Time To Transplant by Nijole Miliauskaite
this spring I must transplant, it’s about time my aloe, old, gnarled aloe vera, treasured beyond words by those who know its healing qualities hidden deep within what a tangle of roots, tiny ones, thick ones so tight that there is no way I can remove it, no matter what I do, I grab a […]
They Tell Of The Warsaw Uprising by Nijole Miliauskaite
– I was nineteen with flamethrowers (it was a new weapon then) from house to house I slipped on the stairs, hurt myself – such a sticky mass, jelly, something spilled, an open door into the room, where the parents slept, and here a newborn – did you understand then that you weren’t fighting the […]
The Witching Hour by Norma Martiri
The Witching Hour by Norma Martiri Inside the deepest, darkest night, An eerie presence unexplained. Abstruse dreams jolted with a fright, My booming heart alert and strained. A feeble light; my sole defence, While choked screams fade in cold silence. Malevolence seeks to devour, Disquieted souls in this dark hour. (Rispetto) Copyright ©: 2011 Norma […]
The Walk by Noel Angelo Hurley
I enjoyed our walk today over the hills Where splendid colours danced on leaves The smell of wet trees and daffodils The confident kiss of Summer’s breeze We sat for a while, drank cold tea and laughed Remember, the radio played a song by Cliff “Poor man’s Elvis” you said, acting daft But these miss […]
The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
I’m the queerest young fellow that ever was heard. My mother’s a Jew; my father’s a Bird With Joseph the Joiner I cannot agree So ‘Here’s to Disciples and Calvary.’ If anyone thinks that I amn’t divine, He gets no free drinks when I’m making the wine But have to drink water and wish it […]
The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) by Olivia Lewis
The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) The moonlight off the pond shimmered Ice-cold but jagged And above something rushing A dark dusk wraith And a dark branch cuts in two the moon This place is all wrong It is without space What is that It is […]
The Last Whisper by Nizar Sartawi
Farewell lest the cells of feelings die as this moon will go away leaving me for the beasts of the dark and I’ve woven for him from the hymns of my heart love scarves that the wind flung on the roads tattered and bleeding ***** Farewell for my path is long… long Its end is […]
The Fire by Nin Andrews
A woman lights herself on fire again and again. Each time she thinks she can control the fire, or at least delay the progress of its flames. The little flames that singe the surface of her tiny blonde hairs and race up her arms and legs. When the heat rises, she takes a sip of […]
The Blacksmith by Olga Dytyniak
Iron, that malleable thing can be forged in fashion first seen in smithy’s mind. He fires and draws punches and bends smites and cuts and fires again each stay in the coals increases the iron’s tenderness redsorangesyellowswhites glow like comets, traverse the darkness Sparks sap resistance. Hammer clangs, first to iron, then to steel it’s […]
The Battle of an National Icon by Norma Martiri
The Battle of an National Icon by Norma Martiri Towering gum trees stand majestic Eucalyptus, nature’s domestic. Adorable with real distinction Staring down the barrel of extinction. Habitats devoured by hungry machines Apathetic world needs other means. Frightened koalas cling to felled trees Greedy developers do as they please. Urban sprawl, a disease to nature […]
The Visit by Nijole Miliauskaite
endless corridors the convent’s interior garden worn stairs doors, white wards numbing cold fetters the feet, the hands persistently hidden eyes full of fear with my last ounce of strength I recognize the walk, the movement of the arm beneath the trees on the grass people are eating it is difficult to imagine how much […]
That Summer by Nijole Miliauskaite
she wore light long wide dresses the wind carried her down streets and through parks easily, as if through a dream with blossoming lindens the thin soft cloth did not hide her breasts and in the sun you could see her supple young body it was so hot we rested in wicker chairs in the […]
Temporary City by Nijole Miliauskaite
walking in the evening along the banks of the creek, as the sky is lighted by the glow from the hothouses, farther on the dump, the street, the pond, the hospital, farther still garages and the dried tops of pine trees here in the spring a nurse was raped as she walked to work one […]
Synesthesia by Orla McGreevy
Synesthesia by Orla McGreevy This morning when I woke I smelt yellow. It was the rough amber that tickled my nostril hair but it faded to a perfumed jasmine after several blinks. I think I heard the tang of mustard with a lemon singing in the background, and it was hard to tell exactly which […]
Summer Enclosed In A Semi-Dark Cup by Nijole Miliauskaite
summer – enclosed in a semi-dark cup locked with nine locks scribbled on graph paper squares in a quick hand, chicken scratch, you’d call it from the first to the last page, cheeks flushed I read your book, studied Latin names what grows, blossoms, bears fruit gives me such pleasure that I’d like together with […]
Sound and Spirit by Oladele Hussein
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems Listen to the spirit of the sound. Hear the spirit calling. It echoes from the land beyond I can hear it coming. I can hear the sound of their feet. Far far away I can it coming. The peoples […]
Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy by Oliver St. John Gogarty
The first was Medical Dick The second was Medical Davy The first had a Bloody Big Prick The second had Buckets of Gravy To show– to show– to show what medicals are. Then out spoke Medical Dick To his comrade Medical Davy ‘I’d swap my Bloody Big Prick For you with your buckets of Gravy’ […]
Sleeping for Kafka by Nin Andrews
I heard on the radio this morning that prayers can heal. Experiments demonstrate that cancer patients who are prayed for, even by an anonymous person, have a better prognosis than those who receive no prayers. A person can purchase prayers from Grace Church in Kansas by dialing 1-800-prayers. Via and Mastercard are accepted. I read […]
Sitting Beside The Very Street by Nijole Miliauskaite
sitting beside the very street on a dilapidated bench, paint peeling people stroll past, children scurry an infant left in a carriage outside a shop wails wearing a small blue beret, the kind tractor drivers wear a thick raincoat from who knows how long ago, high rubber boots he sits, eating ice cream with wafers […]
Shall I like An Eternal World by Nithin Purple
Shall I like a world eternal?To think what love can be bright;Serene skies and shiny blue moon light;A ribbon of peace what stars can bring, Divine.However, to think a world of truth is more strove and stress.To god who has to will, I ask,why this world so grief;my sisters are forced;No trust bore its seed to grow,Pain, […]
Sea World by Nin Andrews
At last I understand my problem. And after all these years. I have been meditating incorrectly. I have been chanting Om to calm the vast ocean of my mind. Only men who wish to leave the world of lust and lawn mowers forever can say Om in peace. Om, I only just discovered, lacks the […]
For Roman Polanski by Nijole Miliauskaite
o Pan’s flute! you call to me in the middle of the nineteenth century I am so happy familiar, comfortable things: a straw hat on a round table, a white dress on a chair, the mirror you gave me on the dresser, its frame engraved and a bouquet of flowers the wind stirs the curtains, […]
Red Roses by Nithin Purple
Do they bleed my red roses? sooner they may part-off from my heart. A Dusky bee as i spare this time, Lonely across this silence’s prophecy. O’ here with charmless petals, Once seen as ribbon ed red smiles; But spirited charm wilt shrinking, Seems very mute sorrow they are; But perpetual pleasure never hide from […]
Rainy Day by Nikhil Jain
On one morning, As it was raining, While the drops and road were chattering, But I was only wandering, Walking on the foot, Since Sadness was only the root, But the blessings falling from heaven, Make me feel so even, So many puddles on the road, Some so narrow and some so broad, The path […]
“Flight to the Moon” by Nina Gabriel
“Flight to the Moon” by Nina Gabriel Every night I spread my wings and take my flight to the Moon, Music of the spheres keeps me company, The bright stars guide my way, And when I come back in the morning, Beautiful rays of the Sun greet me here on Earth, My flights have not […]
First Look at Mom by Nikhil Jain
First Look at Mom by Nikhil Jain Email Share First Look at mom With my eyes winking, Looking at her, Kept on thinking, This golden lady Took me to earth, Cared for a fragile teddy And gave me birth, Played with me As I was a little one, Which made me dream And create fun, […]
The Poet’s Grave by Nijole Miliauskaite
not one star – a calm, windless evening shriveled frozen earth, freezing curly chrysanthemum heads – only from afar my beloved hill glistens as if all the stars had come down to earth beside the forgotten poet’s grave but I am not alone here: a few half-burned candles and a hawthorn branch full of red […]
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When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly by Oliver Goldsmith
When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly by Oliver Goldsmith When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, […]
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, where every sport could please, How often have I loitered […]
Picture by Nijole Miliauskaite
the fragment of dream in my heart is a shard of red glass through which we could watch the clouds a tall transparent tree a ladder leaned against a fence a gentle and solemn evening sky the house is dark dark your window is dark a red ball in the faded grass a crumbling wall […]
Palms and Hearts by Olawuyi Mutiu
BBC Blows blasted cases By egotists – termed leaders; Censoring for the fools… Date: the only honey that plant grooms in tick desert with no spoiling date. Word Used to create the orb; And things within and without; And for steering beings… My Reading Room: Paints my page with reed; Tames my palm to speak […]
Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
it was as though you were standing before a fence and beyond the curved slats, woven with blossoms and leaves, over there, in the orchard, a group of children played barefoot, ragged, grubby your heart shudders, half-wild: those children racing around, that orchard, longed for you discover suddenly, within yourself, how badly you’d play forgetting […]
Only in my dreams by Nina Gabriel
Only in my dreams by Nina Gabriel It used to be only in my dreams, That I would become a butterfly, And fly to the places that, I could not visit walking on this Earth, But, now it all became a reality, Since I truly transformes myself into a Butterfly, Because the time was and […]
On Fair Compassion by Nithin Purple
If Ruth,a king like guest in we well move, In fact do guide we,this green wide globe, This comrade godly he,and tell him prove A stranger he,who captures bleak and doom His arms do comfort depress and regrets If truth is true,and mercy heart each bloom Dear soul,you golden leaf from heaven’s art, And pour […]
On An Insight On Grecian Spring by Nithin Purple
Blossomed Spring from enchanted year, Now may long lipped magic weave, when Fair Persephone’s love, unwrap As thus azur’d flowers’s wide appear. O’ wake with the darling season! where green bosomed earth will pine, For butterfly wings and cuckoo’s flap, And tame their consort’s to the boon. West wind adrift from Dorian dells, And bliss […]
On An Arctic Winter by Nithin Purple
Cynthia then holiness spread in arctic dews, From lately month that it pinion’d the living world, There did swell the mild and greenish meadows, Winter anew with frozen gold of treasury wild. Moonlit beam mixed with atmospheres frigid cry, Earthy sister,wind release’d and then lightly roam; Mirth awakes in foliages and swing its glory, Enclasp […]
On A World Of Imaginary & Freedom Dwell by Nithin Purple
When it forms the soul of purest liberty, Which an aid that makes all my broad sense Vivid and meet knowledge’s growing beauty Mindful state where solemn music attunes. From Tangled psyche playful fancies rise, Worth as muse: that rolls in feeling curls, From domain world that unseen memory gaze And seeks my visions of […]
The Old Revolutionary’s Room by Nijole Miliauskaite
o the poverty of holidays, the sadness of holidays the shining windows in the emptying street, wet flags, torn and rent by the wind, rustling leaves beneath our feet she opens the door: welcome it just happens to be her birthday she leads us down a long corridor into distant perspectives into the past – […]