Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
Through your lens the sequoia swallowed me like a dryad. The camera flashed & forgot. I, on the other hand, must practice my absent- mindedness, memory being awkward as a touch that goes unloved. Lately your eyes have shut down to a shade more durable than skin’s. I know you love distance, how it smooths. […]
Wibble Wobble poem – Alexander E Musset poems | Poetry Monster
If you’ve got a bowl of jelly, Quickly put it in your belly, Just in case it might wobble away, Because when it wibble wobbles, It might cause a lot of trouble, If it falls on the floor, And slides away, Your dog might have a gobble, And start to wibble wobble, And […]
Why?
by Alex Gross You’ve asked me already. Yet you want to know. What need have you to question Everything I say and do? Being conventional is overrated. Why? you ask. Because I must be myself. Do I Tell you to learn to play An Instrument that no One has heard of? […]
Where Are You?
by Alex Gross This is the time when I text you I’m bored in this hallway all alone. I need to see your familiar smiley face emoticon But you’re not here, Where Are You? This is the time when you call me. I hear your little voice: “We’re here, Alex, I […]
Terrible Ted poem – Alexander E. Musset poems | Poetry Monster
Terrible Ted was really bad, He broke every toy he ever had, He would: Bash them and smash them! Crash them and trash them! And terrible things like that. He would: Bite off their heads, Pull off their legs, And set them on fire with a match. But you see, […]
Tell Me
by Alex Gross Don’t walk away from me. I’m trying to talk to you. I know what you’re feeling, But I don’t know what is Going on in your head. Please tell me. It’s obvious I’ve upset you, So don’t pretend I haven’t. I know you well enough To know when […]
Teacher
by Alex Gross I remember when I feared you. I Always thought I was inferior, And that sooner or later, you would Find out. I remember when I distrusted you. I always thought I was wrong in some Way. And that sooner or later, you would Find out. I remember […]
Sleep
by Alex Gross I’m waiting for you to come to me. I’ve done everything in my power To Please you. It’s cold, and dark, just Like you like it. Now why Don’t you come to me? It’s four AM and I feel like shit. This is when I want you the […]
Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
Many see a flutterby when they look into this omniscience I see as a skinniness too densely drawn or a mystery unhinged by its own symmetry, a twinning I think of as a listener that thinks along with me, fused in a tweed, a red herring- bone weave in the dazzling darkness and bleached […]
Inside/Outside The Window
by Alexander Russo Two horses grazing in a distant field. Closer up, a few leaves twisting on a branch. The leaves begin to take on A strange new presence: crinkled, stubborn face. One resembles a monster, paying off a bad Kharmic debt. It groans, swaying back and forth, like the broken […]
Industrial Lace poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
The city had such pretty clotheslines. Women aired their intimate apparel in the emery haze: membranes of lingerie— pearl, ruby, copper slips— their somehow intestinal quivering in the wind. And Freihofer’s spread the chaste, apron scent of baking, a sensual net over a few yards of North Troy. The city had Niagara […]
Do You Know What It’s Like
by Alexandra Gross Do you know what it’s like To be different? To never Feel quite right with people? To be in a crowd and yet utterly Alone? To wish for someone Who understands you completely, And come to the realisation that No such person exists? I do. Do you know […]
That devil of a man
by Alexander McConnell Many were wiser and many tried to advise her, and many tried to save the heart and soul of the child who had fallen for the wild, wild and wicked devil of a man Many were wiser and many tried to make her see, and many tried to […]
Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
we had to read the instructions as we sank. In a hand like carded lace. Not nuclear warheads on the sea’s floor nor the violet flow over the reactor will outlive this sorrowful rhyme. Vain halo! My project becalmed, I’ll find I’ve built a monument more passing than a breeze. It will cost us, Pobrecito. […]
Aplogize
by Alex Gross This is a question to teachers. Why does everyone make kids Apologize to other kids? It doesn’t make sense if you consider it. If I am little Ally, and I pushed little Timmy You make me apologize; you don’t punish me. I’m not sorry. Don’t tell me to […]
Alone
by Alex Gross What do you say when you Are with people? You say you Want to be alone. What do you say When you are alone? You say you Want to be with people. I’ll tell you why that is. It’s because You are never alone. Your thoughts Are always […]
About Face poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
Because life’s too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in. I won’t be mortified by what I drive or the flaccid vivacity of my last dinner party. I take my cue from statues posing only in their shoulder pads of snow: all January you can see them working on their granite tans. […]
To the Muse poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) In your hidden memories There are fatal tidings of doom… A curse on sacred traditions, A desecration of happiness; And a power so alluring That I am ready to repeat the rumour That you have brought angels down from […]
Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) Those born in obscure times Do not remember their way. We, children of Russia’s frightful years Cannot forget a thing. Incinerating years!, do you bring tidings of madness or of hope? The days of war, the days of freedom […]
Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) Those born in obscure times Do not remember their way. We, children of Russia’s frightful years Cannot forget a thing. Incinerating years!, do you bring tidings of madness or of hope? The days of war, the days of freedom […]
The Twelve poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) III Our sons have gone to serve the Reds to serve the Reds to risk their heads! O bitter,bitter pain, Sweet living! A torn overcoat an Austrian gun! -To get the bourgeosie We’ll start a fire a worldwide […]
The Faithless Shadows. poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) The faithless shadows of day are running And high and clear is the call of bells, Steps of the church are blazed as with the lightning, Their stones are alive and wait for your light steps. You’ll here pass […]
The Snowy Spring Is Raging Mad poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) The snowy spring is raging mad, I look away from the saga; O, dreadful hour, when she read The palm extended by Tsouniga. Into his eyes she aimed her gaze, There was mockery in her dark eyes, The row […]
Street Circus poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) A small circus is amazing; It’s for kids who are merry and bright; There a girl and a boy’re gazing At the ladies, kings, and droll sprites. … And that terrible music cries over our lot, Despondently howls the […]
The Snowy Spring Is Raging Mad poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) The snowy spring is raging mad, I look away from the saga; O, dreadful hour, when she read The palm extended by Tsouniga. Into his eyes she aimed her gaze, There was mockery in her dark eyes, The row […]
On the Field of Kulicovo poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) The river stretched. It flows, idly grieves, And washes both banks. In steppe, above light clay of cliffs Rinks mourn in ranks. O Russia! Dear wife! With clearness and pain We see the lengthy way! It sent an arrow […]
He, who was born poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) He, who was born in stagnant year Does not remember own way. We, kids of Russia’s years of fear, Remember every night and day. Years that burned everything to ashes! Do you bring madness or grace? The war’s and […]
Halls grew darker poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) Halls grew darker and somehow faded. Grates of windows drowned in black. Every knight, every beautiful lady Knew the tiding: “The Queen’s deadly sick.” And the king, very silent and frowned, Passed the doors, lost of pages and slaves […]
A Girl Sang a Song poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) A girl sang a song in the temple’s chorus, About men, tired in alien lands, About the ships that left native shores, And all who forgot their joy to the end. Thus sang her clean voice, and flew up […]
A Girl Was Singing In A Church Choir poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
A poem by Alexander Block – Alexandre Block – Alexandr Blok – Александр Блок (1880-1921) A girl was singing in a church choir Of the weary people on foreign soil, Of all the ships that sailed aspired, Of all, who have forgotten their joy. So sang her voice, to the cupola reaching, White shoulders […]