Househunting by Mike Yuan
since i eloped with my little dream from a straw-roofed farmhouse reed fenced in a chinese village i have traveled far and wide moving from city to city sheltering my yellowish soul in an asphyxiating basement or a dramatically drab apartment or a democratic duplex always in a rented room until i am now privileged […]
Hiking by Mike Yuan
between two tall skeletons of birches i walk right into the heart of mid-autumn with the city gate as my starting point but without any predetermined destination along a less frequently trodden trail i keep traveling behind my own soul each time I climb onto a little ridge i see another higher up just ahead […]
Growth: for Allen Qing Yuan by Mike Yuan
soon after his fifth birthday my little allen solemnly promised to purchase someday a huge house for mom a big benz for dad a mighty motorcycle for bro and a big pail of paint for grandpa two birthday cakes before he often immitated playing “wild wild west” with a broken broom as his electric guitar […]
Global Warning by Mike Yuan
it is not so much carbon doxide from metal pipes as more and more fret, frenzy and friction that burst out into the sky making the whole world dangerously warmer (sept.19, 2004) End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com […]
Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory
Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory Four Corners There is a large man with a sled, splintered and wooden beneath its red paint’s fading, selling roses to the blind. Women passing in babushkas carry babka, paper bags, and milk. There is the rust of pennies mixing with the scent of lemon candles, flames which must […]
Forever Ya by Miraj Patel
You are my heart, you are my life, Having you to my side you make me feel alive… Sometime in my life, when the day seems darker, You come to me and save my heart from getting colder… Forever i be and do like i told ya, Now and ever be the same coz gul […]
Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas
Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas Far pitched tents I met you again as on the first time stench of blood and war cries in far pitched tents End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – […]
Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory
Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory Entering the Body after Gunter von Hagen’s Body Worlds All I could think of at first was cooking. Of that skinned rabbit in my freezer, fur torn, gaze jammed between a package of phyllo and a carton of ice cream. Of all that succulent meat dripping from its […]
Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje
Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje Catch, my Uncle Jack said and oh I caught this huge apple red as Mrs Kelly’s bum. It’s red as Mrs Kelly’s bum, I said and Daddy roared and swung me on his stomach with a heave. Then I hid the apple in my room till it shrunk like a face […]
East Idioms (1): A Fable by Mike Yuan
once there stood still a tremendous oak tree trying to enjoy dreaming her own dream in her humble but hilarious way suddenly a wild west wind starting to blow her back bent like a madly mating moose never letting his sexual desire rest unable to stand straight up she shrugs off her broken branches End […]
Don’t Hang Up The Phone by Miraj Patel
I miss those day when you called me late at night, I know you sleepy but you say its alright, We talk from night to morn, Still don’t wish to hang up the phone, You say baby i wanna talk some more, Even if nothing else to say, Just wanna stay awake, Don’t wanna take […]
Christmas Dance of the Hours by Michael T. Bee
Dust of forgotten dreams in my eyes – I rise with coughs and creaksand cold morning on my legs. The dark house rumbles with my father bear tread to the kitchenand I loose a hundred screams of a Colombian morning fromtheblack-howlers, and tamarins in the grinder. I muffle their din with a dishtowel but a […]
Change of Climate by Michael S Wilson
You praise the glories of those green hills, Oaks and daisies swaying in the breezes; Farmhouses and homesteads and stone mills, Rivers and lakes and ponds with fish leaping. You are entitled to your opinions, although they seem wrong, For I choose to enjoy more wide-open pristine vistas; Asteroids and new worlds, entire star systems […]
Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan
Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan unlike the proud Prometheus you stole from an unknown paradise the white seeds of pure peace sowing them tender and graceful with softly solid stillness in a dry and dreaming land are you blessings bountiful from high above or just muted wishes deep in our hearts? (aug. 18, 2004) End […]
CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN
CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN Caesar’s Last Breath —Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) On the Ides of March, great Caesar stabbed to death by friends, expelled his final breath in exclamation, an accusation I’m forced to share by Fermi’s calculation each time I respire in joy or despair an atom of the cry my Mother gave […]
Birthday Love Song by Miraj Patel
You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, With a soul so pure and heart so clean, For me it’s just the most beautiful you, Baby there can never be another you, Words can’t describe how beautiful you are to me, You are ma one in a billion, You are ma 7 wonders, […]
Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
Before it is time, even the night will not come although the sleepy, peeping birds are sometimes deceived by dusk’s lurking shadows. Even the day will not come before it is time, but the dew will water its path and wait patiently on leaves. . And, even if we may blow candles every year, death […]
Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight I yell ok. Finish something I’m doing, then something else, walk slowly round the corner to my son’s room. He is standing arms outstretched waiting for a bearhug. Grinning. Why do I give my emotion an animal’s name, give it that dark squeeze […]
Bang-Bang by Mikey D Wentworth
Bang bang Banging at the door In the dead of night The dark illuminates your fright As I’m pulled from your bed Dragged across the floor. Bang bang Banging inside your head Festering wounds inflicted by structural violence But the pain illuminates your silence As you escape into ignorance Safe in the sewer with […]
Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman
Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman Goodbye America of the blue overalls and steel-toed boots, goodbye, goodbye. The headline in The Sun said it all today in type as tall as the re-election of a president: General Motors Closes Its Broening Highway Plant. Don’t you remember when they said what was good for GM […]
Awakening by mike yuan
Awakening by mike yuan as a stony statue sitting still under a tremendous tree my inner self fallen into a deep doze while i travel around all the time trying to find the right path through the thorny bushes leading to the hill top a large flock of nameless birds held in their unsinging mouths […]
At the Kitslano Beach by Mike Yuan
i spot and pick up a curious clam whose flimsy lips fairly open and her tongue keeps reaching out as if to reveal the saltiness of seawater the sad face of sand and anecdotes about certain fishes whose narration i really do not understand although my younger son assures me he can End of the […]
Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory
Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory Artery What will they find when they cut you open? Who will be there when they take back your ribs and press onward to your heart? Will they see me kneeling at the edge of your river of blood? Will there be earlier versions of you? Of us floating by […]
Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje Two birds loved in a flurry of red feathers like a burst cottonball, continuing while I drove over them. I am a good driver, nothing shocks me. End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking […]
Apologize by Miraj Patel
When i was down, lost in the world of hope, I had u to catch my rope.. When nothing was alright, i had u at ma side to the right.. When i fear, u said, don’t worry dear, when m near.. I was searching for an angel in the skys, u were here nd i […]
Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles
Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles Oh, kind power of light, you are my flower of the sun. She is the light of the sun and the flower You are my one, the Flower , which by the Peach was spun Crafty and Benevelant you hide in your lun Disheveled, but omniscent […]
A Domestic Dialogue by Mike Yuan
how can i have myself unfettered? —-who has fettered you? no one really except an unseen hand —-then you are free End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US Quant.com – a search engine […]
19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory
19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory The game went into overtime that night. The moon didn’t Stay to witness, having other places to be. On top Of Mount Thoradour she couldn’t wait To lose her virginity. This was before the war. Before he would leave her Pregnant with Sierra, alone, before he returned, His left arm’s […]
YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar
YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar YOU A moving panorama Of wonders Of shades and colors An infinite variation Expressing eternity Liquid pools your eyes- of cascade pure Surging and welling A language Of dance and dreams That locked me in tantalizing Ever moving, ever expressing A profound reflection Of depth Of caressing feminity Of quelling passions […]
Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin
Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin Gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right. The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful, quick at the bone and the case we had against them was airtight, both exits shoehorned shut with puddingstone, but they had a sub-sub-basement out of range. Next morning they turned […]
Woman Work by Maya Angelou
I’ve got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed The garden to weed I’ve got shirts to press The tots to dress The can to be cut I gotta clean up this […]
When You Come by Maya Angelou
When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of days too few. Baubles of stolen kisses. Trinkets of borrowed loves. Trunks of secret words, End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s […]
Welcome A.O.H. Men by Michael McGovern
Welcome men of Irish blood, With open arms we meet you In the name of Irish Nationhood And faith we hospitably greet you. We welcome you with all the love And friendship men shroud owe each other, And hope each grasp we give may prove The honest pressure of a Brother. For Ireland’s triumphs and […]
Weekend Glory by Maya Angelou
Some clichty folks don’t know the facts, posin’ and preenin’ and puttin’ on acts, stretchin’ their backs. They move into condos up over the ranks, pawn their souls to the local banks. Buying big cars they can’t afford, ridin’ around town actin’ bored. If they want to learn how to live life right they ought […]
Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy
Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy Good evening sir, may I take your hat and coat, Just leave your wallet with the bell boy, Come this way, your table is waiting, Filled with outrageous goodies of lip smacking relish, An orgasmic cheering for the stomachs chic posture, Observe the detachment of the in…tuition’s direction, […]
Travel to Infinite Places by Michael Levy
Music drifts through a thousand minds, Through doors, windows, walls. Serenades sail tranquil waters, Ebb in one ear, flow out the next, Ever onward, navigating infinity, Lovers touch, sending electric messages beyond space and time, Turquoise crystal thoughts blow freely, Across oceans, mountains, plains, Visions of extreme delights fly faster than light, Beaming sensitivity beyond […]
To A Cricket by Michael McGovern
Clamorous cricket in the wall. Thus chirping as night’s curtains fall, I often think with wonder how such bare-boned, tiny thing as thou. In heated nooks within the mill Can rasp thy song all night so shrill. How oft at night I’ve sat alone And heard thy sharppeculiar tone, If as a tone I may […]
The Woods At Night by May Swenson
The Woods At Night by May Swenson The binocular owl, fastened to a limb like a lantern all night long, sees where all the other birds sleep: towhee under leaves, titmouse deep in a twighouse, sapsucker gripped to a knothole lip, redwing in the reeds, swallow in the willow, flicker in the oak – but […]
The Waradgery Tribe by Mary Gilmore
The Waradgery Tribe by Mary Gilmore Unfortunately this poem has been removed from our archives at the insistence of the copyright holder. End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US Quant.com – a search […]
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today by Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, […]