The Passing of Stumpy Shore by Mervyn John Webster
The Passing of Stumpy Shore by Mervyn John Webster The Constable had found the man ’round five on Friday morn; Apparently while on his shift from midnight through ’till dawn. Two youths, with blood stains on their clothes, detained drunk in the park, Disclosed they’d rolled some homeless bloke, sometime just after dark. Now Sergeant […]
The Mothering Blackness by Maya Angelou
She came home running back to the mothering blackness deep in the smothering blackness white tears icicle gold plains of her face She came home running She came down creeping here to the black arms waiting now to the warm heart waiting rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face She came down creeping […]
The Meaning of Music by Mercedes Madrigal
In the dictionary, music is defined as, “vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.” But there’s definitely more to it than that, isn’t there? Music is so many different things. It’s emotion, compassion. It’s a way of life. Imagine waking up one day, and music didn’t exist. How would we […]
The Lesson by Maya Angelou
I keep on dying again. Veins collapse, opening like the Small fists of sleeping Children. Memory of old tombs, Rotting flesh and worms do Not convince me against The challenge. The years And cold defeat live deep in Lines along my face. They dull my eyes, yet I keep on dying, Because I love to […]
The January Birds by Maurice Riordan
The January Birds by Maurice Riordan The birds in Nunhead Cemetery begin Before I’ve flicked a switch, turned on the gas. There must be some advantage to the light I tell myself, viewing my slackened chin Mirrored in the rain-dark window glass, While from the graveyard’s trees, the birds begin. An image from a dream […]
The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin
The Hermit Goes Up Attic by Maxine Kumin Up attic, Lucas Harrison, God rest his frugal bones, once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. The wood was new. The pitch ran down to blunt the year: 1811, the score: 10, he carved into the center rafter to represent his loves, beatings, […]
The Gravy Train by Michael Levy
Take a ride on the Gravy Train, clickerty-clack on the track to a gain, wealth and fortunes to a destination with no name, no signals to stop, forgetting the station from whence we came. The journey of a lifetime, seeing love in money, hands in the pots, grabbing all the honey, no time to taste […]
The Fishermen, The Gulls & The Bible People by Michael Estabrook
The Fishermen, The Gulls & The Bible People by Michael Estabrook funny morning on the beach about 9 AM I’m alone but then these 2 guys with beards & long hair & cigarettes dangling from their mouths, these 2 fisherman, appear on the shore in a motor boat toss in an anchor drag 4 really […]
The First Thrush by Mary Gilmore
The First Thrush 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 Fairies Break Their Dances by A. E. Housman
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn, And up from India glances The silver sail of dawn. The candles burn their sockets, The blinds let through the day, The young man feels his pockets And wonders what’s to pay. End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external […]
The Burning Crusade by Memphis Knight
Vast asleep in this dying dream In the brutal war of flame to man a distant echo of a childs scream Brought the epilogue of deaths plan The blazing heat and dancing flame destroyed invunerable walls to last and our hearts became sulpher For judging eachother with the past Their tongues a fire scourge the […]
The Rolling Mills by Michael McGovern
I love to see the rays of light That from the furnace flow, Like Phantoms in the arms of night Quarrelling as they go Parading o’erthevalley when The slumbering town is still Oh, then I think there’s beauty is The shadows from the mill Copyright ©: 1933, The Youngstown Vindicator End of the poem 15 […]
Sweethearts by Mary Gilmore
Sweethearts 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 engine from […]
Stars and Jasmine by Maurice Riordan
Stars and Jasmine by Maurice Riordan Each of them has been a god many times: cat, hedgehog and – our summer interloper – the tortoise. A perfect triangle, they can neither eat nor marry one another. And tonight they are gods under the jasmine under the stars. Already the hedgehog has scoffed the cat’s supper […]
St Patrick’s Day by Michael McGovern
Again arrives that holy day, As Earth its yearly circuits makes; That much revered St Patrick’s Day That day of days which e’er awakes Within each heart of Irish race. A Christian thought- a loving thrill: When kindled memories kindly trace Some verdant vale; some shamrocked hill, From which the thinker had to roam Upon […]
Singapore by Mary Gilmore
Singapore 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 engine from […]
Rile Me Up! by Michael D Wentworth
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems I’m not sure what makes me angrier: The fact that wars are still being fought Provoked by men with ulterior motives and security details Mass murderers who speak of peace with blood on their hands Inciting their flock with […]
Remembrance by Maya Angelou
Your hands easy weight, teasing the bees hived in my hair, your smile at the slope of my cheek. On the occasion, you press above me, glowing, spouting readiness, mystery rapes my reason When you have withdrawn your self and the magic, when only the smell of your love lingers between my breasts, then, only […]
Raindrops by Michael Mulcahy
raindrops patter upon my window drizzling thoughts of you grey clouds upon a backdrop of an uneasy sky a torrential downpour of questioning flooded crevices of weeping memories there is a fatidic sense of life’s placement umbrellas can deflect the drops but we all get drenched in the end each puddle hides and drowns a […]
Purgatory by Maxine Kumin
Purgatory by Maxine Kumin And suppose the darlings get to Mantua, suppose they cheat the crypt, what next? Begin with him, unshaven. Though not, I grant you, a displeasing cockerel, there’s egg yolk on his chin. His seedy robe’s aflap, he’s got the rheum. Poor dear, the cooking lard has smoked her eye. Another Montague […]
Progress by Michael McGovern
You have travelled close beside the human race From where it first evolved and led it on; E’er moving with increasing bolder pace From Darkness up to where your beacon shone. Tho’ ignorance and superstition oft Have blocked your way, you ne’er vouchsafed to veer From off your course, but held your torch aloft- The […]
Pejar Creek by Mary Gilmore
Pejar Creek 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 engine […]
Passing Time by Maya Angelou
Your skin like dawn Mine like musk One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a sure beginning. 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 […]
O Singer in Brown by Mary Gilmore
O Singer in Brown 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 […]
No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest by Mary Gilmore
No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest 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 […]
New York’s Bad Dream by Matthew Abuelo
New York’s Bad Dream by Matthew Abuelo New York used to be a squatters town and a misfits town and a union town. This is where you could find a cheap room at the Chelsea or the Dexter House with a bathroom down the hall. Or at the Commander. Many SROs vanished into the remains […]
New York’s Last Gleanings by Matthew Abuelo
New York’s Last Gleanings by Matthew Abuelo New York used to be a squatters town and a misfits town and a union town. This is where you could find a cheap room at the Chelsea or the Dexter House with a bathroom down the hall. Or at the Commander. Many SROs vanished into the remains […]
Nationality by Mary Gilmore
Nationality 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 engine from […]
Momma Welfare Roll by Maya Angelou
Her arms semaphore fat triangles, Pudgy HANDS bunched on layered hips Where bones idle under years of fatback And lima beans. Her jowls shiver in accusation Of crimes cliched by Repetition. Her children, strangers To childhood’s TOYS, play Best the games of darkened doorways, Rooftop tag, and know the slick feel of Other people’s property. […]
Modest Sounds by Michael Brandon Odom
Modest sounds my mind speaks in 3’s What a shy comfort multi-colored fall leaves In and out w/ confusing thoughts We were never something including faults Down to drown your milky white skin Blood to tears to fears we all sin Snap of a bone and drying eyes For no more will anyone feel your […]
mine danse macabre doppelganger by matthew scott harris
housed within mine impenetrable hermetically sealed invisible bubble draped with blackened Hades hued habiliment therein dwelt sinister saboteur mastermind marauder of the Hubble who demanded sacrifice to traverse river styx with unadulterated gelt which known phantasmagorical double whose piercing fiery ocular presence unseen but felt thine true self amidst the aftermath from Armageddon rubble astride […]
Million Man March Poem by Maya Angelou
The night has been long, The wound has been deep, The pit has been dark, And the walls have been steep. Under a dead blue sky on a distant beach, I was dragged by my braids just beyond your reach. Your hands were tied, your mouth was bound, You couldn’t even call out my name. […]
Merging, Emerging by Shahida Latif
Merging, Emerging by Shahida Latif The forsaken are recollected, The forgotten are remembered, But one who resides in the deep, Recesses of the temple of the heart, Is adored, worshiped in silences, In solitude to establish communion, To dissolve, absorb into one entity, As a dropp merges, mixes into an ocean, To become an ingredient […]
Men by Maya Angelou
When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the street. Wino men, old men. Young men sharp as mustard. See them. Men are always Going somewhere. They knew I was there. Fifteen Years old and starving for them. Under my window, they would pause, Their shoulders […]
Little Clock by T. Wignesan
for Gertrud Widmayer, my landlady at Heidelberg Why in pensive ticking, silent thoughts You wile your time away When all around huge swelling bells Toll the days away! Every hour that announced may go Your silent hands take hold And though the ages chimed in ears Yours they never behold. If all the clocks the […]
Let me Count the Poets Left by Michael K. Shiu
You must not assume what I assume You must not hold the sun between your eyes You must not face the rapture alone The waves of the future sink us You will become obsolete Can you endure that? In fact, inject giraffes into your poems? It will not be enough As writers we skirt the […]
Last Turn Of The Morning Carousel/Forever Turn The Midnight Carousel by Matthew Abuelo
Last Turn Of The Morning Carousel/Forever Turn The Midnight Carousel by Matthew Abuelo Am I just another antiquity An artist who finds a natural home Among the paupers whose graves are marked with serial numbers Instead of headstones? I hate gimmicks and dismiss them Like any other moment of mediocrity. The truth is that I […]
kaleidoscopic whorled wide web. by matthew scott harris
against light source well crafted tubular structure appended with eyepiece gazing offers viewer eye-opening, mindboggling instantaneously birthing then vanishing resplendent myriad colorful geometric awesome shifting shapes hypnotizing sight seer into a whirling gigolo where multifaceted fractals display pin-wheeling arithmetically perfect triangulate squarely with proportionate arcs astounding with blind faith on microscopic scale analogous to cosmic […]
Kailangan ko’y Yakap by Melissa Sazon Flores
Ang kailangan ko ay yakap At yakap mo..ang aking pangarap.. Kung sayo ba ako ay lalapit- Pangarap na yakap kaya- aking makakamit? Ang kailangan koy yakap mo.. Ngiti mo, ang syang papawi sa..mga luha ko.. Kapag ako ba ay umasa- Ako kaya ay iyong mapupuna? Buhay pag yakap ka,ay nais alamin- Kaya’t pag ibig na […]
It Asked a Crumb of Me by Michael K. Shiu
Hope is the thing that catches you When you have children It perches in your soul like A quiet song, you cannot explain it Faith has feathers without words It’s simple, profound And has a quality that never stops Its flight traverses dawns Hope is a quality of purpose To have a future is enough […]