The Inheritance by Thomas J Camp
If you could own a book One you always wanted To consume or cherish, I wonder which that might be. I have seen my Robert Frost with a different type of Frosting. And yes, My Hemingway, I have seen it too. The title barely legible thru the grey misty mildew, A malicious mix of moldy […]
The Holy Mountain of Hope by Thomas Ziemer
There’s a great white light that dawns in the distance Burning bright amidst the dark skies, and the endless Confines of solitude, and hopeless laws of our romantic universal dreams The symphony of a fading delight Somewhere out there, a brilliant beam of hope Gleams from the soft and silent dreams of the golden lost […]
The Curse Upon Edward by Thomas Gray
The Curse Upon Edward by Thomas Gray WEAVE the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward’s race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, thro’ Berkley’s roofs that ring, Shrieks of […]
The Bard by Thomas Gray
The Bard by Thomas Gray Pindaric Ode “Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait! Tho’ fanned by Conquest’s crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk’s twisted mail, Nor e’en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria’s curse, from Cambria’s […]
Sonnet On The Death Of Mr Richard West by Thomas Gray
Sonnet On The Death Of Mr Richard West by Thomas Gray In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd’ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different object do these eyes require: […]
Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux More like a vault — you pull the handle out and on the shelves: not a lot, and what there is (a boiled potato in a bag, a chicken carcass under foil) looking dispirited, drained, mugged. This is not a place to go in hope or hunger. But, just to […]
Red Planet Haiku by Thomas J Camp
Hostile Red planet What secrets do you conceal? Can we learn from you? Beautiful red sphere We know there are no Martians Secrets await still. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux Early germ warfare. The dead hurled this way look like wheels in the sky. Look: there goes Larry the Shoemaker, barefoot, over the wall, and Mary Sausage Stuffer, see how she flies, and the Hatter twins, both at once, soar over the parapet, little […]
On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray
On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray ‘Twas on a lofty vase’s side, Where China’s gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow, Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima, reclined, Gazed on the lake below. Her conscious tail her joy declared; The […]
Ode On The Spring by Thomas Gray
Ode On The Spring by Thomas Gray Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, Fair Venus’ train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year! The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo’s note, The untaught harmony of spring: While, whisp’ring pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs thro’ the clear blue sky Their […]
Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray Now the golden Morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, With vermeil cheek and whisper soft She wooes the tardy Spring: Till April starts, and calls around The sleeping fragrance from the ground, And lightly o’er the living scene Scatters his freshest, tenderest green. New-born flocks, […]
Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray
Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry’s holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor’s heights th’ expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, […]
My Country Place by Thomas J Camp
Light Gray smoke hangs as a mist in the cold still air. The sweet smell of hickory can be found there. A harem of hens follows closely and pecks thru the brush A cackle or cluck, a scratch at the ground Is the only noise above the sound of a Thrush. The rooster moves carefully […]
Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base (a huge red slug with a hole where its heart should be) or chose this print of a butterscotch sunset, must have been abused in art class as children, forced to fingerpaint with a nose, or a tongue. To put […]
Monsters under the bed by Thomas J Camp
There are always monsters under the bed. Sometimes they are simply your wild imagination, But don’t fall asleep with a sense of dread. You can simply will them away as utter nonsense. Sleep with one eye open if you must. For some of them, you will need some preparation. Both spiritually and mentally. These are […]
Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux As you descend, slowly, falling faster past you this snow, ghostly, some flakes bio- luminescent (you plunge, and this lit snow doesn’t land at your feet but keeps falling below you): single-cell-plant chains, shreds of zooplankton’s mucus food traps, fish fecal pellets, radioactive fallouts, sand grains, […]
Lucky by Thomas Lux
Lucky by Thomas Lux One sweet pound of filet mignon sizzles on the roadside. Let’s say a hundred yards below the buzzard. The buzzard sees no cars or other buzzards between the mountain range due north and the horizon to the south and across the desert west and east no other creature’s nose leads him […]
Thomas Gray – Thomas Gray
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Hymn To Adversity by Thomas Gray
Hymn To Adversity by Thomas Gray Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort’ring hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When […]
Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux Senator, statesman, speaker of the House, exceptional dancer, slim, graceful, ugly. Proclaimed, before most, slavery an evil, broker of elections (burned Jackson for Adams), took a pistol ball in the thigh in a duel, delayed, by forty years, with his compromises, the Civil War, gambler (“I have always paid […]
He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux
He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux furnished rooms, flats, a hayloft, a tent, motels, under a table, under an overturned rowboat, in a villa (briefly) but not, as yet, a yurt. In these places he has slept, eaten, put his forehead to the window glass, looking out. He’s in a stilt-house now, […]
Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux They are, the surfaces, gorgeous: a master pastry chef at work here, the dips and whorls, the wrist-twist squeezes of cream from the tube to the tart, sweet bleak sugarwork, needlework toward the perfect lace doily where sit the bone-china teacups, a little maze of meaning maybe in their arrangement […]
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn […]
Drummer Boy by Thomas J Camp
His brave young heart is racing.!.. The Dragoons they are facing.!.. His only weapon sticks for a drum.!.. The patterned melody continues.!.. He loans his valor to his chums.!.. Enemy cannon are belching black.!.. The blunderbuss hot flaring back.!.. Sanity lost as muzzles roar.!.. The drum’s sound echoes across forest floor.!.. The rhythm as steady […]
Becalmed and Bewildered by Thomas J Camp
We do not know where we go. We do not know what we will need. We do not know when we will arrive, Or what state we may arrive in, once we do. We are headed somewhere, Both You and I. Even now, While adrift in the calm. Maddeningly, we strive, But alas to no […]
Autumn Leaves by Thomas J Camp
Why, in autumn, do leaves await the morning time? Is there a requirement that the Rooster crow to announce the event? Or does the bustle on the forest floor, Where the deer and rabbit find their way, Need to prepare somehow. Just like we may do, for a holiday? Trotting softly amongst the trees, The […]
You by Thonda Sri Indrani
Those initial unforgettable times, Happiness had the taste of the sweetest limes. Enthusiasm of knowing and being with each other sprung in every blood cell And I didn’t know that the memories which we were making unknowingly would come out so well. Now that our relationship has become a little old, And even though i […]
You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
You will go hence, sweetheart, and leave me, And may forget We ever met- And that it is, alas! will grieve me! And, yet, the past- How could it last! And could I know you would deceive me! The fleeting hours we spent together- The rambles far ‘Neath sun and star In peaceful calm and […]
Written at Stonehenge by Thomas Warton
Written at Stonehenge by Thomas Warton Thou noblest monument of Albion’s isle! Whether by Merlin’s aid, from Scythia’s shore, To Amber’s fatal plain Pendragon bore, Huge frame of giant-hands, the mighty pile T’ entomb his Britons slain by Hengist’s guile: Or Druid priests, sprinkled with human gore, Taught ‘mid thy massy maze their mystic lore: […]
Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
There is rapture in the thought, From thy words of constance caught, That the world contains no prize Like the peace thy love supplies. And I ponder o’er and o’er Words of love forevermore, As they come in tenderest tone From thy heart-which is my own. ————— The End And that’s the End of the […]
Why? by Tiffany Ann Monroe
Only four months old And she’s six feet under What’s God trying to prove I wonder? It’s just not fair, for she was so small She was so small she couldn’t even crawl Too young to understand how good life can be Dear God, could you not have let her see? In your own word […]
While Summer Suns O’er the Gay Prospect Play’d by Thomas Warton
While Summer Suns O’er the Gay Prospect Play’d by Thomas Warton While summer suns o’er the gay prospect play’d, Through Surrey’s verdant scenes, where Epsom spread ‘Mid intermingling elms her flowery meads, And Hascombe’s hill, in towering groves array’d, Rear’d its romantic steep, with mind serene, I journey’d blithe. Full pensive I return’d; For now […]
What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
There was love, and there was beauty, In the face upturned to me; And her hair was long and golden, Soft to touch and good to see; Her blue eyes were full of laughter As they burned into my own, Glowing like a priceless diamond- Fascinating as that stone. What is life but love, devotion!- […]
We are Africa by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems We are Africa. Bond in the love of unity With the spirit of oneness among each other. We are Africa With a whitening pure souls though we are blacks I say we are blacks But our soul and mind […]
Virgule by Thomas Lux
Virgule by Thomas Lux What I love about this little leaning mark is how it divides without divisiveness. The left or bottom side prying that choice up or out, the right or top side pressing down upon its choice: either/or, his/her. Sometimes called a slash (too harsh), a slant (a little dizzy, but the Dickinson […]
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the bright transparent mass, With Titian’s pencil, o’er the speaking glass! Nor steal, by strokes of art with truth combin’d, The fond […]
Vagueness Petrified by Thonda Sri Indrani
The way you make me miss you, lead to the growth of emptiness even more effective than a flu. The urge to speak with you crossed its limits I guess. But why does the gap which created wounds had the pungent of sweetness ? Like lightening it struck me that its only because of the […]
Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux
Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux gnawing through a shinbone, a high howl inside of which a bloody, slashed-by-growls note is heard, unlike that sound, and instead, its opposite: a barely sounded sound (put your nuclear ears on for it, your giant hearing horn, its cornucopia mouth wide) — […]
Town Planning Agencies by Tilottama Chatterjee
Trail of empty cans dragging revelry over tarholes that stretches big every year after the rains. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate repository of world poetry. Poetry Monster — the multilingual library of poetic works. Here you’ll find […]
Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
Torn Shades by Thomas Lux How, in the first place, did they get torn-pulled down hard too many times: to hide a blow, or sex, or a man in stained pajamas? The tear blade-shaped, serrated, in tatters. And once, in a house flatside to a gas station, as snow fell at a speed and angle […]