Ten Years After by Graham Rowlands
Ten years after every beautiful cliche wearing jeans & kaftans & long hair & cheesecloth— after every beautiful cliche has gone or may as well have for all it means now L.B.J.’s gone & Che’s gone & Ho’s gone & Mao’s gone to their biographers in the sky without diamonds or L.S.D. Ten years after […]
Telescopes In The Square by Graham Rowlands
On Australia Day too. Good to see you. Like to sit on the grass? Good view. Up. Put your eye to the mouth of the flagon. Yes, eye. Go on. That’s all you have to do. Let me see. Here’s the green. I like green. Good for banks, building co-ops, insurance companies. That dark patch, […]
South Africa by Ronald G. Auguste
(For Nelson Mandela) Indeed! It is a new and shining land! So do not waste the New Day passing blame! From utter desolation, something grand Is rising … to obliterate the shame! The sun has set upon the sorry fields, And golden stars are twinkling in the skies. A new sun, rising on the New […]
Shattered Dreams. Broken Promises. by Russell James
Shattered Dreams. Broken Promises. by Russell James Shattered Dreams. Broken Promises. Unachieved Goals sadden souls. Feeling lost with no where to go feeling alone filled with sorrow. Went down the wrong path. Now I’m feeling the wrath of absolute failure man oh man this is such a Disaster. Will I be able to pick myself […]
Savour Your Life by Ronald G. Auguste
(For Sedacy Walden, my Grandson) Savor your life, and try to live it well! Each day should be a milestone on the path Devoted to pure Truth, where Angels dwell, And Love and Kindness keep one’s mind from wrath. Cherish each moment of each passing day. Your life should be a charm, where joy holds […]
Rosslyn To The Prime Minister by Graham Rowlands
Whatever I do now I’ll have your consensus against me— quite right to say you snow in the tropics only at the highest altitude of your own risk if you want an alternative Australia. But you & your consensus don’t do you, sport? Sports? Father? It’s only your economy, after all— refining, processing, high-tech. We’re […]
Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel
Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel (After Pushkin) Look at the bare wood hand-waxed floor and long White dressing-gown, the good child’s writing-desk And passionate cold feet Summoning music of the night; tumbrils, gongs And gamelans; with one neat pen, one candle Puttering its life out hour by hour. Is “Tell Him I love him” […]
Icicles round a Tree in Dumfriesshire by Ruth Padel
Icicles round a Tree in Dumfriesshire by Ruth Padel We’re talking different kinds of vulnerability here. These icicles aren’t going to last for ever Suspended in the ultra violet rays of a Dumfries sun. But here they hang, a frozen whirligig of lightning, And the famous American sculptor Who scrambles the world with his tripod […]
Conqueror by Russell Hughes Ragsdale
Conqueror by Russell Hughes Ragsdale I was a gulp of high air; a bird breathing in, a black dot on blue paper, a privileged recipient of finite sacrament of souls of flying saints. That all happened the moment you taught me splendid roundness as defined by the touch of your lips. The other mysteries fell, […]
Conversation 4: On Place by Rosmarie Waldrop
Conversation 4: On Place by Rosmarie Waldrop I sit in my own shadow, she says, the way my mother gave birth to it. In artificial light, blinds drawn against the darkness of power. I think of you as if you were that shadow, a natural enclosure, a world, not a slight, so I can wander […]
Welcome To My World © by Shannen Wrass
Have you ever tried to cry But there’s no tears left to shed Have you ever seen the face of misery Or looked into the eyes of dread Have you ever gripped the pain Cause it’s all that’s left to hold Have you ever tried so hard to love But found, your heart was just […]
Time Out To Cry by Shannen Wrass
All alone at the end of the day The time, just a little past ten Evening has come for a short stay It’s time for her sorrow again The smile on her face she’s been holding Suddenly, she lets fall And the feelings begin unfolding She comes out of her personal wall As the world […]
The Wrath of Love by Shawn Ervin
The Wrath of Love by Shawn Ervin It was an autumn morn; the smell of passing in the air was born, For my love, I waited my life for this woman that I adore, In the distance, we heard a bell, towering high, the church of angel, A shriek was heard as time seemed to […]
The Voice of Woman by Shahida Latif
The Voice of Woman by Shahida Latif I am the being, who contains the whole entities, Of the mother and daughter, the sister and wife, And includes the alive buried history of mankind. I am the being, who sacrificed the life full of bliss, By tasting the flavour of forbidden fruit, fearing least For the […]
The Victory by Shahida Latif
The Victory by Shahida Latif Both the parties contest the game of blood, One kills hundred; the other hundred one, The other wins the victory only for the one, But who knows that two hundred and one Who are killed, each one is a mother’s son. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
The Spring passing away by Shailendra Chauhan
The river is a river everyday The bridge everyday is a bridge The driver, jeep, contractor All the same … Why the mind doesn’t go beyond these? Looking around that day I witnessed the trees Passing away was the Spring. Passing over the Kurjan bridge I saw the sky full of clouds Expanding was the […]
The Ineffectual Dives by Shahida Latif
The Ineffectual Dives by Shahida Latif The World: a moving alive picture, A display, exhibition of pain, Saddening events and agonizing soreness, Where blood flows, shreds lay scattered, Amid the skeletons and dispersed skulls, Under the shadows of spurting mushrooms. A place where demons of troubles, Are nourished, fed and brought up, To make humanity […]
The Earth Trembles by Shahida Latif
The Earth Trembles by Shahida Latif The loathsome earth trembles, Under the load of humanity, At each step rises the wrath, With the surging waves of agony, Bringing ashore, Log-like limbless bodies, Colouring with blood, The coastal sands. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
The Demon by Shawn Ervin
The Demon by Shawn Ervin This journey I make alone, down further into the brimstone, I enter the realm seeing nothing but anger and hate, A stench of death and decay, the feeling of the prey, Before it is destroyed by the hunter, the feeling it’s too late, It comes for me; I can feel […]
The Callous Statues by Shahida Latif
The Callous Statues by Shahida Latif The callous statues, Sitting in front of the computers: The calculating machines, Press the buttons to launch havocs, Can not calculate the magnitude, Of pangs, pains and sheerness of cries, When they fall with deafening explosions, Upon the heads of humanity: Mewling infants, schooling kids, Women old and young; […]
Sheppard’s Quest by Shawn Ervin
Sheppard’s Quest by Shawn Ervin They talk to me, they guide me to here, I push and push, but still they lead, Madness is creeping in, but still the voices feed, Feeding a drive, pushing me to near, The source, and still they lead, My soul is tearing, my sanity is sheared. They have guided […]
Selfish World, Selfish People by Shahbaz Khan
It’s an old wine Refilled in new bottle Summer selfish Winter selfish And so is rain. Friends are good But chance turns them selfish Don’t ask about love Love is itself selfish. Winter wind you are not remedy But a curse to these selfish people, selfish world. Blow, blow and increase the pain Selfishness all […]
Repentance by Shailendra Chauhan
Go to the tree Tell it what is right Go to the river Tell the water your fears of mind Idols carved on stones are there in temples Go and confess to them Although you wish to tell that to a person like you only But you are afraid he may tell this to somebody […]
“Wishing to float” by Seema Gupta
“Wishing to float” I wish to float rather than walkalong with treasure of your lovable talk when I rest my head against your chestthose moments seem heavenly and best my desires guarded with your existencemy fantasies enriched with your presence you are a lovelore engraved in my mindyour soft touches and whispers I always find […]
Serendipity by Seema Gupta
The moment few groaning stars descend on the beauty of nightMoonlight flickering too shyBe reduced in the arms of seaand Chill tippet of winds Scattered on the shoulders of the treewish you to become Moon Slipping from the stairs of the horizonto secretly write serendipity on my palmIn desire of which Cache of a few breathsare hiddenin the silence of […]
Tiny Warrior by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Tiny Warrior by Sharmagne Leland-St. John You never saw the spring my love Or the red tailed hawk circling high above On feathered wings my love You only knew the snow You never saw the prairie grasses bend and blow And undulate like the shimmering indigo sea You never saw me Your eyes were closed […]
Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John Her man, A wild dark love song Borne deep within her gypsy soul He’s gone to live in jagged mountains Where salmon jump and sing In tarns High above The cloud lines Beyond the silver moon In the shadow of the Cader Idris In misty mountains Where […]
Evolution by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Evolution by Sharmagne Leland-St. John I swim near summer shadows glide over dappled shoals keeping to the fluid shallows reminiscent of the womb where I learned to swallow gulps of tantalising air in the amniotic sac where I shed scales preferring skin and hanks of auburn hair upon my head where I dispensed with fins […]
There Were Dry Red Days by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
There Were Dry Red Days by Sharmagne Leland-St. John by Sharmagne Leland-St.John There were dry red days Devoid of clouds Devoid of breeze Sound bruised My burning bones Dirt cracked my hands And caked my cheeks No buds on limbs of trees No birds on branches No hope of rain Scrawny chickens Kicked up dust […]
I Said Coffee by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
I Said Coffee by Sharmagne Leland-St. John I said coffee I didn’t say, “would you like to cup my warm soft breasts in your un-calloused, long, tapered, ring less fingered hands?” I said coffee I didn’t say, “would you like to run your tongue along my neck just below my left ear-lobe?” I said coffee […]
Peaceful Battles by Shekhar Srinivasan
“When He wants you to win, why sweat over those that don’t” The time for judgment had come, Ready to face the trial, Without being beguiled by emotion, Or perturbed by denial, Taking it with a smile on the face, With no guilt or remorse, For truth filled every ounce of effort, With win or […]
Passed Away Pain by Shalini Samuel
I was crawling deep down the woods Red, yellow, orange, green fruits smiling Flowers hanging above banged my head I was crawling, crawling and crawling * Days passed without a way out. Nights frightened me with darkness. Thorns and insects piercing my skin I started walking, walking and walking. * Rough became the forest terrain, […]
Pain Became My Friend Today © by Shannen Wrass
Pain became my friend today She showed me how to hide She’d been watching from a distance Every tear I cried Pain became my friend today She reached out her hand to me Then pulled me into darkness And introduced me to misery Pain became my friend today Emptying my heart Staying as my constant […]
Open sky by Shailendra Chauhan
They have closed the door and discussing and creating something I am sitting idly in the lawn under the open sky on green pious grass close to lamp-post Bicycles, motors, trucks are running in the street, I am unable to concentrate I listen to the pruning sound of shears Somebody is trimming the myrtle plants, […]
On the edge of time by Shailendra Chauhan
On the edge of time Withered is mind Lowered are Senses Cherished desire hangs Carefully like an arch Frigidity domineers Body and mind It’s hard To escape unarmed In this difficult time Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Life-companion by Shailendra Chauhan
a poem on you Shall write the twenty years of an enigmatic past an epic unusual an enormous geography The tale of a river ever-flowing freely, perpetually It’s necessary to intonate the rippling sound of water Narrate the contentment Speak of the faith reverence and dedication And this too that a river be called a […]
Joker of the Pack by Shekhar Srinivasan
One card in a 52 pack, Is a joker with no knack, Should he be sacked for his lack, The system shall go off track, Wonder what keeps them ticking? Perhaps a tea spoon of tricking, Or a little bit of boot-licking, And a bottle full of mimicking, Smothering the scruples of honesty, Kissing the […]
Its gonna be sunday by Shailendra Singh
someday I will not find myself obsessed , with the challenges I am blessed, I would not find myself surrounded , with the things that have left me confounded, I will not find myself entangled, to the aspirations which dangled, someday I will cease to say , I will complete this by may, Someday all […]
In her reach by Shailendra Chauhan
It’s day-break It’s hotter under the sun A woman with a bundle of sticks on her head is proceeding towards the town Along side fields The imprints come up of her barefooted walk with a confidence that tomorrow’s bread is in her reach Bread that’s bread only and nothing else No sensation, no frustration, no […]
Human Spirit by Shawn Ervin
Human Spirit by Shawn Ervin I find myself in a time of trouble, I’m left alone to face the scoundrels, I feel the world fighting me with rage. Tearing me down, bringing me to rubble, Taking more, never feeling full, They keep me trapped in my cage. I’m feeble and no longer have the power, […]