Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
Once Was a Singer for God (Remembering Nekia) by Aberjhani 1. Once you were a singer for God– yes, you, who within your mother’s womb dodged the hooks and poison sent to eclipse your light before it shined; who, abandoned in a field of serpents clapped hands to the hissing of fanged […]
Subjective Genocide by Marie Starr
Why is it you can buy your kids buckets of Cowboys and Indians to play with? But you could never, would never, even if you could, buy them buckets of Jews and Nazis, of Serbs and Croatians, of Tutsi and Hutu. Copyright ©: 2003 End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject […]
Death Fugue by Paul Celan
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at nightfall we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night we drink it and drink it we are digging a grave in the sky it is ample to lie there A man in the house he plays with the serpents he writes he […]
Elijah by Peter Bardsley
Elijah was a prophet of the God of Israel That he had many enemies it is not hard to tell. The foremost was the wicked queen whose name was Jezebel. Ahab refused to trust the Lord and with him have compliancePreferring with a heathen neighbour to make a close alliance; To seal the deal he […]
An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour by Robert Herrick
In numbers, and but these few, I sing thy birth, oh JESU! Thou pretty Baby, born here, With sup’rabundant scorn here; Who for thy princely port here, Hadst for thy place Of birth, a base Out-stable for thy court here. Instead of neat enclosures Of interwoven osiers; Instead of fragrant posies Of daffadils and roses, […]
Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby. II. What else should he be set […]
Interrupted Meditation by Robert Hass
Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside. And the sinewy clear water rushing over creekstone of the palest amber, veined with a darker gold, thinnest lines of gold rivering through the amber like—ah, now we come to it. We were not put on earth, the old man said, he was hacking into the crust […]
My Views of Man by Ronald G. Auguste
My Views of Man RGAaPoet@aol.com (For All the Rulers on this Earth) Man is the lowest form of life on Earth! Man frequently is mindless – Vile from birth! Man treats Man’s kind worse than the lower forms. Man’s ruthless traits have all become Man’s norms. Man’s now … despite Man’s deeds … of little […]
Mary’s Song by Sylvia Plath
The Sunday lamb cracks in its fat. The fat Sacrifices its opacity. . . . A window, holy gold. The fire makes it precious, The same fire Melting the tallow heretics, Ousting the Jews. Their thick palls float Over the cicatrix of Poland, burnt-out Germany. They do not die. Grey birds obsess my heart, Mouth-ash, […]
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An Incantation by Thomas Moore
Come with me, and we will blow Lots of bubbles, as we go; Bubbles bright as ever Hope Drew from fancy — or from soap; Bright as e’er the South Sea sent from its frothy element! Come with me, and we will blow Lots of bubbles, as we go. Mix the lather, Johnny W–lks, Thou, […]
Reproof: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
POET. Howe’er I turn, or wheresoe’er I tread, This giddy world still rattles round my head! I pant for silence e’en in this retreat- Good Heaven! what demon thunders at the gate? FRIEND. In vain you strive, in this sequester’d nook, To shroud you from an injured friend’s rebuke. POET. An injured friend! who challenges […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
LXXXVI “But if our sins us of his help deprive, Of his high justice let no mercy fall; Yet should our deaths us some contentment give, To die, where Christ received his burial, So might we die, not envying them that live; So would we die, not unrevenged all: Nor Turks, nor Christians, if we […]
On the Circuit by W. H. Auden
Among pelagian travelers, Lost on their lewd conceited way To Massachusetts, Michigan, Miami or L.A., An airborne instrument I sit, Predestined nightly to fulfill Columbia-Giesen-Management’s Unfathomable will, By whose election justified, I bring my gospel of the Muse To fundamentalists, to nuns, to Gentiles and to Jews, And daily, seven days a week, Before a […]
Salut au Monde. by Walt Whitman
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join’d unended links, each hook’d to the next! Each answering all—each sharing the earth with all. What widens within you, Walt Whitman? What waves and soils exuding? What climes? what persons and lands are here? Who are the infants? some […]
I Don’t Know If History Repeats Itself by Yehuda Amichai
I don’t Know if history repeats itself But I do know that you don’t. I remember that city was didvided Not only between Jews and Arabs, But Between me and you, When we were there together. We made ourselves a womb of dangers We built ourselves a house of deadening wars Like men of far […]
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL BY WILLIAM BLAKE [lwptoc] THE ARGUMENT RINTRAH roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep. Once meek, and in a perilous path The just man kept his course along The Vale of Death. Roses are planted […]
The Prioress’s Tale [from Chaucer] by William Wordsworth
“Call up him who left half told The story of Cambuscan bold.” I “O LORD, our Lord! how wondrously,” (quoth she) “Thy name in this large world is spread abroad! For not alone by men of dignity Thy worship is performed and precious laud; But by the mouths of children, gracious God! Thy goodness is […]