Ageing Schoolmaster by Vernon Scannell
And now another autumn morning finds me With chalk dust on my sleeve and in my breath, Preoccupied with vague, habitual speculation On the huge inevitability of death. Not wholly wretched, yet knowing absolutely That I shall never reacquaint myself with joy, I sniff the smell of ink and chalk and my mortality And think […]
A sinners prayer by Victoria Rose
A sinners prayer by Victoria Rose Dear god, I’ve lived and I’ve learned, I’ve lost and I’ve earned, I’ve made every mistake one can make I ate a fruit off a tree and I’ve danced with a snake. My hands are all dirty, My betraying lips are bleeding and burning. I killed my own brother […]
A quiet storm by Victor A. Bueno M.
Rays flashed the storm Light unfroze darkness Night concealed world It was me? Or did you? Who will be concerned? Passion never showed Sea waves shocked rock Just sand, just sea foam Merely fearful attempts Just insane precaution And wary moderation Made our time to love VABM September 2, 2011 Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
A poodle and a hound by Victoria Rose
A poodle and a hound by Victoria Rose I had a dream That I was with God. We weren’t in Heaven, We weren’t in a place full of sobs. He took me to a place, Where the grass was extra green And there I saw a poodle, Who was freshly groomed and clean. The pretty […]
A kiss to the ground by Victoria Rose
A kiss to the ground by Victoria Rose You only read the bible when you’re weak, You only pray when you can’t sleep. You only love once you’ve lost, You expect kindness to come with a cost. Soldiers die tonight For loving the blue red and white. Children are starving right now, But your shoes […]
A City Remembered by Vernon Scannell
Unlovely city, to which few tourists come With squinting cameras and alien hats; Left under a cloud by those who love the sun And can afford to marry – a cloud of bits Of soot more myriad than gnats, a cloud Of smoke and rain, an insubstantial threat Whose colour is the pigment of long […]
A Case Of Murder by Vernon Scannell
They should not have left him there alone, Alone that is except for the cat. He was only nine, not old enough To be left alone in a basement flat, Alone, that is, except for the cat. A dog would have been a different thing, A big gruff dog with slashing jaws, But a cat […]
We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic
We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic We were cold. On that summer night. We were embraced and talked about the rains. About the rains that were falling violently. Falling as if the sky itself was falling. Rains, that have fallen forever. Rains that made us soaking wet to the bones. Today we […]
Twins by Vinko Kalinić
We are sitting there one opposite the other, the sea and me neither I understand the sea nor the sea understands me there is nothing between us except the fog that bothers us wholeheartedly and that is so, nothing that divides us into two seas which are equally blue, endless and deserted only one conjunction […]
To a friend by Vinko Kalinić
Hey friend, let your hands grow as they pass, silently among people when tired at early dawn they wake all secrets, from all your warm harbours. In the dark of nights, when my God comes down when the stars begin (singing) their fables when common things turn magnificent I will think of you, as a […]
Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
Time to enjoy, Sunday being a holiday, With friends and relatives, for us it is a fun day, A sea of celebrations, why wait near the shore, Time for dive into it and do something more. Why Monday after Sunday, we have no clues, But start the week, waking up for the Monday morning blues, […]
The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
(All-points bulletin face) If they would ever ask me why life, I’ll tell them: because of the boy ! Because of the boy who’s like a leaf – and the tree and the wind and the road – and lots of other winding things from this, smoky side of me where roosters don’t sing where […]
The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
Stormy ocean is angrily hitting the rock the boy is sitting on the rock is patiently bearing strong kicks from the angrily sea and he’s quiet the boy is silently watching how the stormy sea is angrily hitting the rock he listens he listens how broken sounds are dripping the ancient songs about the rock […]
Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal
Summer We Called Home Unfulfilled promises jangle like an empty syringe of morphine Sprinkling the pain of blockages further into the veins The chapel at the turn of the street is cob-webbed with morbid confessions They tar its facade; reduce it to a box of walls when faith disappears I cannot pray anymore…I am sunk […]
Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram
Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram A lonely manwalks throughthe night,Searching hardfor the light.Life soakedwith whiskey and rye,Spends hourswondering why.He carries his burdensin his head,sometimes wishinghe was dead.But something carries him on.looking for a lifethat’s beenlong gone. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
Sometimes during ill days when gloomy and heavy rains drop onto my head I wander off somewhere at the very end of the city where lost boys in conspiracy with a wind patiently build their playful worlds of mud their hands lively and naked hanging over the clifs from where the flame burns swallowing gluttonously […]
See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
See, how I love you: like birds which are getting to the trip over the oceans not counting the time and the distance not even how much energy would they need to bridge the open sea not warring about the rains, storms and winds anger not even where would they sleep, or what would they […]
Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
You live inside my head and I know that I even remember the moment when you stopped to be a woman and became my destiny carelessly you passed through my morning flirty, fragile, wild and happy, with a smile, contagious like a plague you have passed through, like winds which come and pass by, and […]
Respect her by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
She is the creator; she brought you to this world, With all her love and care, you are beautifully mould, Whatever mistake you did, she still stood for you, She is the mother, did all this with no expectation from you. She tried everything, but did make you laugh, Wanted you to be always happy, […]
Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić
I can not write anything tonight. As the moon and the stars and the whole sky on this night are nothing else but cosmic panthomimes from an unsuccessful magician’s trick, sarcastic graphic signs of our civilisation, inarticulated sounds from which is imposible to read anything about perspectives of the mute universe. And the Earth, dry […]
Raw Silk by Vinita Agrawal
Raw Silk When at last we meet do not say hello That greeting for strangers… We’ve shared too many moons on the palettes of our nights When we meet Leave the race behind. Face me Become scent Stretch my lungs Become jaggery Color my tongue When we meet Come undone like a silken knot in […]
Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
Even when sad, Your eyes are beautiful like the night and the moonlight glare in vain the wicked thoughts coming that carry a pitcher of turmoil I, who is walking behind the clouds I testify: raise the head, child and it will shine stronger than dawning emerald jewel in the seashell of Your smile Zagreb, […]
Pure call of the wilderness by Vinko Kalinic
Pure call of the wilderness by Vinko Kalinic Sometime I have a feeling that I’ve lost myself long time ago on this world and that everything is being wrongly set: towns names, the streets names and the people names, signs on the roads, birth certificates and the flags colours. That we learned wrong subjects from […]
Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram Pigeons get lazy too. Surely this one saw the car and refused to move. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Peddler Road Flyover by Vinita Agrawal
Pedder Road Flyover It was here underneath the posh flyover with its underbelly bursting open like a crammed carton of sins that I learnt about life. I saw existence morph from penthouses and slick condos to the wall-less homes of ragpickers like a Salvador Dali painting, except for the curation of colors. Grey was the […]
Pay your last respects by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
And make them feel sad when we are gone, Life is a gift for us between birth and death, So live every moment, your every breath. We were born with a cry, And might end the same I don’t know why? Whatever we know, is the LIFE we spent, So don’t waste it ever, with […]
My rains by Vinko Kalinic
My rains by Vinko Kalinic Shoulder to shoulder, we are pouring like old mates, the rain and I. and it is so, we laugh, like crazy ones – cause sun doesn’t shine. The cold water walks after me, living man walks on a footpath – falls from the sky, returning to the land: I after […]
My mother was telling me by Vinko Kalinic
My mother was telling me by Vinko Kalinic My mother was telling me: my son, the Sun is up in heaven, don’t run after it, as nobody’s ever reached it so far. – And me, I haven’t believed her, because the Sun is something that every morning emerges in the corner of the sky, to […]
My angel’s face by Vinko Kalinić
All my life I was searching for the corner of the universe where I would bury the pitcher of my turmoil -and I didn’t find it I have walked the whole Earth across and all over many towns I came around and was lost amongst the people I visited remote villages too and those totally […]
Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal
Missing Person I don’t remember anything about the day we emptied mother’s ashes in the river. Just the overcast grey sky, dowelled like a Serengeti of gloom somewhere up above. The hospital had trussed her hermetically to prevent chemical bloating, scaffolded her abdomen in particular…too much tumor there, they’d said blandly. So, in the end, […]
Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić
Do not worry, I haven’t forgoten you even though we haven’t heard from each other for centuries. At some hollow time of the night, I’m still poetry writing because of you. And during the day, drinking often from that same invisible fountain, which makes me behave totaly childish. It happens at some blind time, when […]
Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic
Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic 1. classic song has rhyme. modern one has metaphors, philosophy, play of words and lots of bullshitting. my song has nothing. just you. naked. pure. with a smile of an angel and a look of a whore. ( but yes! – the most beautiful angel […]
Lets go by Vinko Kalinić
Give me your hand, lets go, lets get out of this banality – true, we might never be children again whose faces glow of innocent carelessness but we still can be people totaly extraordinary, and totaly different we can still avoid rail tracks and evade the roads we still can…we still can… all that never […]
Legacy by Vinko Kalinić
All loves are just the dust on the road which we are picking and stacking down in some softer part of us, then sometimes after being crushed of wandering and insomnia we stop in the middle of the street, asking ourselves who has left that husky emptiness in the sight who left the blunt echoes […]
Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
Life is so beautiful, what more should I seek, With families and friends, no better time what I could think, A rain of happiness, what a lovely shower, I love to get drenched without any cover. But not everybody are gifted, this makes me wonder, I start thinking, why did god do such a blunder? […]
Instead of farewell by Vinko Kalinić
– to Srdjan, the boy who has changed my world tell all those who you will love after me that your eyes have already conquered the world once. and also that your hands have split the ocean, dividing it in two. to those who would be kissing you in those sleepless nights , tell them: […]
If you love the life by Vinko Kalinić
If you love the life – dream ! perhaps sometimes some drop of that crazy infinity some of your darkness may attenuate Vinko Kalinic (Translated into English Darko Kotevski, Melbourne, Australia) Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic
I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic to have! to have! to have! that verb spinns around the world globe like tornado. one very small intimate selfishness tumbled up. and stamps over! stamps over! stamps over!…until it wades over everything that makes sense. and what is beautiful. even ourselves. I read that some […]
I am your friend by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
You are not alone, Keep your fears thrown, You are a beautiful soul, Who can win in any poll. You are my friend, I am here to blend. It is a beautiful day, Come let’s go out to play, It is your game; it is your choice, I am here for you, let’s just rejoice. […]
I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you by Vinko Kalinić
I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you And in the core of that dream There I stood The dream was blank The sky was empty and all the skies were devoured by the dark Your lips were the only thing shivering in the dark loose as the soil fervid as bread I don’t know, that dream, […]