The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux follows the river as it bends along the valley floor, going the way it must. Where water goes, so goes the road, if there’s room (not in a ravine, gorge), the river on your right or left. Left is better: when you’re driving, it’s over […]
The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
Some roads rise To meet the men who have set their way. It’s the years that turn around to say goodbye. It’s the setting sun that sends it away. Where is wisdoms light In a future that never came. In bright eyes that once dared to fight It’s an empty wind that calls my name […]
The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton
The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton Mother of musings, Contemplation sage, Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock Of Teneriffe; ‘mid the tempestuous night, On which, in calmest meditation held, Thou hear’st with howling winds the beating rain And drifting hail descend; or if the skies Unclouded shine, and through the blue serene Pale […]
The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux each day mowed and mowed his lawn, his dry quarter acre, the machine slicing a wisp from each blade’s tip. Dust storms rose around the roar: 6:00 P.M., every day, spring, summer, fall. If he could mow the snow he would. […]
The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Have you e’er heard, at early morn, The feathered poet sing his song, Clear as a huntsman’s clarion horn, Yet softer, sweeter, and as strong? Have you e’er felt his magic power Soothe, as a balm, your troubled breast, Change into mirth the gloomy hour, Cradle th’ enchanted sense to rest? Have you e’er heard […]
The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
The heart that is pining for love that is vain Will outlive its sorrow and conquer its pain, Will seek where is hidden the balsam ‘gainst woe, And smile with the merry in pleasure’s glad flow. A few rashly seek to forget in red wine Th’ affection they strove with their love to entwine, But […]
The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Oh, take me again to the clime of my birth, The dearest, the fairest, to me on the earth, The clime where the roses are sweetest that bloom, And nature is bathed in the rarest perfume! Where the songs of the birds awake us at morn With a thrill of delight and pleasure new born; […]
The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune
The bird has vanished from its cage- Has left its prison house to me! It will not fill its song with rage Again-for it is free! Will it forget, can it forget, The love, the tender care, I gave, Or feel one throb of sad regret That ’tis no more my slave? Go, nameless one, […]
Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton
Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton Oft upon the twilight plain, Circled with thy shadowy train, While the dove at distance coo’d, Have I met thee, Solitude! Then was loneliness to me Best and true society, But ah! how alter’d is thy mien In this sad deserted scene! Here all thy classic pleasures cease, […]
Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
Ribbons and pearls, so tender is the age All dressed up with nowhere to go. I know your secrets to your hate and rage A little girl— one too many has tried to know. Deep behind the garden and around the bend Daddy’s hands always seem to find you there The tears of shame escapes […]
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 […]
Timothy Thomas Fortune – Timothy Thomas Fortune
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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 King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton
On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton Where Venta’s Norman castle still uprears Its rafter’d hall, that o’er the grassy foss, And scatter’d flinty fragments clad in moss, On yonder steep in naked state appears; High hung remains, the pride of war-like years, Old Arthur’s board: on the capacious round Some British […]
Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton
Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton On this my pensive pillow, gentle Sleep! Descend, in all thy downy plumage drest: Wipe with thy wing these eyes that wake to weep, And place thy crown of poppies on my breast. O steep my senses in oblivion’s balm, And sooth my throbbing pulse with lenient hand; This […]
My Precious Girl by Tiffany Ann Monroe
So tiny,so small, and taken from us all Why God, have you forsaken me, You took my daughter before she could see Her first crawl, her 1st walk, her first word. I’m asking you god, have you even heard Are all my prayers and words in vain? Can you somehow take away this pain? I […]
My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
I never make-believe that there can be this day, This is the day of love which could find its way. Every day I lookout the sunrise and the sunset, I enjoy the beauty of flowers bloom around me. I can float on the breeze and fly on the wind, I can travel the cosmos, watch […]
Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
I awake to hear her voices, her smells bring me alive, and Mother Earth is all around me wanting for me to step outside. I see her creatures playing, the birds singing a tune, and the grasses are swaying to her sweet breaths perfume. Beauty is all around me, life in full bloom, waiting for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Let mad ambition strive to gain The cherished wish that yields but pain; Let others seek for wealth alone, And with its cares their lives atone; But let me live my fleeting hour The slave of Love’s divinest power. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic […]
Love of the heart by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems Peace is all just what we need! Love is the greatest friend we plead No one has ever known who loves you nor hates you. We look outward with the appearance but human are desperate inward. Human heart determines […]
Just A Dance by Tiffany M
Baby hear me out Please Don’t just let us sink I have no planned route I just care about what you think Without a doubt There’s times I just don’t know what to say But since the day I met you I adore you more each and every day And I hope you did too […]
Thomas Lux – Thomas Lux
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In Token Of The Love You Gave by Timothy Thomas Fortune
In token of the love you gave, The faith, the trust, reposed in me, When our young hearts were gay and free, I plant this flower upon thy grave! The world is far too poor to give A value like it took away! I nevermore a joyous day, Since you are gone, shall know or […]
I shall not be a shame by Torm Gardson
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems I have started to sow Since when I no -nothing Until now that I know How to plant bold; seed of good deeds I have lived on the land Where afflictions taste like sweet I live in the land […]
I Make My bed Of Roses by Timothy Thomas Fortune
I make my bed of roses sweet! I scorn the frowns of envious Fate! I will my careless song repeat While ’round may surge contending hate! For life is what we make it still, And I am master of my will. Then let me quaff life’s nectar wine And live, a lord, the passing hour; […]
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 […]
Gentle Heart, Indulge Thy Dreaming by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Gentle heart, indulge thy dreaming! Wake not from thy peaceful mood! The great world around thee streaming Holds no joy one-half so good! Soon thy dreams must have an ending! Thou wilt wake some early morn And, o’er shattered idols bending, Find thy peace from thee is torn! ————— The End And that’s the End […]
Death of the Legend by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems I wake and heard the death of the legend Believing is so hard I shook my head in dismay my mind turns sad Let my pen sing the song of the lose of a great hero. Let it bow […]
A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux
A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux Your baby grows a tooth, then two, and four, and five, then she wants some meat directly from the bone. It’s all over: she’ll learn some words, she’ll fall in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet talker on his way to jail. And you, your wife, get old, flyblown, […]
A Library Of Skulls by Thomas Lux
A Library Of Skulls by Thomas Lux Shelves and stacks and shelves of skulls, a Dewey Decimal number inked on each unfurrowed forehead. Here’s a skull who, before he lost his fleshy parts and lower bones, once walked beside a river (we’re in the poetry section now) his head full of love and loneliness; and […]
A Lady Aurum by Thriveni Mysore
Facing the idolum of near successive picture perfection I sat looking at her in all earthly wide wonder All that I had heard of her became much clear I kept thanking the happy chance for such lucky reflection. Gentle grace, lucid charm, distinct person full of pristine vision Setting forth moral marks by austerity, halting […]
A Kiss by Thomas Lux
A Kiss by Thomas Lux One wave falling forward meets another wave falling forward. Well-water, hand-hauled, mineral, cool, could be a kiss, or pastures fiery green after rain, before the grazers. The kiss — like a shoal of fish whipped one way, another way, like the fever dreams of a million monkeys — the kiss […]
“While with fond rapture and amaze” by Tobias Smollett
While with fond rapture and amaze On thy transcendent charms I gaze, My cautious soul essays in vain Her peace and freedom to maintain: Yet let that blooming form divine, Where grace and harmony combine. Those eyes, like genial orbs that move, Dispensing gladness, joy, and love, In all their pomp assail my view, Intent […]
Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
When Sappho struck the quivering wire, The throbbing breast was all on fire: And when she raised the vocal lay, The captive soul was charm’d away! But had the nymph possessed with these Thy softer, chaster power to please; Thy beauteous air of sprightly youth, Thy native smiles of artless truth; The worm of Grief […]
Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
When Sappho struck the quivering wire, The throbbing breast was all on fire: And when she raised the vocal lay, The captive soul was charm’d away! But had the nymph possessed with these Thy softer, chaster power to please; Thy beauteous air of sprightly youth, Thy native smiles of artless truth; The worm of Grief […]