Weekend Glory by Maya Angelou
Some clichty folks don’t know the facts, posin’ and preenin’ and puttin’ on acts, stretchin’ their backs. They move into condos up over the ranks, pawn their souls to the local banks. Buying big cars they can’t afford, ridin’ around town actin’ bored. If they want to learn how to live life right they ought […]
Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy
Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy Good evening sir, may I take your hat and coat, Just leave your wallet with the bell boy, Come this way, your table is waiting, Filled with outrageous goodies of lip smacking relish, An orgasmic cheering for the stomachs chic posture, Observe the detachment of the in…tuition’s direction, […]
Travel to Infinite Places by Michael Levy
Music drifts through a thousand minds, Through doors, windows, walls. Serenades sail tranquil waters, Ebb in one ear, flow out the next, Ever onward, navigating infinity, Lovers touch, sending electric messages beyond space and time, Turquoise crystal thoughts blow freely, Across oceans, mountains, plains, Visions of extreme delights fly faster than light, Beaming sensitivity beyond […]
To A Cricket by Michael McGovern
Clamorous cricket in the wall. Thus chirping as night’s curtains fall, I often think with wonder how such bare-boned, tiny thing as thou. In heated nooks within the mill Can rasp thy song all night so shrill. How oft at night I’ve sat alone And heard thy sharppeculiar tone, If as a tone I may […]
The Woods At Night by May Swenson
The Woods At Night by May Swenson The binocular owl, fastened to a limb like a lantern all night long, sees where all the other birds sleep: towhee under leaves, titmouse deep in a twighouse, sapsucker gripped to a knothole lip, redwing in the reeds, swallow in the willow, flicker in the oak – but […]
The Waradgery Tribe by Mary Gilmore
The Waradgery Tribe by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today by Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, […]
The Passing of Stumpy Shore by Mervyn John Webster
The Passing of Stumpy Shore by Mervyn John Webster The Constable had found the man ’round five on Friday morn; Apparently while on his shift from midnight through ’till dawn. Two youths, with blood stains on their clothes, detained drunk in the park, Disclosed they’d rolled some homeless bloke, sometime just after dark. Now Sergeant […]
The Mothering Blackness by Maya Angelou
She came home running back to the mothering blackness deep in the smothering blackness white tears icicle gold plains of her face She came home running She came down creeping here to the black arms waiting now to the warm heart waiting rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face She came down creeping […]
The Meaning of Music by Mercedes Madrigal
In the dictionary, music is defined as, “vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.” But there’s definitely more to it than that, isn’t there? Music is so many different things. It’s emotion, compassion. It’s a way of life. Imagine waking up one day, and music didn’t exist. How would we […]
The Lesson by Maya Angelou
I keep on dying again. Veins collapse, opening like the Small fists of sleeping Children. Memory of old tombs, Rotting flesh and worms do Not convince me against The challenge. The years And cold defeat live deep in Lines along my face. They dull my eyes, yet I keep on dying, Because I love to […]
The January Birds by Maurice Riordan
The January Birds by Maurice Riordan The birds in Nunhead Cemetery begin Before I’ve flicked a switch, turned on the gas. There must be some advantage to the light I tell myself, viewing my slackened chin Mirrored in the rain-dark window glass, While from the graveyard’s trees, the birds begin. An image from a dream […]
The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin
The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin Up attic, Lucas Harrison, God rest his frugal bones, once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. The wood was new. The pitch ran down to blunt the year: 1811, the score: 10, he carved into the center rafter to represent his loves, beatings, […]
The Gravy Train by Michael Levy
Take a ride on the Gravy Train, clickerty-clack on the track to a gain, wealth and fortunes to a destination with no name, no signals to stop, forgetting the station from whence we came. The journey of a lifetime, seeing love in money, hands in the pots, grabbing all the honey, no time to taste […]
The Fishermen, The Gulls & The Bible People by Michael Estabrook
The Fishermen, The Gulls & The Bible People by Michael Estabrook funny morning on the beach about 9 AM I’m alone but then these 2 guys with beards & long hair & cigarettes dangling from their mouths, these 2 fisherman, appear on the shore in a motor boat toss in an anchor drag 4 really […]
The First Thrush by Mary Gilmore
The First Thrush by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
The Fairies Break Their Dances by A. E. Housman
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn, And up from India glances The silver sail of dawn. The candles burn their sockets, The blinds let through the day, The young man feels his pockets And wonders what’s to pay. End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external […]
The Burning Crusade by Memphis Knight
Vast asleep in this dying dream In the brutal war of flame to man a distant echo of a childs scream Brought the epilogue of deaths plan The blazing heat and dancing flame destroyed invunerable walls to last and our hearts became sulpher For judging eachother with the past Their tongues a fire scourge the […]
The Rolling Mills by Michael McGovern
I love to see the rays of light That from the furnace flow, Like Phantoms in the arms of night Quarrelling as they go Parading o’erthevalley when The slumbering town is still Oh, then I think there’s beauty is The shadows from the mill Copyright ©: 1933, The Youngstown Vindicator End of the poem 15 […]
Sweethearts by Mary Gilmore
Sweethearts by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
Stars and Jasmine by Maurice Riordan
Stars and Jasmine by Maurice Riordan Each of them has been a god many times: cat, hedgehog and – our summer interloper – the tortoise. A perfect triangle, they can neither eat nor marry one another. And tonight they are gods under the jasmine under the stars. Already the hedgehog has scoffed the cat’s supper […]
St Patrick’s Day by Michael McGovern
Again arrives that holy day, As Earth its yearly circuits makes; That much revered St Patrick’s Day That day of days which e’er awakes Within each heart of Irish race. A Christian thought- a loving thrill: When kindled memories kindly trace Some verdant vale; some shamrocked hill, From which the thinker had to roam Upon […]
Singapore by Mary Gilmore
Singapore by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
Rile Me Up! by Michael D Wentworth
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems I’m not sure what makes me angrier: The fact that wars are still being fought Provoked by men with ulterior motives and security details Mass murderers who speak of peace with blood on their hands Inciting their flock with […]
Remembrance by Maya Angelou
Your hands easy weight, teasing the bees hived in my hair, your smile at the slope of my cheek. On the occasion, you press above me, glowing, spouting readiness, mystery rapes my reason When you have withdrawn your self and the magic, when only the smell of your love lingers between my breasts, then, only […]
Raindrops by Michael Mulcahy
raindrops patter upon my window drizzling thoughts of you grey clouds upon a backdrop of an uneasy sky a torrential downpour of questioning flooded crevices of weeping memories there is a fatidic sense of life’s placement umbrellas can deflect the drops but we all get drenched in the end each puddle hides and drowns a […]
Purgatory by Maxine Kumin
Purgatory by Maxine Kumin And suppose the darlings get to Mantua, suppose they cheat the crypt, what next? Begin with him, unshaven. Though not, I grant you, a displeasing cockerel, there’s egg yolk on his chin. His seedy robe’s aflap, he’s got the rheum. Poor dear, the cooking lard has smoked her eye. Another Montague […]
Progress by Michael McGovern
You have travelled close beside the human race From where it first evolved and led it on; E’er moving with increasing bolder pace From Darkness up to where your beacon shone. Tho’ ignorance and superstition oft Have blocked your way, you ne’er vouchsafed to veer From off your course, but held your torch aloft- The […]
Pejar Creek by Mary Gilmore
Pejar Creek by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
Passing Time by Maya Angelou
Your skin like dawn Mine like musk One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a sure beginning. 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 […]
O Singer in Brown by Mary Gilmore
O Singer in Brown by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest by Mary Gilmore
No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
New York’s Bad Dream by Matthew Abuelo
New York’s Bad Dream by Matthew Abuelo New York used to be a squatters town and a misfits town and a union town. This is where you could find a cheap room at the Chelsea or the Dexter House with a bathroom down the hall. Or at the Commander. Many SROs vanished into the remains […]
New York’s Last Gleanings by Matthew Abuelo
New York’s Last Gleanings by Matthew Abuelo New York used to be a squatters town and a misfits town and a union town. This is where you could find a cheap room at the Chelsea or the Dexter House with a bathroom down the hall. Or at the Commander. Many SROs vanished into the remains […]
Nationality by Mary Gilmore
Nationality by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. 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 […]
Momma Welfare Roll by Maya Angelou
Her arms semaphore fat triangles, Pudgy HANDS bunched on layered hips Where bones idle under years of fatback And lima beans. Her jowls shiver in accusation Of crimes cliched by Repetition. Her children, strangers To childhood’s TOYS, play Best the games of darkened doorways, Rooftop tag, and know the slick feel of Other people’s property. […]
Modest Sounds by Michael Brandon Odom
Modest sounds my mind speaks in 3’s What a shy comfort multi-colored fall leaves In and out w/ confusing thoughts We were never something including faults Down to drown your milky white skin Blood to tears to fears we all sin Snap of a bone and drying eyes For no more will anyone feel your […]
mine danse macabre doppelganger by matthew scott harris
housed within mine impenetrable hermetically sealed invisible bubble draped with blackened Hades hued habiliment therein dwelt sinister saboteur mastermind marauder of the Hubble who demanded sacrifice to traverse river styx with unadulterated gelt which known phantasmagorical double whose piercing fiery ocular presence unseen but felt thine true self amidst the aftermath from Armageddon rubble astride […]
Million Man March Poem by Maya Angelou
The night has been long, The wound has been deep, The pit has been dark, And the walls have been steep. Under a dead blue sky on a distant beach, I was dragged by my braids just beyond your reach. Your hands were tied, your mouth was bound, You couldn’t even call out my name. […]
Merging, Emerging by Shahida Latif
Merging, Emerging by Shahida Latif The forsaken are recollected, The forgotten are remembered, But one who resides in the deep, Recesses of the temple of the heart, Is adored, worshiped in silences, In solitude to establish communion, To dissolve, absorb into one entity, As a dropp merges, mixes into an ocean, To become an ingredient […]