The Epic Menageries by MB Moshe
The Epic Menageries by MB Moshe Clouds shape less pleasing, They’re darkness eclipses Heaven’s holes to mock the sun; And the sky gives feeling Like the world’s going to change For better or worse; Their values remain written, Encrypted in clouds too Baggy to keep rain; Choices thunder like hoofs That beat to sixteen counts […]
The Cup of Life by Mike Yuan
fragile never full this cup of life its taste changed completely with only one droplet of dreamwater staring at it square holding it tight against light not a single drop spilt but all the colors missed along my way here rich and brilliant (sept.2, 2004) End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
The Colored Balloon by Mike Yuan
full of youthful air brilliantly beautiful flying elegantly high but ready to burst open when suddenly stung by the needle of reality always sharply pointed End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US Quant.com […]
The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed And leave the yellow bark dust On your pillow. Your breasts and shoulders would reek You could never walk through markets without the profession of my fingers floating over you. The blind would stumble certain of whom they […]
State Fair Time by Michael S Wilson
A profusion of vehicles are maneuvering to park, Bringing food, cheer and surprises to the masses. Colorful stands, wagons and rides add that spark. Vendors struggle to get situated by dark, Hungry crowds are moving like molasses; A profusion of vehicles are maneuvering to park. Soon the crowds cheer, babies cry, dogs bark, They marvel […]
Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje
Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje Speaking to you this hour these days when I have lost the feather of poetry and the rains of separation surround us tock tock like Go tablets Everyone has learned to move carefully ‘Dancing’ ‘laughing’ ‘bad taste’ is a memory a tableau behind trees of law […]
Soulmating by Mike Yuan
too often above the summer night our eyes are like tiny stars burning bright whose light shines deep into each other’s heart but seperated by light years with neither a skybridge to cross nor a cosmic sting to connect in between End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: […]
Since That Summer by Mike Yuan
We jumped naked Into the fond pond Of our boyhoods Where we loved to Loll and wallow Like playing dogs Chasing frogs madly around From one lotus leaf to another Our pants beside the muddy path Blown far away In a hot and humid dream End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
Searching by Mike Yuan
all along all alone i have searched seeking and searching although never sure what i have been exactly looking for like my little son my ever truer self trying to piece together his jigsaw puzzle into a boat of boyhood sailing forward without a map in my mind i have assembled all the edges and […]
Scotland by MB Moshe
Scotland by MB Moshe I’ll remember days like this; When dew found the Greenest hills my eyes have kissed By a sun that Followed Glasgow west to Larges; I loitered long Cool in streets of cobbled stone; I’ll recall days like this when My backpack tore; And my canvas shoes would kick Dip sheep had […]
Ruined World by Michael Yuan
The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. Secretly watching as they Gossip about me. The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. Making up lies To try and be popular. The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. As I think and wonder Why do I live In […]
Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
no, no, a yard sale though i have been putting up here since the sun started to sing but really i am no salesperson by practice or profession not even for a single day yes, just a loonie for that neither because it is beginning right to rain or light to refrain nor because i […]
Promise Ya by Miraj Patel
I can’t promise to reach the skys, but i swear will bring heaven on earth for ya I can’t promise to swim the longest river, but i swear will never let the distance separate us I can’t promise to climb the highest mountains, but swear will never let ya fall I can’t stop the storm, but i […]
Picking Cherries by Mike Yuan
on a summer afternoon i take my little allen far to a field near the forest of some cheerful cherry trees where he could jump wildly on ever-naked soil finger the freshness of fruit and smell the scarlet of nature letting the wanton wind blow hard and straight through his limbs and senses long numbed […]
Outset by Mike Yuan
today, let me suspend all my senses in the warm and cozy glow of the morning huddling up my whole being just as I used to in my mother’s womb End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the […]
Obdurant men, the worst of the abstinant by Miles
Do not let the obdurate brutes their evils sanctify Deflect their cacophonous, forceful tamps Stand not to follow by For the folly of the human peccavi Pollute your being, like law do the tramps Do not let the obdurate villains villify A Wild Demon caught in its hexerai In its jaw your soul it clamps […]
Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje
Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje Since my wife was born she must have eaten the equivalent of two-thirds of the original garden of Eden. Not the dripping lush fruit or the meat in the ribs of animals but the green salad gardens of that place. The whole arena of green […]
Not even a child by Miles
Not even a child by Miles Time after time you asked if I was abandoned We both know it what you would have done if you were sadened with yes there was no exception no criminal sense nothing you could have done to plead your defense with me with you with my mother came almost […]
Nailing by Mike Yuan
each time i pare my nail i feel deeply grateful for its unselfish readiness to die in my stead sparing me the keen sense of the unbearable pain of growth out of those parts of me always younger more romantic and much more memorable spread randomly like unnoticeable seeds sown in the spring soil End […]
My Ink by Mike Yuan
is a blue cement holding the bricks of my days tightly together or the whole house i call home would become loose ready to collapse even without a pull or push End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – […]
Mother’s Death 1981 by Michael S Wilson
She died of that disease so long ago, Taken from us too young it is a fact; She is in a better spot we all know, Escaped to an eternal golden tract. Disease cares not for family concern, Nor plays favorites with any loved one; Good memories nor tender times discern, To pick and choose […]
Money, for a Decent Human Life without You by Mike Yuan
a beautiful beam bride a loyal but spoiled pet a moody morbid master a dull and dumb number you are all this and more a magic finger playing upon every nerve ending an endless thread woven into the fabric of every feeling you are all this, but above all with a green back, a bleeding […]
Migration of the Mind by Mike Yuan
some squatting among thorny bushes some scrawling along a burying tunnel some suffocating below the rusty waterline some trudging on a simmering desert much running in a dark rainforest much struggling in a stormy sea much prisoning in a sealed moving cage much threatening from fists cudgels, knives, bullets and more gnawing of my inwards […]
Mid-Autumn Moon by Mike Yuan
a rounded rainbow trout shining bright and lively until it is cast afar onto the bank of my dream End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US Quant.com – a search engine from France, […]
Meeting with Te Rauparaha by Michael O’Leary
Meeting with Te Rauparaha by Michael O’Leary The early evening finds me Emerging from the water At Paekakariki Beach After swimming long and deep The late summer colours Cover the sky and the hills I am alternately looking from Land to the seaward visage Towards and beyond Kapiti My eyes straight to the horizon: He […]
Matrimony by Mike Yuan
on a sunny rainy afternoon walking alone along a wornout path i overheard a newly old couple trying to talk into another honeymoon yes, marriage is a closed castle those outside long to get in while those inside eager to get out no, marriage is the tip of a fried chicken wing you get little […]
March on, Yes! by Miles
March on, Yes! by Miles March on the people yes we say On toward tomorrows day We Shan’t feel free, though what will be will be Da Dee Da doo da, Away We will march on, the way the people who are esprit That which we shan’t see our ingenous equivocal derivation Valiance be it […]
Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary
Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary The last train is about to leave The last train has left The cradle of Western Civilization is under siege The Euphrates burns, a river of flames The Euphrates burns, set alight by The twin towers of a double burning bush The new manifestation of the West The […]
Ma Wonders by Miraj Patel
If i was to say beautiful, i would just say you, Coz i have never seen someone as beautiful as you, Have known about the seven wonders around the world, but my only wonder is you Even they don’t seem so perfect, as nothing i can find is more perfect then you… If i was […]
Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez
Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez The onion is frost shut in and poor. Frost of your days and of my nights. Hunger and onion, black ice and frost large and round. My little boy was in hunger’s cradle. He was nursed on onion blood. But your blood is frosted with sugar, onion and […]
Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon by Milton Acorn
Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon by Milton Acorn Live with me on Earth among red berries and the bluebirds And leafy young twigs whispering Within such little spaces, between such floors of green, such figures in the clouds That two of us could fill our lives with delicate wanting: Where […]
Life of Paradoxes by Mike Yuan
this is a bewildered and bashful bat seeing with its ears flying without feathers biting, chewing, nd sucking instead of beaking or pecking dreaming on its back more than on its belly although a perfectly normal mammal he has been trying hard to make a bird’s living never wanting to deceive nor attention to receive […]
Languaculture by Mike Yuan
in the overly exploited mine of vocabulary he digs deep his ores hard and shiny at the heavily guarded garden of syntax he keeps pruning his trees dripping with green among the wildly running crowds of sounds he skillfully cowboys his colts cute and lively End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan
Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan when a tenant loses the key to his room in your house of heart you make him one more copy each short but rich poem is a tiny slice casually cut from the juicy apple of life End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
(Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje
On the warm July river head back upside down river for a roof slowly paddling towards an estuary between trees there’s a dog learning to swim near me friends on shore my head dips back to the eyebrow I’m the prow on an ancient vessel, this afternoon I’m going down to Peru soul between my […]
In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan
In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan like an open cage like a free hotel my balcony has become a home to many wild city birds pigeons philosophizing in private seagulls stalking with arrogance crows beaking at unseen seeds sparrows quarreling non-stop on the branched-out railings behind the dusk dyed wall sometimes all alone […]
If You Ask Me by Miraj Patel
If you ask me,Where do i always dreamed about to be.?I’d say,Right next to you,Holding your hands right beside you,Just wanna stay in your arms, with you,ohh baby i just wanna be with you, wanna be with you… If you ask me,How long do i wish to stay.?I’d say,Maybe forever is not enough,Even when the […]
If I Got You by Miraj Patel
I know i have been feeling soo low, Little lost, forgot the way home… But how could i forget that i’m never alone, How could i forget that you always there to catch me when i fall, How could i forget that you always there to hold me alright long, There have never been someone […]
I Wish This Lovely Time Never Ends by Miraj Patel
I cant forget the day we started, I remember when we became friends. Yes, it was a sunday, it dated.. Holding hand together we have walked million miles, I could find nothing better than your sweetest smile.. The days we had, the time we shared, I still can remember the moments we shared.. Not today, […]
I sink as I sail magnificently by Michael Nikoletseas
I sink as I sail magnificently by Michael Nikoletseas I sink as I sail magnificently The sky below me black cribriform supine chest plates of Chalkis copper float by hugging Macedonian youths in Eurotas’ reeds I sink as I sail magnificently End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: […]