A Dog’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
He sleeps where he would wish, in easy call, Here in a primrose nook beside the wall. And near the gate, that he may guard us all Even in death, our faithful seneschal. I do not think the courteous Cherubim Will chide him if he waits, nor Seraphim Summon him hence till we may follow […]
Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
I know no miracle so manifest As that you wrought upon me yesterday, Filling with love my chalice of pure clay From fragrant fountains of your own dear breast. Beaten and sad, with aching eyes I pressed Close unto you, and, as my body lay, Broken with pain and grief, you murmured, “Stay, I am […]
Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
What have you more than I, who crave you so? Have I not hands and feet and thoughts to tell? All my sweet senses and fine dreams that swell Rich with contentments that the star-winds blow? Yet do I need you everywhere I go, As if you held me in some stinging spell; And nothing […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood XXXI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Beloved, I who shall be mother soon Need mothering myself this tired hour, As heavily the sweet and precious power Weighs on my heart till I am near to swoon. Console me, soothe me, Dearest, with the boon Of your firm strength, and little comforts shower Soft on the drifting doubtings that devour Patience […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood XXVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
O, not alone I weave this miracle Of glowing spirit from my body’s zone. With every moment of the life unknown You feed the glory of a growing cell. All day I think of you, and night must tell Dreams of my dreams unto your heart alone; So, seeing you, I take you, O my […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
How strangely lone unto myself I grow, Listening and looking for I know not what; Turning my head with terror cold and hot At wandering whispers of a music low! Familiar pieces of my being flow Far, far away, to thymy hill and plot, While chained to patience in this close-shut spot I sit […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
How many holy women mothered me And brought me to perfection for this hour, When from my being all the living power Of sweetest woman should at last flow free? Aeons on Aeons on a loving knee Some woman rocked me in her scented bower, Till my soul bloomed an everlasting flower Calling with fragrance […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood XL poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
A miracle of miracles is here. Take off your shoes. This place is holy ground. No man-child ours like that the shepherd found By dreaming Mary when the Star burned clear. Our God has given us a woman, dear, 390ഊWith satin skin her dimpling shoulders round. No pinkest shell with sea-blown bubbles crowned Could match […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood X poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
I walked among the flowers that bend their heads Low to the earth and back again to light, Hearing them prattle of their blue and white— Violet and jasmine in the bordered beds. They whispered them of every wing that weds 388ഊFragrance to fragrance in the dusky night; And, seeing them, I knew another sight, […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood VIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Make me the melody of meeting palms, The roundelay of little running feet. Strike me a measure to a trembling sweet Of the mouth’s laughter and the fingers’ psalms. I know of music in the ocean calms— A siren singing where the long tides meet. I know of lyrics in the leaf’s long beat, But […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood VI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
I’d have you love my body as my soul, Praise it and magnify it night and day, Knowing its sweetness blossoms out of clay With tremulous movement to its spirit goal. These arms perchance have clambered branch and bole, These feet have run from many beasts of prey; But Love has led them to a […]
Memory poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Late, late last night, when the whole world slept, Along to the garden of dreams I crept. And I pulled the bell of an old, old house Where the moon dipped down like a little white mouse. I tapped the door and I tossed my head: “Are you in, little girl? Are you in?” I […]
Love Sonnet XXXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
I cannot find a fault in you; and yet I think you are not perfect many ways. I have seen lips more meet for maiden praise And eyes less shadowed with a grey regret. But pure perfection of your love has let The tenant mirrors of my mind such rays, All other men reflect a […]
Love Sonnet XXVIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Give me a child!! Dear Heart, we have loved long, Draining each other’s sweetness to the last Wild drops of honeyed madness falling fast Upon our limbs in ecstasies of song. “More love,” we cried. “More, and still more.” And, strong And fierce, the tide of passion filled the vast Immeasured space of our desire, […]
Love Sonnet XXVI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
O my Beloved, when to-day you said: “All this must perish and we two will go Soulless and senseless, to the dust below!” I could but smile and fondle your dear head. I could but catch your fingers as they fled Over my throbbing breasts and whisper low, “Whence came this breast to lure your […]
Love Sonnet XXIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Dearest, there is no part of us, but air And earth are counterparts. Your fragrant eyes Touching my own, some essence of the skies Instil therein, and all your warm, brown hair Smells of the sun’s slow passion, fine and fair. I cannot touch your hands but I surprise Some element of summer; and the […]
Love Sonnet XXI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
If there should be a moon above the hill To-night, dip down with me into the sea Of our first passion, and, with naked glee, Breathe its ripe wonder to our beings’ fill. O, as the moonbeams on the violets spill Rivers of uncontrolled felicity, We’ll tune our bodies to a melody And set our […]
Love Sonnet XVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Beloved, lest I should remember, I Must swift forget the wonder of last night. Hot memory would but blacken out my sight And dull my senses till they seemed to die. How could I live, remembering that sigh… That breath…that sob…that all sublime delight? Eternal joy is death, I think, and might Not such sweet […]
Love Sonnet XV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Love, you have brought to me my perfect soul, More sweet than earthly things, more precious rare, Hiding its fragrance in my loosened hair And folding up my body like a scroll. O, lie with me all night, and let the roll Of Rapture’s waves wash over us, as, bare Of anything save Love, we […]
Love Sonnet XLIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
In me there is a vast and lonely place, Where none, not even you, have walked in sight. A wide, still vale of solitude and light, Where Silence echoes into ebbing space. And there I creep at times and hide my face, While in myself I fathom wrong and right, And all the timeless ages […]
Love Sonnet XLIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Love is the sepulchre of all my sin, If it be sin to let the body sink In that slow dying the sick senses drink That ne’er have felt true Love’s delight rush in. Hot Vice may sear the bloom of Beauty’s skin Polluting Virtue with a painted wink, But Love smiles lightly at such […]
Love Sonnet XLII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
My true mind makes as many loves of you As my full heart contentedly can hold. And when the one grows dull, the other cold, Yet comes another swifter in to woo. I could not rue such changing retinue Nor chastise circumstance that keeps me bold. I make you young or middle-aged or old Just […]
Love Sonnet X poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
And then came Science with her torch red-lit And cosmic marvels round her glowing head— The primal cell, the worm, the quadruped— Striving to make each to the other fit. Tongue-trumpeting her own unchallenged wit, She offered me the woof of Wisdom’s thread, And Truth and Purity that hourly tread The paths where sages in […]
Love Sonnet LX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
My mind and heart both love you utterly. And so each thought of mine is doubly yours, And all my will about your body pours Scents of my blood and fires that flow from me. Who has created me, so young, so free, Eager to-day to close convention’s doors, To-morrow to return and sweep the […]
Love Sonnet LVIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Do not surcharge our souls with that vile blame To which our bodies are subjected here; Nor heap them with the horror of dull fear Base-borrowed from a life of torpid shame. But let them linger like a lovely flame Above the clay to which they must cohere, Lighting the earthly to the heavenly sphere […]
Girl-Gladness poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
It’s holiday time on the hollyhock hills, And I wish you would come with me laddie-love, now, The butterfly-bells, from the Folly-fool rills, Will ring if you listen, and drop on your brow. So, dear come along, I’ve a kiss and a song, And I know where the fairies are forging a gong To ring […]
Fortune poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Dame Fortune’s jade with a fanciful horn Of silver ambitions she warns of the flame; With pearls for the princes and tears night and morn For poor little poets who fluttered for fame, Who smile when she sings as she dances along; “Come; woo me with courage and delicate song.” I followed her once, but […]
Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
I would not curse your England, wise as slow, Just as unjust in deed. I can believe that from her heart may flow The truest human creed. She sounded one high call of Liberty That despots heard with dread; I know not what high purpose to be free Crowns yet her starry head. Do I […]
Books poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead, Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold, And silk octavos, bound in brown and red, That tales of love and chivalry unfold. Heap me in volumes of fine vellum wrought, Creamed with the close content of silent speech; Wrap me in sapphire tapestries of thought From […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster Dearest, your mother feels (though dead) this birth— Laughs at the fire within your shining eyes— Your eyes, yet mine, wherein such glory lies Never before beheld upon the earth. She scents the fragrance of the lily-mirth Lilting this body that […]
Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
aboutlove Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster I know no miracle so manifest As that you wrought upon me yesterday, Filling with love my chalice of pure clay From fragrant fountains of your own dear breast. Beaten and sad, with aching eyes I pressed Close unto you, and, […]
Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster What have you more than I, who crave you so? Have I not hands and feet and thoughts to tell? All my sweet senses and fine dreams that swell Rich with contentments that the star-winds blow? Yet do I need you everywhere […]
You’re The Only One poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
You're The Only One poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster You’re my up, you’re my downThe smile to my frown. You’re my wrong, you’re my rightMy low point, and my high. You’re my light, you’re my darkMy soul and my heart. I’m the flood and you’re my arkMy uplifting laugh,a joyous warming spark. […]
Victims poem – Yaseen Anwer poems | Poetry Monster
Victims poem – Yaseen Anwer poems | Poetry Monster When victims seek sympathyCrying,Bleeding,Struggling…The echo not only travels length and breadthDrilling,Drifting,Struggling…It reaches to the core and approaches the zenith. Anglo File
The Senses of Art poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
The Senses of Art poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster I want to see like Monet, Blue and green inside the grey.I want to hear like Kandinsky, A boom in the purple.I want to think like Picasso, And make it all real.I want to interpret like Miro, Let my inner child show.I want […]
The Details Are poem – Zhivka Baltadzhieva poems | Poetry Monster
The Details Are poem – Zhivka Baltadzhieva poems | Poetry Monster The Details Are by Zhivka Baltadzhieva The details are the most important. The letter in the pocket, forgotten and unreadableafter laundry and tumble dry,the gaze I looked through, and passed by,the voice of the unuttered,the breath of a field, shaking in instant reactions,the everyday, […]
The 9th Inning poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
The 9th Inning poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster The end is near,The struggle clear,His daunting glare,An old man’s symbolism,gut churning. Calm down, relax,Your team is anxious. The count is full,The stadium is full.One last time for the year… Step up,Look up,Grip tight,Lean to the right — BLAP! There it is,I’ve done it,Well […]
Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster 1 I don’t feel like reading another book,and I’m tired of poetry—that’s not what I want to do.But my mind is restless, unsettled—I’ll try counting raindrop stainson the oilcloth window. 2 I finish chanting my new poemsand fall asleep—I am a butterfly journeying to […]
Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster On the forsakentable of a restaurant, Zwarte Ruiter,Starbucks, Willy’s Bar,someone left a pen for me. Someone lefta feather, a note scribbledin a language illegiblealong the stony pavements of a dome,Milan, Rome, Koln. Someone left a page,flash of a naked conch shell on an abandoned shore,Den […]
Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster Some singers are rockstarsSome singers sing nudeSome singers lie about everythingSome singers repeat everything, everything,everything.Some singers make loud sounds While a machine makes them millionairesSome singers get very lazy and leave the stage at their peakAnd some singers,Are way in over their […]