Prayers by Rainbow Reed
Jimmy Choos’ stalked across the floor, Ripping, clawing against the antiqued oak, Stuttered, stiffened; listened to deep silence Then slowly circled, nowhere once more. The gold straps coiled around her calf’s, Winding, binding, painfully twisting… D. and G. suit clinging about her, Her grey silk blouse rustled in the breeze, While around her stalk, staccato […]
Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe ice sheets sweep this slick mirrored dark place space as keys that turn in tight, trigger pain of situations where we move ever so slowly so gently into time — traced agony the bright turning of imagination so slowly grooved through revolving doors, opening up to enter mountains where […]
Untitled by Quincy Troupe
Untitled by Quincy Troupe in brussels, eye sat in the grand place cafe & heard duke’s place, played after salsa between the old majestic architecture, jazz bouncing off all that gilded gold history snoring complacently there flowers all over the ground, up inside the sound the old white band jammin the music tight & heavy, […]
Poem Reaching For Something by Quincy Troupe
Poem Reaching For Something by Quincy Troupe we walk through a calligraphy of hats slicing off foreheads ace-deuce cocked, they slant, razor sharp, clean through imagination, our spirits knee-deep in what we have forgotten entrancing our bodies now to dance, like enraptured water lilies the rhythm in liquid strides of certain looks eyeballs rippling through […]
I Hardly Remember by Rafael Guillen
I Hardly Remember by Rafael Guillen I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry you in my depths, trapped in the sludge like one of those corpses the sea refuses to give up. It was a spoiled remnant of the South. A beach […]
Not Fear by Rafael Guillen
Not Fear by Rafael Guillen Not fear. Maybe, out there somewhere, the possibility of fear; the wall that might tumble down, because it’s for sure that behind it is the sea. Not fear. Fear has a countenance; It’s external, concrete, like a rifle, a shot bolt, a suffering child, like the darkness that’s hidden in […]
Online Lover by Rainbow Reed
City sounds screamed and swirled, Sirens raced through neon world, Shutters shook, while ghost trucks sped Lewd vacant sign flashed deep red. Her laptop buzzed and flickered, While angry parents bickered. She stared at the screen entranced, Red electric shadows danced. Angry voices drifted near, Pa sailed in on wave of fear, “Switch that off!” […]
One Day You Will Miss Me.. by Rahul S
My love is not supposed to miss you Like the Tom misses the Jerry every time.. It’s like a clock; we are in the same perimeter But we can’t stay close to each other. One day you will miss me, And it will be same as missing your shadow.. You will miss my talks, And […]
O my Lord by Rabi’a
O my Lord, the stars glitter and the eyes of men are closed. Kings have locked their doors and each lover is alone with his love. Here, I am alone with You. O my Lord, if I worship you from fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I worship you from hope of Paradise, […]
Not Fear by Rafael Guillen
Not Fear by Rafael Guillen Not fear. Maybe, out there somewhere, the possibility of fear; the wall that might tumble down, because it’s for sure that behind it is the sea. Not fear. Fear has a countenance; It’s external, concrete, like a rifle, a shot bolt, a suffering child, like the darkness that’s hidden in […]
My Eyes in the Time of Apparition by Rachel McKibbens
Curse the steady mice who feast upon ____________my son’s gray matter— __________________those soft purveyors of wickedness, ____________mutilators of my womb, ______mutilators of an empty chapel. Praise the sirens of widening synapses, ______who beckoned my boy to fall, ____________then drift, upstream __________________to sleep without song & awaken _______________________savant: a piano angel hypnotist, __________________miracle hands ____________fraught with […]
Mrs. Mouse has glasses by R. L. KARLOWSKY
Mrs. Mouse has glasses by R. L. KARLOWSKY Mrs. Mouse was very distraught, her glasses were missing, she simply forgot. She looked in her pocket, her purse and her sweater, I can’t believe I misplaced them, you’d think I knew better. Mrs. Duck quacked along with her ducklings in tow, what’s wrong Mrs. Mouse, why […]
Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
How much she lives in me with me or without me,she is full of life An incomplete man caught in cold strife but, she lives in me like a dream alive! How thoughtless, careless I have been spreading the naughtiness around she whipped me tough, with her eye lash without a whimper or a sound! […]
Most Precious by R. L. Karlowsky
Most Precious by R. L. Karlowsky I sought through the world those things most precious, of praise of possessions and things prestigious. I would look in the earth and curse the sky, when plans I made would not comply. When I was young my dreams so grand, life would later teach, it was not what […]
Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens
1. Santa Ana, California, 3 a.m. in my cousin’s basement, lights out, television volume spun low. We are huddled around the screen, a small congregation of forgotten children, brown faces illuminated by a five-foot-two Black man, decked out in lace, eyeliner, Spandex and the gutsiest high-heeled boots big enough to fit only a mannequin. This […]
Meditation by Radames Antonio Cruz
Imagine for a second That this moment extended Infinitely along a line And that we could dwell in it Observe and reflect With no regrets While suspended in time The past not a burden The future uncertain While present Is presence of mind Oneness with your soul Which is one with the whole Coalesced with […]
Manipulation by Radames Antonio Cruz
They paint a pretty picture of hatred Horrific portrait of love The inner city the matrix The farmland in a flood Forcing kids to be Christmas trees Cut down where they stood Congratulations to the wicked On the humiliation of good Please excuse my politeness Let’s laugh at the men who trust And together ridicule […]
intertwined by rachel wright
TO souls intertwined together like lace two hearts beating as one bodies linked, to minds in synced the love that we make is oh so sweet with love and passion that runs through deep the true love we find is intertwined in both of us together each touch that we feel is soft like a […]
I Hardly Remember by Rafael Guillen
I Hardly Remember by Rafael Guillen I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you floats in some remote current of my blood. I carry you in my depths, trapped in the sludge like one of those corpses the sea refuses to give up. It was a spoiled remnant of the South. A beach […]
Homecoming of Love on the Sands by Rafael Alberti
Homecoming of Love on the Sands by Rafael Alberti This morning, my love, we are twenty years old. Let us go, very slowly, braiding together Our barefoot shadows, on paths through orchards That face the blue of the sea with all their greenness. You ar almost an apparition, The same one which came once in […]
Hex by Rachel McKibbens
The bitch in the photograph wears my face. I cut off my nose, her nose collapses. Chop down my hair & hers shrieks from the sink. How many poems do I have to write ‘til she gets dead, how many live-wire syllables? I drive a fork into her heart & she comes back a quart […]
From Marinero en tierra by Rafael Alberti
From Marinero en tierra by Rafael Alberti The waves, blue walls of Africa, go and come back. When they go… Ah, to go with them! Ah, to come back with them! When they come back… ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster […]
EVENING… by R.M. Engelhardt
EVENING… by R.M. Engelhardt EVENING Evening… You kill me. Slow pulse, slow your image still burning Still. Ouiet, As all these voices come out Into the dark, at night. My love, my sadness… ‘Night’ You, more than just another dance With the moon. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
El Cafetal by Rafael Guillen
El Cafetal by Rafael Guillen I came with the rising sun and I’ve brought nothing but two eyes, all I have, simply two eyes, for the harvest of grief that’s hidden in this jungle like the coffee shrubs. Fewer, but they fling themselves upwards, untouchable, are the trees that invidiously shut out the light from […]
Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949 by Rachel McKibbens
The Mad Girls climb the wet hill, breathe the sharp air through sick-green lungs. The Wildest One wanders off like an old cow and finds a steaming breast inside a footprint in the snow. She slips it into her glove, holds it close like a darling. At night, she suckles the lavender tit, still warm […]
zen: a very short history by Raj Arumugam
dhyana went to China from China Ch’an went to Japan and Japan gave the world Zen Copyright ©: Raj Arumugam ————— 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 […]
you witness my dying by Raj Arumugam
you witness my dying by Raj Arumugam you witness my dying as you see my life, my hopes and desires and all my embarrassments and my achievements too, dear moon O quiet presence, O radiant presence all one’s life; and what do you look at these days in my life darling moon what do you […]
you say you love the earth by Raj Arumugam
you say you love the earth love the ocean but you don’t really do otherwise you wouldn’t have pissed poison in there; and even when you protest you do, you do you just love it for your own and so I’m taking it away from you you say you love the skies but do you […]
you are there moon by Raj Arumugam
you are there moon by Raj Arumugam you are there moon; I thought you were not and I went to sleep and I sighed: “She will not come, not tonight; she has some other lover”; and I went to sleep and then much later now I wake up and you’ve come, out there and your […]
word of God by Raj Arumugam
I never speak of God but people keep telling me about God and they keep telling me: This is the Word of God! Or they brandish a Book before me and they say: This is the Final Word of God! But I say: Look, I’ve just had a Revelation; God has just spoken to me; […]
women picking edible plants by Raj Arumugan
a little more haste, neighbor, as we pick edible plants on these slopes of the mountains; the air is fresh and the delicate plants abundant enough though one has to humble oneself by leaning down to these rare ones; we will bring them home and some we can eat fresh and raw and most we […]
what I want to know by Raj Arumugam
what I want to know what I’d really like to know before I drop down dead or crawl into amnesia or alzheimer’s or whatever; what I really want to know (if I can remember it; let me see if I can recall it, refresh please…. try and retrieve it from the backwaters of my mind) […]
what a poet must do by Raj Arumugam
a poet, it is said, must be pure and holy; a poet, it is decreed, must bring truth and clarity; a poet, it is declared, must use words good and sublime; a poet, it is said must choose subjects that are sanctioned and chaste like the moon and stars and butterflies and innocent creatures of […]
was it you, mooon? by Raj Arumugam
was it you, mooon? by Raj Arumugam cold moon I am sad; was it you, distant moon, who made me so tonight? Copyright ©: Raj Arumugam ————— 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 […]
walking with a staff by Raj Arumugam
walking with a staff by Raj Arumugam I did not want the courts and the life of the cities and I did not want the struggle but I did not leave – perhaps it was me that saw the tension but could not come into integrity and put the blame on duty, care and responsibility […]
The village girl models for the artist, 1904 by Raj Arumugam
You want me to talk, Sir? I’d relax and you can paint better, Sir? Maybe, Sir…maybe, but what shall I say, Sir? For I am not used to talking to important people like you, Sir… Why do you laugh, Sir? It is true, I’m just a girl from the village, Sir attending to Laxmi and […]
The Discovery of the Kama Sutra by Raj Arumugam
Part 1 At the Saint’s Book Store (Singapore, 1970) when I was just 15 and just after a trip to the National Library I saw a slim volume at the Saint’s Book Store (named after a TV series and true to the borrowed name, a second-hand book store) and its spine said: Kama Sutra Now […]
Taking yourself too seriously by Raj Arumugam
OK, granted, you got to take yourself seriously or no one will – but take yourself too seriously and you’re like a cracking statue about to crumble there’s too much really of people running around taking themselves too seriously pushing themselves forward putting their faces to the forefront almost pushing it against other people’s arses […]
Sohni and her love Mahinwal by Raj Arumugam
Sohni and her love Mahinwal by Raj Arumugam Sohni’s heart pines for Mahinwal for she loves him beyond all things earthly By day she paints flowers on the pots her father makes O Sohni’s heart is always filled with love And by night she swims across with a pot to help her float and she […]
sadness from the night by Raj Arumugam
sadness from the night by Raj Arumugam last night as the clouds spread thin breaking like long dry leaves long in the open there was a loneliness; last night as the street lights cast their glow on the walls and their fingertips touched my lips there was a sadness; last night as the cool wind […]