I Shout Love by Milton Acorn

I Shout Love by Milton Acorn I shout love in a blizzard’s scarf of curling cold, for my heart’s a furred sharp-toothed thing that rushes out whimpering when pain cries the sign writ on it. I shout love into your pain when skies crack and fall like slivers of mirrors, and rounded fingers, blued as […]

I know our friendship wil never end by Miraj Patel

I remember the day we met and we became friends, ya maybe from then, came so close but i never knew from when.. From our childhood we always have been together, we have memories which no one else could ever gather.. I never know will this tym come to us ever, but this memories will […]

I Just Wanna Make You Mine Girl by Miraj Patel

Saw you from the distance, the way you blinked your eyes, I can’t stop myself from coming closer, and to have you by ma side, Now standing to your right watching you smile girl, Looking at the world’s best creation, now i can’t wait to call you mine girl… I can wait no more to […]

I Just Wanna Be Your Number One by Miraj Patel

Never saw a girl someone as beautiful as you, Baby you stole ma heart, and now it’s all own you, I really found one in a billion you, Oh baby, there can never be another you, Nothing can make me feel the way everytime i’m besides you, Baby there can never be another you… I […]

I Have A Friend I Can Proudly Say by Miraj Patel

I have a friend, I can proudly say, Who’s just amazing her own way… Words are less to describe you the best, You are like an angel, when you be around i care for nothing rest… I always wondered how this sweetest thing came 2 me, Nothing in this world can better could be… May […]

I Just Wanna Be Your Valentine by Miraj Patel

I just wanna be your valentine, just wanna be your valentine,  Come with where just you and i,  And its the feeling now i just can’t hide…  Girl you the only one which not others could,  You the only one, i just wanna be your valentine….  Till the day drops down i will be your […]

I Can Feel The Same by Miraj Patel

Baby never hide anything from me, you know i can feel your pain,  Maybe little far from you, but still i can feel the same…  Baby never hide your worries from me, i can feel the absence of your smile, Just tell me if you need me, atleast i can be the reason to make […]

Househunting by Mike Yuan

since i eloped with my little dream from a straw-roofed farmhouse reed fenced in a chinese village i have traveled far and wide moving from city to city sheltering my yellowish soul in an asphyxiating basement or a dramatically drab apartment or a democratic duplex always in a rented room until i am now privileged […]

Hiking by Mike Yuan

between two tall skeletons of birches i walk right into the heart of mid-autumn with the city gate as my starting point but without any predetermined destination along a less frequently trodden trail i keep traveling behind my own soul each time I climb onto a little ridge i see another higher up just ahead […]

Growth: for Allen Qing Yuan by Mike Yuan

soon after his fifth birthday my little allen solemnly promised to purchase someday a huge house for mom a big benz for dad a mighty motorcycle for bro and a big pail of paint for grandpa two birthday cakes before he often immitated playing “wild wild west” with a broken broom as his electric guitar […]

Global Warning by Mike Yuan

it is not so much carbon doxide from metal pipes as more and more fret, frenzy and friction that burst out into the sky making the whole world dangerously warmer (sept.19, 2004) End of the poem 15 random poems   Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave  Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com […]

Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory

Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory Four Corners There is a large man with a sled, splintered and wooden beneath its red paint’s fading, selling roses to the blind. Women passing in babushkas carry babka, paper bags, and milk. There is the rust of pennies mixing with the scent of lemon candles, flames which must […]

Forever Ya by Miraj Patel

You are my heart, you are my life, Having you to my side you make me feel alive… Sometime in my life, when the day seems darker, You come to me and save my heart from getting colder… Forever i be and do like i told ya, Now and ever be the same coz gul […]

Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas

Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas Far pitched tents I met you again as on the first time stench of blood and war cries in far pitched tents End of the poem 15 random poems   Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave  Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – […]

Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory

Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory Entering the Body after Gunter von Hagen’s Body Worlds All I could think of at first was cooking. Of that skinned rabbit in my freezer, fur torn, gaze jammed between a package of phyllo and a carton of ice cream. Of all that succulent meat dripping from its […]

Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje

Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje Catch, my Uncle Jack said and oh I caught this huge apple red as Mrs Kelly’s bum. It’s red as Mrs Kelly’s bum, I said and Daddy roared and swung me on his stomach with a heave. Then I hid the apple in my room till it shrunk like a face […]

East Idioms (1): A Fable by Mike Yuan

once there stood still a tremendous oak tree trying to enjoy dreaming her own dream in her humble but hilarious way suddenly a wild west wind starting to blow her back bent like a madly mating moose never letting his sexual desire rest unable to stand straight up she shrugs off her broken branches End […]

Don’t Hang Up The Phone by Miraj Patel

I miss those day when you called me late at night, I know you sleepy but you say its alright, We talk from night to morn, Still don’t wish to hang up the phone, You say baby i wanna talk some more, Even if nothing else to say, Just wanna stay awake, Don’t wanna take […]

Christmas Dance of the Hours by Michael T. Bee

Dust of forgotten dreams in my eyes – I rise with coughs and creaksand cold morning on my legs. The dark house rumbles with my father bear tread to the kitchenand I loose a hundred screams of a Colombian morning fromtheblack-howlers, and tamarins in the grinder. I muffle their din with a dishtowel but a […]

Change of Climate by Michael S Wilson

You praise the glories of those green hills, Oaks and daisies swaying in the breezes; Farmhouses and homesteads and stone mills, Rivers and lakes and ponds with fish leaping. You are entitled to your opinions, although they seem wrong, For I choose to enjoy more wide-open pristine vistas; Asteroids and new worlds, entire star systems […]

Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan

Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan unlike the proud Prometheus you stole from an unknown paradise the white seeds of pure peace sowing them tender and graceful with softly solid stillness in a dry and dreaming land are you blessings bountiful from high above or just muted wishes deep in our hearts? (aug. 18, 2004) End […]

CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN

CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN Caesar’s Last Breath —Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) On the Ides of March, great Caesar stabbed to death by friends, expelled his final breath in exclamation, an accusation I’m forced to share by Fermi’s calculation each time I respire in joy or despair an atom of the cry my Mother gave […]

Birthday Love Song by Miraj Patel

You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, With a soul so pure and heart so clean, For me it’s just the most beautiful you, Baby there can never be another you, Words can’t describe how beautiful you are to me, You are ma one in a billion, You are ma 7 wonders, […]

Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh

Before it is time, even the night will not come although the sleepy, peeping birds are sometimes deceived by dusk’s lurking shadows. Even the day will not come before it is time, but the dew will water its path and wait patiently on leaves. . And, even if we may blow candles every year, death […]

Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje

Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight I yell ok. Finish something I’m doing, then something else, walk slowly round the corner to my son’s room. He is standing arms outstretched waiting for a bearhug. Grinning. Why do I give my emotion an animal’s name, give it that dark squeeze […]

Bang-Bang by Mikey D Wentworth

Bang bang Banging at the door In the dead of night The dark illuminates your fright As I’m pulled from your bed Dragged across the floor.   Bang bang Banging inside your head Festering wounds inflicted by structural violence But the pain illuminates your silence As you escape into ignorance Safe in the sewer with […]

Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman

Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman Goodbye America of the blue overalls and steel-toed boots, goodbye, goodbye. The headline in The Sun said it all today in type as tall as the re-election of a president: General Motors Closes Its Broening Highway Plant. Don’t you remember when they said what was good for GM […]

Awakening by mike yuan

Awakening by mike yuan as a stony statue sitting still under a tremendous tree my inner self fallen into a deep doze while i travel around all the time trying to find the right path through the thorny bushes leading to the hill top a large flock of nameless birds held in their unsinging mouths […]

At the Kitslano Beach by Mike Yuan

i spot and pick up a curious clam whose flimsy lips fairly open and her tongue keeps reaching out as if to reveal the saltiness of seawater the sad face of sand and anecdotes about certain fishes whose narration i really do not understand although my younger son assures me he can End of the […]

Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory

Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory Artery What will they find when they cut you open? Who will be there when they take back your ribs and press onward to your heart? Will they see me kneeling at the edge of your river of blood? Will there be earlier versions of you? Of us floating by […]

Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje

Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje Two birds loved in a flurry of red feathers like a burst cottonball, continuing while I drove over them. I am a good driver, nothing shocks me. End of the poem 15 random poems   Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave  Talking […]

Apologize by Miraj Patel

When i was down, lost in the world of hope, I had u to catch my rope.. When nothing was alright, i had u at ma side to the right.. When i fear, u said, don’t worry dear, when m near.. I was searching for an angel in the skys, u were here nd i […]

Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles

Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles Oh, kind power of light, you are my flower of the sun. She is the light of the sun and the flower You are my one, the Flower , which by the Peach was spun Crafty and Benevelant you hide in your lun Disheveled, but omniscent […]

A Domestic Dialogue by Mike Yuan

how can i have myself unfettered? —-who has fettered you? no one really except an unseen hand —-then you are free 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 […]

19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory

19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory The game went into overtime that night. The moon didn’t Stay to witness, having other places to be. On top Of Mount Thoradour she couldn’t wait To lose her virginity. This was before the war. Before he would leave her Pregnant with Sierra, alone, before he returned, His left arm’s […]

YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar

YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar YOU A moving panorama Of wonders Of shades and colors An infinite variation Expressing eternity Liquid pools your eyes- of cascade pure Surging and welling A language Of dance and dreams That locked me in tantalizing Ever moving, ever expressing A profound reflection Of depth Of caressing feminity Of quelling passions […]

Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin

Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin Gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right. The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful, quick at the bone and the case we had against them was airtight, both exits shoehorned shut with puddingstone, but they had a sub-sub-basement out of range. Next morning they turned […]

Woman Work by Maya Angelou

I’ve got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed The garden to weed I’ve got shirts to press The tots to dress The can to be cut I gotta clean up this […]

When You Come by Maya Angelou

When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of days too few. Baubles of stolen kisses. Trinkets of borrowed loves. Trunks of secret words, End of the poem 15 random poems   Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s […]

Welcome A.O.H. Men by Michael McGovern

Welcome men of Irish blood, With open arms we meet you In the name of Irish Nationhood And faith we hospitably greet you. We welcome you with all the love And friendship men shroud owe each other, And hope each grasp we give may prove The honest pressure of a Brother. For Ireland’s triumphs and […]