Love Sonnet XVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Beloved, lest I should remember, I Must swift forget the wonder of last night. Hot memory would but blacken out my sight And dull my senses till they seemed to die. How could I live, remembering that sigh… That breath…that sob…that all sublime delight? Eternal joy is death, I think, and might Not such sweet […]
Love Sonnet XV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Love, you have brought to me my perfect soul, More sweet than earthly things, more precious rare, Hiding its fragrance in my loosened hair And folding up my body like a scroll. O, lie with me all night, and let the roll Of Rapture’s waves wash over us, as, bare Of anything save Love, we […]
Love Sonnet XLIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
In me there is a vast and lonely place, Where none, not even you, have walked in sight. A wide, still vale of solitude and light, Where Silence echoes into ebbing space. And there I creep at times and hide my face, While in myself I fathom wrong and right, And all the timeless ages […]
Love Sonnet XLIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Love is the sepulchre of all my sin, If it be sin to let the body sink In that slow dying the sick senses drink That ne’er have felt true Love’s delight rush in. Hot Vice may sear the bloom of Beauty’s skin Polluting Virtue with a painted wink, But Love smiles lightly at such […]
Love Sonnet XLII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
My true mind makes as many loves of you As my full heart contentedly can hold. And when the one grows dull, the other cold, Yet comes another swifter in to woo. I could not rue such changing retinue Nor chastise circumstance that keeps me bold. I make you young or middle-aged or old Just […]
Love Sonnet X poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
And then came Science with her torch red-lit And cosmic marvels round her glowing head— The primal cell, the worm, the quadruped— Striving to make each to the other fit. Tongue-trumpeting her own unchallenged wit, She offered me the woof of Wisdom’s thread, And Truth and Purity that hourly tread The paths where sages in […]
Love Sonnet LX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
My mind and heart both love you utterly. And so each thought of mine is doubly yours, And all my will about your body pours Scents of my blood and fires that flow from me. Who has created me, so young, so free, Eager to-day to close convention’s doors, To-morrow to return and sweep the […]
Love Sonnet LVIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Do not surcharge our souls with that vile blame To which our bodies are subjected here; Nor heap them with the horror of dull fear Base-borrowed from a life of torpid shame. But let them linger like a lovely flame Above the clay to which they must cohere, Lighting the earthly to the heavenly sphere […]
Girl-Gladness poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
It’s holiday time on the hollyhock hills, And I wish you would come with me laddie-love, now, The butterfly-bells, from the Folly-fool rills, Will ring if you listen, and drop on your brow. So, dear come along, I’ve a kiss and a song, And I know where the fairies are forging a gong To ring […]
Fortune poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Dame Fortune’s jade with a fanciful horn Of silver ambitions she warns of the flame; With pearls for the princes and tears night and morn For poor little poets who fluttered for fame, Who smile when she sings as she dances along; “Come; woo me with courage and delicate song.” I followed her once, but […]
Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
I would not curse your England, wise as slow, Just as unjust in deed. I can believe that from her heart may flow The truest human creed. She sounded one high call of Liberty That despots heard with dread; I know not what high purpose to be free Crowns yet her starry head. Do I […]
Books poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
Oh! Bury me in books when I am dead, Fair quarto leaves of ivory and gold, And silk octavos, bound in brown and red, That tales of love and chivalry unfold. Heap me in volumes of fine vellum wrought, Creamed with the close content of silent speech; Wrap me in sapphire tapestries of thought From […]
Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster Dearest, your mother feels (though dead) this birth— Laughs at the fire within your shining eyes— Your eyes, yet mine, wherein such glory lies Never before beheld upon the earth. She scents the fragrance of the lily-mirth Lilting this body that […]
Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
aboutlove Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster I know no miracle so manifest As that you wrought upon me yesterday, Filling with love my chalice of pure clay From fragrant fountains of your own dear breast. Beaten and sad, with aching eyes I pressed Close unto you, and, […]
Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster What have you more than I, who crave you so? Have I not hands and feet and thoughts to tell? All my sweet senses and fine dreams that swell Rich with contentments that the star-winds blow? Yet do I need you everywhere […]
You’re The Only One poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
You're The Only One poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster You’re my up, you’re my downThe smile to my frown. You’re my wrong, you’re my rightMy low point, and my high. You’re my light, you’re my darkMy soul and my heart. I’m the flood and you’re my arkMy uplifting laugh,a joyous warming spark. […]
Victims poem – Yaseen Anwer poems | Poetry Monster
Victims poem – Yaseen Anwer poems | Poetry Monster When victims seek sympathyCrying,Bleeding,Struggling…The echo not only travels length and breadthDrilling,Drifting,Struggling…It reaches to the core and approaches the zenith. Anglo File
The Senses of Art poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
The Senses of Art poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster I want to see like Monet, Blue and green inside the grey.I want to hear like Kandinsky, A boom in the purple.I want to think like Picasso, And make it all real.I want to interpret like Miro, Let my inner child show.I want […]
The Details Are poem – Zhivka Baltadzhieva poems | Poetry Monster
The Details Are poem – Zhivka Baltadzhieva poems | Poetry Monster The Details Are by Zhivka Baltadzhieva The details are the most important. The letter in the pocket, forgotten and unreadableafter laundry and tumble dry,the gaze I looked through, and passed by,the voice of the unuttered,the breath of a field, shaking in instant reactions,the everyday, […]
The 9th Inning poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
The 9th Inning poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster The end is near,The struggle clear,His daunting glare,An old man’s symbolism,gut churning. Calm down, relax,Your team is anxious. The count is full,The stadium is full.One last time for the year… Step up,Look up,Grip tight,Lean to the right — BLAP! There it is,I’ve done it,Well […]
Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster 1 I don’t feel like reading another book,and I’m tired of poetry—that’s not what I want to do.But my mind is restless, unsettled—I’ll try counting raindrop stainson the oilcloth window. 2 I finish chanting my new poemsand fall asleep—I am a butterfly journeying to […]
Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster On the forsakentable of a restaurant, Zwarte Ruiter,Starbucks, Willy’s Bar,someone left a pen for me. Someone lefta feather, a note scribbledin a language illegiblealong the stony pavements of a dome,Milan, Rome, Koln. Someone left a page,flash of a naked conch shell on an abandoned shore,Den […]
Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster Some singers are rockstarsSome singers sing nudeSome singers lie about everythingSome singers repeat everything, everything,everything.Some singers make loud sounds While a machine makes them millionairesSome singers get very lazy and leave the stage at their peakAnd some singers,Are way in over their […]
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 […]