Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster
Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster I met you in the dream againlast night.We went to a Graveyard.For some reason,I wanted to worship my grandparents.We dashed here and there,saw no Tombstones at all,instead,Hundreds of booths.Someone told usthe graveyard turns a marketduring off season.I saw people yelling, exchangingand Laughingon the Graveyard.I knew you […]
Sabbath, My Love poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
Sabbath, My Love poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster greet my love with wine and gladsome lay;Welcome, thrice welcome, joyous Seventh Day! Six slaves the weekdays are; I shareWith them a round of toil and care,Yet light the burdens seem, I bearFor your sweet sake, Sabbath, my love! On the First-day to the […]
River poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
River poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster Between your marbleshoulders and my hairy chest the river roaring,tears, tears, tears… Between your mellowingmouth and my scented tongue a night of flamesand flesh, flesh, flesh … Between your hefty thighsand my throbbing hands clouds drunkfrom the forests of rhododendrons. Between your almond eyesand my warm […]
Rising Early poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
Rising Early poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster Chrysanthemums in bloom—as gaunt as ever; peonies, leaves falling off, seem completely withered. A locust, frozen nearly to death, clings desperately to a cold branch. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster […]
Retake, Union Square poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
Retake, Union Square poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster In Whole Foods CaféI sip my Ceylon teacrushing oatmeal cookieon a long shared tablefacing a fish facedslender girl, Caliban-like,smell of an alien body,her ash grey hairdone into a regular chignon,filthy, motley, twistedat an eerie angle,an antenna of her frizzled mind…She slurps herOrganic pumpkin soup, […]
Requiem For A Bartender’s Dream poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Requiem For A Bartender's Dream poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Requiem For A Bartender's Dream by Ysabelle Moriarty Music wafts fromThe concert hallInto my empty bar.The fact that I’m notThe one taking the stageReopens a long closed scar.The glasses stand readyThere’s wine to be pouredThe performer’s hopeTo be adored.Just close your eyes […]
Repentance poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
Repentance poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster O Lord, how I thank theeTo have thy love so close to me. To be forgiven, to be redeemedTo be able to head upstream. Lord, I’ll work hard, I’ll do my bestI’ll keep thy commandments, I’ll have no rest. I’ll come to forgive, I’ll come to […]
Prisoners poem – Yusef Komunyakaa poems | Poetry Monster
Prisoners poem – Yusef Komunyakaa poems | Poetry Monster Usually at the helipadI see them stumble-danceacross the hot asphaltwith crokersacks over their heads,moving toward the interrogation huts,thin-framed as box kitesof sticks & black silkanticipating a hard windthat’ll tug & snatch themout into space. I thinksome must be laughingunder their dust-colored hoods,knowing rockets are aimedat Chu […]
Potions poem – Yusef Komunyakaa poems | Poetry Monster
Potions poem – Yusef Komunyakaa poems | Poetry Monster The old woman made mintCandy for the childrenWho’d bolt through her front door,Silhouettes of the great blue Heron. She sold ten-dollar potionsFrom a half-lit kitchen. Chinese boxesFurnished with fliers & sinkers. Sassafras& lizard tongues. They’d walk out Of the woods or drive in from cities,Clutching lovesick […]
Once Upon A Wandering Mind poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Once Upon A Wandering Mind poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Once Upon A Wandering Mind by Ysabelle Moriarty This realm of rainGrey sky and cloudIt’s quite and peacefulSafe, allowed. I hear the storiesThe secrets in inkThe pages that callAre the missing link. Beethoven, black coffeeDark fire and iceSweet strings and composersOld friends […]
On A May Glory-A Welcome Song poem – Nithin Purple poems | Poetry Monster
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Now, What is Poetry? poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
Now, What is Poetry? poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster Now, what is poetry?If you say it is simply a matter of words,I will say a good poet gets rid of words.If you say it is simply a matter of meaning,I will say a good poet gets rid of meaning.“But,” you ask, “without […]
Night poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
Night poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster Kandilli floated upon sleep—We trailed the moonlight on the deep.We took a shining silver trackAnd spoke no word of turning back.Phantom trees on the dreaming crest…Pensive slopes where the waters rest…The season’s end was such a time—The distant note of a hidden chime.We passed and […]
My Father’s Love Letters poem – Yusef Komunyakaa poems | Poetry Monster
My Father's Love Letters poem – Yusef Komunyakaa poems | Poetry Monster On Fridays he’d open a can of JaxAfter coming home from the mill,& ask me to write a letter to my motherWho sent postcards of desert flowersTaller than men. He would beg,Promising to never beat herAgain. Somehow I was happyShe had gone, & […]
Mules poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
Mules poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster Mules On the great Tibetansalt route they meet me again old forsaken friends … On their facesfatigue of a drunken sleep their lives worn out,their legs twisted, shaking from carryingillustrious flags of bleeding ascents. Age long bells clingingto them like festering wounds beating notesof a slavery […]
Love’s Confession poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
Love's Confession poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster Love is scary, Love is tough,Its not a thing where you can bluff,It doesnt work 9 out of 10 times,But not giving it a shot is the biggest of crimes. This is why I want you to give us a try,Dont listen to the questions […]
Life poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
Life poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster There is a halt where sea and sun appear,There is a halt where both the worlds appear,And the last halt—an autumn long drawn out—Where past and future as a dream appear. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems […]
La Vie Boheme poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
La Vie Boheme poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster La Vie Boheme by Ysabelle Moriarty We try to writeAnd dance and singAnd other sillyCreative things.Getting nowhereSlowly dieErode our soulsSell out and lie.Magnum opusLeft half doneCan’t afford toHave much fun.I’m over dramaticBut our lives are realWorking, whoring.To borrow or steal?We wait for a chanceBut […]
Journal Entry poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Journal Entry poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Journal Entry by Ysabelle Moriarty From when I was a little childI picked up on thought and soundIt isn’t always visible but it is still around.It’s the talent and the beautyThe poetry of lifeYou find it in a sonnetOr the colours of MonetIn Pavarotti’s voiceThe […]
[ I think I’m there? ] poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
[ I think I'm there? ] poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster Depression withdrawn,Portable flashlight linked —Nauseating smoke (s),An old friend gone.Is this it? Anglo File
Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee poem – Zameer Careem poems | Poetry Monster
Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee poem – Zameer Careem poems | Poetry Monster Six decades of glorious years have passedAnd an empire has turned into a commonwealth of nationsbut its regal splendour and history still lives onas memories are treasures,time cannot destroy it all She was born to create a golden ageto defend the law and […]
Heartbreak at 2 A.M. poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
Heartbreak at 2 A.M. poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster It is 2 a.m. in the morning,I knew it to be a kind of warning,Its been two days since you replied,Then I saw your status and inside me something died. ” You light me up inside,whenever you are around I always seem to […]
Groupie poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Groupie poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Groupie by Ysabelle Moriarty Another nightTo do some harmAnother club stampOn her arm. Vodka, whiskyRock n rollLets the musicFill her soul. Knows all the bandsHeard every songHit every clubBut doesn’t belong. She’ll drink to passAnother dayAnd rock to keepThe pain at bay. Ran from a mistakeThen […]
Glacier poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
Glacier poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster A hopethat someday I shall sprout like a treeon the edge of a remote hillside. A hopesomeday a Queen-of-the-Night shall bloom in my chestand suck all the smoke I have inhaledin these malignant cities. A hope that somedaya just born brook shall clean and wash awaythe […]
Ghouls parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster
Ghouls parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster When the sun dies and the nights resurrectIts time for mankind to retireTo sunken pillows and cold bedsYawns and dimmed lights mark this hourWhen all sleep and snoreKnowing not what to expect It time to rise my prettiesThe hour of the phantom has finally comeOur […]
Ghouls’ Parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster
Ghouls' Parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster When the sun dies and the nights resurrectIts time for mankind to retireTo sunken pillows and cold bedsYawns and dimmed lights mark this hourWhen all sleep and snoreKnowing not what to expect It time to rise my prettiesThe hour of the phantom has finally comeOur […]
Gazel poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
Gazel poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster The ancient carouse of JemshidWith a tinkling of wine-cups returns;And pleasure from nightfall till dawnWith cyclical dances returns.The mirrors of pleasure reflectThe flames of the torch of the heart;With a thousand moons and starsBeauty with passion returns.The souls of the chantings of oldRise open and […]
Fantasy poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Fantasy poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Fantasy by Ysabelle Moriarty I belong to theBoys in my mind.The heroes in booksKnights and that kind.The honest, the brave,The funny, the flawed.Give me a villianI’d never get bored.We weave our own talesOf love and hate.Seeking our own kindOf prince or pirate. Copyright ©: Ysabelle Moriarty […]
Drying Clothes poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
Drying Clothes poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster At noon I leave my clothes out to dry;at sunset I fold them upand carry them home in a willow-wood box.The women laugh and ask each other:“Who’s that old servant with bare feet?” ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, […]
Destiny poem – Zubair Ahmad Parray poems | Poetry Monster
Destiny poem – Zubair Ahmad Parray poems | Poetry Monster We came here to enjoy our lives And do the things that are of need But we are here to be among the naives Or to be a cause for an evil deed. We forget what we do good As we never did by our […]
Bloodstains from Iraq poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
Bloodstains from Iraq poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster In the handsof the black night severed headof a young Buddha trying to readits pallid face’s expressionin a pool of blood shining likea magical mirror nearits speechless torso. Anglo File
Autumn poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Autumn poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Autumn by Ysabelle Moriarty Autumn leavesThat fall from treesThey crunch beneath my feet.The bitter windsThis season bringsStir lovers’ hearts awake. Copyright ©: Ysabelle Moriarty ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the […]
Adieu poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
Adieu poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster Holding my breath when you walk in through the door,loving how you look and struggling to pick up my jaww from the floor,Loving everything about you,Cause of you, I started seeing life in love’s different hues. Yet, now I feel empty, I feel cheated,My plans and […]
About Troy poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
About Troy poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster 1 Troy O Troyan archeologistwill sift your ashes through his fingersyet a fire occurred greater than that of the Iliadfor seven strings— too few stringsone needs a chorusa sea of lamentsand thunder of mountainsrain of stone —how to leadpeople away from the ruinshow to leadthe […]
A Faery’s Lament poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
A Faery's Lament poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster A Faery's Lament by Ysabelle Moriarty I’m a faery who’s lostI can’t find my wings.In this glen I’ve been tossed,But in moonlight I sing.Freedom stolen,Bound to this fate.My sky has been taken,But I do not hateThe one who cast meAmong tree roots and streams,And […]
A Visit to Yu’s Cave poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
A Visit to Yu's Cave poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster Once I rode a phoenix over the Nine Doubtful Mountains;now I ride the wind up Mount Kuei-chi.Yu’s Cave is dark and deep—I peer down,but Yu lived so long agoit’s hard to tell if he was really here. Thin mists obscure the highest […]
A Knocker poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
A Knocker poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster There are those who growgardens in their headspaths lead from their hairto sunny and white cities it’s easy for them to writethey close their eyesimmediately schools of imagesstream down their foreheads my imaginationis a piece of boardmy sole instrumentis a wooden stick I strike the […]
A Ballad That We Do Not Perish poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
A Ballad That We Do Not Perish poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster Those who sailed at dawnbut will never returnleft their trace on a wave— a shell fell to the bottom of the seabeautiful as lips turned to stone those who walked on a sandy roadbut could not reach the shuttered windowsthough […]
One Night, The Fukien Robbers poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
One Night, The Fukien Robbers poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster One night, the Fukien robbers eyed Kwangtung;by morning, the Southern armies had all moved eastward.The shouts of the troops shook cliffs and valleys;banners flapped briskly in the cold wind.Leopards and tigers gathered from all sides;the rebel leaders were wiped out with a […]
O My Lord, Your Dwelling Places Are Lovely poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
O My Lord, Your Dwelling Places Are Lovely poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster O My Lord, Your dwelling places are lovelyYour Presence is manifest, not in mystery.My dream brought me to the Temple of GodAnd I praised its delightful servants,And the burnt offering, its meal and libationWhich rose up in great pillars […]