La Vie Boheme poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
La Vie Boheme poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster La Vie Boheme by Ysabelle Moriarty We try to writeAnd dance and singAnd other sillyCreative things.Getting nowhereSlowly dieErode our soulsSell out and lie.Magnum opusLeft half doneCan’t afford toHave much fun.I’m over dramaticBut our lives are realWorking, whoring.To borrow or steal?We wait for a chanceBut […]
Journal Entry poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Journal Entry poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Journal Entry by Ysabelle Moriarty From when I was a little childI picked up on thought and soundIt isn’t always visible but it is still around.It’s the talent and the beautyThe poetry of lifeYou find it in a sonnetOr the colours of MonetIn Pavarotti’s voiceThe […]
[ I think I’m there? ] poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
[ I think I'm there? ] poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster Depression withdrawn,Portable flashlight linked —Nauseating smoke (s),An old friend gone.Is this it? Anglo File
Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee poem – Zameer Careem poems | Poetry Monster
Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee poem – Zameer Careem poems | Poetry Monster Six decades of glorious years have passedAnd an empire has turned into a commonwealth of nationsbut its regal splendour and history still lives onas memories are treasures,time cannot destroy it all She was born to create a golden ageto defend the law and […]
Heartbreak at 2 A.M. poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
Heartbreak at 2 A.M. poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster It is 2 a.m. in the morning,I knew it to be a kind of warning,Its been two days since you replied,Then I saw your status and inside me something died. ” You light me up inside,whenever you are around I always seem to […]
Groupie poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Groupie poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Groupie by Ysabelle Moriarty Another nightTo do some harmAnother club stampOn her arm. Vodka, whiskyRock n rollLets the musicFill her soul. Knows all the bandsHeard every songHit every clubBut doesn’t belong. She’ll drink to passAnother dayAnd rock to keepThe pain at bay. Ran from a mistakeThen […]
Glacier poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
Glacier poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster A hopethat someday I shall sprout like a treeon the edge of a remote hillside. A hopesomeday a Queen-of-the-Night shall bloom in my chestand suck all the smoke I have inhaledin these malignant cities. A hope that somedaya just born brook shall clean and wash awaythe […]
Ghouls parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster
Ghouls parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster When the sun dies and the nights resurrectIts time for mankind to retireTo sunken pillows and cold bedsYawns and dimmed lights mark this hourWhen all sleep and snoreKnowing not what to expect It time to rise my prettiesThe hour of the phantom has finally comeOur […]
Ghouls’ Parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster
Ghouls' Parade poem – Brako Attafua poems | Poetry Monster When the sun dies and the nights resurrectIts time for mankind to retireTo sunken pillows and cold bedsYawns and dimmed lights mark this hourWhen all sleep and snoreKnowing not what to expect It time to rise my prettiesThe hour of the phantom has finally comeOur […]
Gazel poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
Gazel poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster The ancient carouse of JemshidWith a tinkling of wine-cups returns;And pleasure from nightfall till dawnWith cyclical dances returns.The mirrors of pleasure reflectThe flames of the torch of the heart;With a thousand moons and starsBeauty with passion returns.The souls of the chantings of oldRise open and […]
Fantasy poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Fantasy poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Fantasy by Ysabelle Moriarty I belong to theBoys in my mind.The heroes in booksKnights and that kind.The honest, the brave,The funny, the flawed.Give me a villianI’d never get bored.We weave our own talesOf love and hate.Seeking our own kindOf prince or pirate. Copyright ©: Ysabelle Moriarty […]
Drying Clothes poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
Drying Clothes poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster At noon I leave my clothes out to dry;at sunset I fold them upand carry them home in a willow-wood box.The women laugh and ask each other:“Who’s that old servant with bare feet?” ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, […]
Destiny poem – Zubair Ahmad Parray poems | Poetry Monster
Destiny poem – Zubair Ahmad Parray poems | Poetry Monster We came here to enjoy our lives And do the things that are of need But we are here to be among the naives Or to be a cause for an evil deed. We forget what we do good As we never did by our […]
Bloodstains from Iraq poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
Bloodstains from Iraq poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster In the handsof the black night severed headof a young Buddha trying to readits pallid face’s expressionin a pool of blood shining likea magical mirror nearits speechless torso. Anglo File
Autumn poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
Autumn poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster Autumn by Ysabelle Moriarty Autumn leavesThat fall from treesThey crunch beneath my feet.The bitter windsThis season bringsStir lovers’ hearts awake. Copyright ©: Ysabelle Moriarty ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the […]
Adieu poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
Adieu poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster Holding my breath when you walk in through the door,loving how you look and struggling to pick up my jaww from the floor,Loving everything about you,Cause of you, I started seeing life in love’s different hues. Yet, now I feel empty, I feel cheated,My plans and […]
About Troy poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
About Troy poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster 1 Troy O Troyan archeologistwill sift your ashes through his fingersyet a fire occurred greater than that of the Iliadfor seven strings— too few stringsone needs a chorusa sea of lamentsand thunder of mountainsrain of stone —how to leadpeople away from the ruinshow to leadthe […]
A Faery’s Lament poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
A Faery's Lament poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster A Faery's Lament by Ysabelle Moriarty I’m a faery who’s lostI can’t find my wings.In this glen I’ve been tossed,But in moonlight I sing.Freedom stolen,Bound to this fate.My sky has been taken,But I do not hateThe one who cast meAmong tree roots and streams,And […]
A Visit to Yu’s Cave poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
A Visit to Yu's Cave poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster Once I rode a phoenix over the Nine Doubtful Mountains;now I ride the wind up Mount Kuei-chi.Yu’s Cave is dark and deep—I peer down,but Yu lived so long agoit’s hard to tell if he was really here. Thin mists obscure the highest […]
A Knocker poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
A Knocker poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster There are those who growgardens in their headspaths lead from their hairto sunny and white cities it’s easy for them to writethey close their eyesimmediately schools of imagesstream down their foreheads my imaginationis a piece of boardmy sole instrumentis a wooden stick I strike the […]
A Ballad That We Do Not Perish poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
A Ballad That We Do Not Perish poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster Those who sailed at dawnbut will never returnleft their trace on a wave— a shell fell to the bottom of the seabeautiful as lips turned to stone those who walked on a sandy roadbut could not reach the shuttered windowsthough […]
One Night, The Fukien Robbers poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
One Night, The Fukien Robbers poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster One night, the Fukien robbers eyed Kwangtung;by morning, the Southern armies had all moved eastward.The shouts of the troops shook cliffs and valleys;banners flapped briskly in the cold wind.Leopards and tigers gathered from all sides;the rebel leaders were wiped out with a […]
O My Lord, Your Dwelling Places Are Lovely poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
O My Lord, Your Dwelling Places Are Lovely poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster O My Lord, Your dwelling places are lovelyYour Presence is manifest, not in mystery.My dream brought me to the Temple of GodAnd I praised its delightful servants,And the burnt offering, its meal and libationWhich rose up in great pillars […]
Not Speaking Of The Way poem – Yosano Akiko poems | Poetry Monster
Not Speaking Of The Way poem – Yosano Akiko poems | Poetry Monster Not speaking of the way,Not thinking of what comes after,Not questioning name or fame,Here, loving love,You and I look at each other. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster […]
My Sweet Lad You Have Not Been Lost poem – Yiannis Ritsos poems | Poetry Monster
My Sweet Lad You Have Not Been Lost poem – Yiannis Ritsos poems | Poetry Monster My son, what Fate has destined you and what Fate was my doomto kindle such burning grief, such fire inside my breast? My sweet lad, you have not been lost, you live inside my veins.My son, flow deep into […]
Kodja Mustafa Pasha poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
Kodja Mustafa Pasha poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster Kodja Mustafa Pasha! Poor and distant Istanbul!Since the conquest you’re a devout believer, and needy,Here live those who deem sorrow is pleasure. I was with them all day in this lovely dream.Our motherland and nation are inseparable twins.Thus we alone have been seen, […]
Itri poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
Itri poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster The great Itri has of old been calledThe Patron of our music;How he leads the people far and near,That conqueror of the day-break,On how many holiday mornings earlyRattling the heavens with their voices massed together,Have they chanted the magnificent Tekbir.From Budapest to Iraq, even unto […]
He comes poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
He comes poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster He comes, O bliss!Fly swiftly, you winds,You odorous breezes,And tell him how longI’ve waited for this! O happy that night,When sunk on your breast,Your kisses fast falling,And drunken with love,My troth I did plight. Again my sweet friendEmbrace me close.Yes, heaven does bless us,And now […]
From the morrow poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster
From the morrow poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster From the morrowWould I pick new herbsBut in my marked out fieldsBoth yesterday and todayThe snow has kept on falling ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate […]
From the bay at Tago poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster
From the bay at Tago poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster From the bay at TagoI see, when gazing out,Pure white-On the heights of Fuji’s peak-The snow has fallen ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate […]
Feeling Lazy poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
Feeling Lazy poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster My sleepy eyes fog over…long lazy day.I put down my book of poetryand take a walk around the house.The cats are playing happily in the courtyard;when they see me coming they scatterlike frightened deer. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry […]
A love song poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
A love song poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster “Do you see over my shoulders falling,Snake-like ringlets waving free?Have no fear, for they are twistedTo allure you unto me.” Thus she spoke, the gentle dove,Listen to your plighted love:“Oh, how long I wait, till my sweetheart comes back,” she said,“Laying his caressing hand […]
Don’t Light The Candles by Yahia Al-Samawy
Don’t Light the Candles poem – Yahia Al-Samawy poems | Poetry Monster Don’t light the candles, Shahrazad Shahriyar lays waste a town a night He bathes his madness in its blood He pours fires into the vessels of peace. Leave the country There is famine in Basra The plague in Baghdad And on the roads […]
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot On the meaning and significance of the poem Translations The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot FOR EZRA POUND IL MIGLIOR FABBRO I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull […]
Émigrés by Anna Barkova
edited, unrhymed translation by © Евгений Сухарников, Fledermaus, Poetry Monster, 2021, Russian original Émigrés by Anna Barkova Émigrés both internal and external, We, eternal migrants on the go, Though we are keen to lull our own feelings, Friendships fade and enmity grows. Émigrés both internal and external, No one waits for us or wants us […]
A Sure Sign by Georgi Ladonshchikov
Edited, unrhymed translation: © Fledermaus, Poetry Monster, 2021 The wind is chasing the clouds, The wind is moaning in downpipes The rain is slanting, spreading cold Knocking on the window glass. There are puddles on the roads And they, too, wince from the cold, Sad rooks. Are hiding under the canopy That’s a sure sign, […]
Civil War Songs
Civil War Songs – a small collection of American Civil War Songs [lwptoc] THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM by George F. Root, 1862 Yes, we’ll rally round the flag, boys rally once again, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom And we’ll rally from the hillside We’ll gather from the plains, Shouting the Battle Cry […]
I have outlived my own desires by Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine)
translated by Fledermaus, Евгений Сухарников, © 2021 I have outlived my own desires I now detest my own dreams My suffering never expires It is no longer what it seems Under the storm of the most brutal fate My flowering wreath wilted away I languish in a disheartened state And only for the […]
In Defense of Santa Claus
Not fully rhymed though edited translated by © Fledermaus, Евгений Сухарников, Poetry Monster, 2021 The Russian original, by Agnia Barto, is perfectly rhymed though… My brother (he outgrew me) Brings everyone to tears. He told me that Santa Claus Is not what he appears! He told me: -Don’t believe in him! — But then suddenly […]
Winter Apples by Tatiana Gusarova, translated by Fledermaus
Tatiana Gusarova, Winter Apples, Unrhymed edited translation, © Fledermaus, Poetry Monster, 2021 Sunny, fine It’s been a long day. The whole family on skis Got out into the woods. Suddenly a three-year-old Vovka 1 Says to his mother: “Look, oh miracle! An apple is hanging Over there on Christmas tree!” And I looked to the […]