They were men who, I thought, lived only […]
Meeting at an Airport by Taha Muhammad Ali
You asked me once, on our way back from the midmorning trip to the spring: “What do you hate, and who do you love?” And I answered, from behind the eyelashes of my surprise, my blood rushing like the shadow cast by a cloud of starlings: “I hate departure . . . I love the […]
Lucid Dreams by Talha Jafri
Can we pretend that this isn’t a dream, but a reality that tries to persists even against all my will? Now let’s go back to the days where situations weren’t so complicated With age, wisdom comes, but with age comes complications and emotions Emotions transform into whatever society wants it to become We had simpler […]
Love In Reverse by Talha Jafri
There is no love lost here, I have moved on with a smile on my face Illustrating the pain I went through with the ballsy attitude of trying to make things better for me I often narrate so that I could make things better for all of us Love ends up to be the course […]
Love Equals Insanity by Talha Jafri
Who would have guessed that having feelings for another person would be so hard? Humans don’t tend to think so far ahead when they fall for someone The present is all that matters and when the future begins to loom, Relationships unravel. Can’t understand why, but serious commitment requires hard work If it’s worth the […]
Light by Tala Bar
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Last Poem by Ted Berrigan
Last Poem by Ted Berrigan Before I began life this time I took a crash course in Counter-Intelligence Once here I signed in, see name below, and addedSome words remembered from an earlier time, ‘The intention of the organism is to survive.’ My earliest, & happiest, memories pre-date WWII,They involve a glass slipper & a […]
In January by Ted Kooser
In January by Ted Kooser Only one cell in the frozen hive of night is lit, or so it seems to us: this Vietnamese café, with its oily light, its odors whose colorful shapes are like flowers. Laughter and talking, the tick of chopsticks. Beyond the glass, the wintry city creaks like an ancient wooden […]
I Want It Now by Roald Dahl
Gooses, geeses I want my geese to lay gold eggs for easter At least a hundred a day And by the way I want a feast I want a bean feast Cream buns and doughnuts And fruitcake with no nuts So good you could go nuts No, now I want a ball I want a […]
Exodus by Taha Muhammad Ali
The street is empty as a monk’s memory, and faces explode in the flames like acorns— and the dead crowd the horizon and doorways. No vein can bleed more than it already has, no scream will rise higher than it’s already risen. We will not leave! Everyone outside is waiting for the trucks and the […]
Considering The Snail by Thom Gunn
Considering The Snail by Thom Gunn The snail pushes through a green night, for the grass is heavy with water and meets over the bright path he makes, where rain has darkened the earth’s dark. He moves in a wood of desire, pale antlers barely stirring as he hunts. I cannot tell what power is […]
Broken Love by Talha Jafri
Caressing her soft skin, The passion in the air was exciting, His heart beating faster than a drum solo Whispers into her ears, I love you. The worst things in life come at no cost for us She looked back at the day when their eyes met An average day with an above average human […]
Black Market Love by Taisha Destin
Black Market Love by Taisha Destin Let me break it down like this He was a lean, clean charming machine Ladies you know what I mean From the way he talked to the style of his walk He stood tall as if he ruled the campus, I mean world I was nothing more than the […]
Attention please! Attention please! by Roald Dahl
‘Attention please! Attention please! Don’t dare to talk! Don’t dare to sneeze! Don’t doze or daydream! Stay awake! Your health, your very life’s at stake! Ho–ho, you say, they can’t mean me. Ha–ha, we answer, wait and see. Did any of you ever meet A child called Goldie Pinklesweet? Who on her seventh birthday went […]
An Act of Faith by Talha Jafri
This has all the implications tied to me that I ran away from for so long I can’t seem to fathom why I put myself in this position Going through a mess of insecurities just so that I put myself in the spotlight Now that’s been missing from me for so long, I’ve seem to […]
After Years by Ted Kooser
After Years by Ted Kooser Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face of a glacier slid into the sea. An ancient oak fell in the Cumberlands, holding only a handful of leaves, and an old woman scattering corn to her chickens looked up for an instant. […]
Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali
In his life he neither wrote nor read. In his life he didn’t cut down a single tree, didn’t slit the throat of a single calf. In his life he did not speak of the New York Times behind its back, didn’t raise his voice to a soul except in his saying: “Come in, please, […]
A Ghost in the Shell by Talha Jafri
I resemble a familiar feeling A ghost in the shell waiting for the walls to come crashing down But like a waterfall, the beauty that falls ends up being the most destructive And when I fell for you, it ended up being my self destruction I defined myself to be by your side Changing to […]
10 Things I Do Every Day by Ted Berrigan
10 Things I Do Every Day by Ted Berrigan wake up smoke potsee the cat love my wife think of Frank eat lunch make noisessing songs go out dig the streets go home for dinner read the Post make pee-pee two kids grin read bookssee my friendsget pissed-offhave a Pepsi disappear ————— The End And […]
Specula by Thomas Edward Brown
Specula by Thomas Edward Brown When He appoints to meet thee, go thou forth— It matters not If south or north, Bleak waste or sunny plot. Nor think, if haply He thou seek’st be late, He does thee wrong. To stile or gate Lean thou thy head, and long! It may be that to spy […]
Salve! by Thomas Edward Brown
Salve! by Thomas Edward Brown TO live within a cave–it is most good; But, if God make a day, And some one come, and say, ‘Lo! I have gather’d faggots in the wood!’ E’en let him stay, And light a fire, and fan a temporal mood! So sit till morning! when the light is grown […]
Risus Dei by Thomas Edward Brown
Risus Dei by Thomas Edward Brown Methinks in Him there dwells alway A sea of laughter very deep, Where the leviathans leap, And little children play, Their white feet twinkling on its crisped edge; But in the outer bay The strong man drives the wedge Of polished limbs, And swims. Yet there is one will […]
Pain by Thomas Edward Brown
Pain by Thomas Edward Brown The Man that hath great griefs I pity not; ’Tis something to be great In any wise, and hint the larger state, Though but in shadow of a shade, God wot! Moreover, while we wait the possible, This man has touched the fact, And probed till he has felt the […]
Opifex by Thomas Edward Brown
Opifex by Thomas Edward Brown As I was carving images from clouds, And tinting them with soft ethereal dyes Pressed from the pulp of dreams, one comes, and cries:– “Forbear!” and all my heaven with gloom enshrouds. “Forbear!” Thou hast no tools wherewith to essay The delicate waves of that elusive grain: Wouldst have due […]
My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot– The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not– Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign; ‘Tis very sure God walks in […]
Land, Ho! by Thomas Edward Brown
Land, Ho! by Thomas Edward Brown I know ’tis but a loom of land, Yet is it land, and so I will rejoice, I know I cannot hear His voice Upon the shore, nor see Him stand; Yet is it land, ho! land. The land! the land! the lovely land! ‘Far off,’ dost say? Far […]
Jessie by Thomas Edward Brown
Jessie by Thomas Edward Brown WHEN Jessie comes with her soft breast, And yields the golden keys, Then is it as if God caress’d Twin babes upon His knees– Twin babes that, each to other press’d, Just feel the Father’s arms, wherewith they both are bless’d. But when I think if we must part, And […]
If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown If thou could’st empty all thyself of self, Like to a shell dishabited, Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf, And say, “This is not dead,” And fill thee with Himself instead. But thou are all replete with very thou And […]
Ibant Obscur? by Thomas Edward Brown
Ibant Obscur? by Thomas Edward Brown To-night I saw three maidens on the beach, Dark-robed descending to the sea, So slow, so silent of all speech, And visible to me Only by that strange drift-light, dim, forlorn, Of the sun’s wreck and clashing surges born. Each after other went, And they were gathered to his […]
I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown
I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown I bended unto me a bough of May, That I might see and smell: It bore it in a sort of way, It bore it very well. But, when I let it backward sway, Then it were hard to tell With what a toss, with […]
Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
Dora by Thomas Edward Brown SHE knelt upon her brother’s grave, My little girl of six years old– He used to be so good and brave, The sweetest lamb of all our fold; He used to shout, he used to sing, Of all our tribe the little king– And so unto the turf her ear […]
Disguises by Thomas Edward Brown
Disguises by Thomas Edward Brown High stretched upon the swinging yard, I gather in the sheet; But it is hard And stiff, and one cries haste. Then He that is most dear in my regard Of all the crew gives aidance meet; But from His hands, and from His feet, A glory spreads wherewith the […]
Time of Roses by Thomas Hood
Time of Roses by Thomas Hood It was not in the Winter Our loving lot was cast; It was the time of roses— We pluck’d them as we pass’d! That churlish season never frown’d On early lovers yet: O no—the world was newly crown’d With flowers when first we met! ‘Twas twilight, and I bade […]