Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn […]
Drummer Boy by Thomas J Camp
His brave young heart is racing.!.. The Dragoons they are facing.!.. His only weapon sticks for a drum.!.. The patterned melody continues.!.. He loans his valor to his chums.!.. Enemy cannon are belching black.!.. The blunderbuss hot flaring back.!.. Sanity lost as muzzles roar.!.. The drum’s sound echoes across forest floor.!.. The rhythm as steady […]
Becalmed and Bewildered by Thomas J Camp
We do not know where we go. We do not know what we will need. We do not know when we will arrive, Or what state we may arrive in, once we do. We are headed somewhere, Both You and I. Even now, While adrift in the calm. Maddeningly, we strive, But alas to no […]
Autumn Leaves by Thomas J Camp
Why, in autumn, do leaves await the morning time? Is there a requirement that the Rooster crow to announce the event? Or does the bustle on the forest floor, Where the deer and rabbit find their way, Need to prepare somehow. Just like we may do, for a holiday? Trotting softly amongst the trees, The […]
You by Thonda Sri Indrani
Those initial unforgettable times, Happiness had the taste of the sweetest limes. Enthusiasm of knowing and being with each other sprung in every blood cell And I didn’t know that the memories which we were making unknowingly would come out so well. Now that our relationship has become a little old, And even though i […]
You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
You will go hence, sweetheart, and leave me, And may forget We ever met- And that it is, alas! will grieve me! And, yet, the past- How could it last! And could I know you would deceive me! The fleeting hours we spent together- The rambles far ‘Neath sun and star In peaceful calm and […]
Written at Stonehenge by Thomas Warton
Written at Stonehenge by Thomas Warton Thou noblest monument of Albion’s isle! Whether by Merlin’s aid, from Scythia’s shore, To Amber’s fatal plain Pendragon bore, Huge frame of giant-hands, the mighty pile T’ entomb his Britons slain by Hengist’s guile: Or Druid priests, sprinkled with human gore, Taught ‘mid thy massy maze their mystic lore: […]
Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
There is rapture in the thought, From thy words of constance caught, That the world contains no prize Like the peace thy love supplies. And I ponder o’er and o’er Words of love forevermore, As they come in tenderest tone From thy heart-which is my own. ————— The End And that’s the End of the […]
Why? by Tiffany Ann Monroe
Only four months old And she’s six feet under What’s God trying to prove I wonder? It’s just not fair, for she was so small She was so small she couldn’t even crawl Too young to understand how good life can be Dear God, could you not have let her see? In your own word […]
While Summer Suns O’er the Gay Prospect Play’d by Thomas Warton
While Summer Suns O’er the Gay Prospect Play’d by Thomas Warton While summer suns o’er the gay prospect play’d, Through Surrey’s verdant scenes, where Epsom spread ‘Mid intermingling elms her flowery meads, And Hascombe’s hill, in towering groves array’d, Rear’d its romantic steep, with mind serene, I journey’d blithe. Full pensive I return’d; For now […]
What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
There was love, and there was beauty, In the face upturned to me; And her hair was long and golden, Soft to touch and good to see; Her blue eyes were full of laughter As they burned into my own, Glowing like a priceless diamond- Fascinating as that stone. What is life but love, devotion!- […]
We are Africa by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems We are Africa. Bond in the love of unity With the spirit of oneness among each other. We are Africa With a whitening pure souls though we are blacks I say we are blacks But our soul and mind […]
Virgule by Thomas Lux
Virgule by Thomas Lux What I love about this little leaning mark is how it divides without divisiveness. The left or bottom side prying that choice up or out, the right or top side pressing down upon its choice: either/or, his/her. Sometimes called a slash (too harsh), a slant (a little dizzy, but the Dickinson […]
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the bright transparent mass, With Titian’s pencil, o’er the speaking glass! Nor steal, by strokes of art with truth combin’d, The fond […]
Vagueness Petrified by Thonda Sri Indrani
The way you make me miss you, lead to the growth of emptiness even more effective than a flu. The urge to speak with you crossed its limits I guess. But why does the gap which created wounds had the pungent of sweetness ? Like lightening it struck me that its only because of the […]
Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux
Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux gnawing through a shinbone, a high howl inside of which a bloody, slashed-by-growls note is heard, unlike that sound, and instead, its opposite: a barely sounded sound (put your nuclear ears on for it, your giant hearing horn, its cornucopia mouth wide) — […]
Town Planning Agencies by Tilottama Chatterjee
Trail of empty cans dragging revelry over tarholes that stretches big every year after the rains. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate repository of world poetry. Poetry Monster — the multilingual library of poetic works. Here you’ll find […]
Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
Torn Shades by Thomas Lux How, in the first place, did they get torn-pulled down hard too many times: to hide a blow, or sex, or a man in stained pajamas? The tear blade-shaped, serrated, in tatters. And once, in a house flatside to a gas station, as snow fell at a speed and angle […]
The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux follows the river as it bends along the valley floor, going the way it must. Where water goes, so goes the road, if there’s room (not in a ravine, gorge), the river on your right or left. Left is better: when you’re driving, it’s over […]
The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
Some roads rise To meet the men who have set their way. It’s the years that turn around to say goodbye. It’s the setting sun that sends it away. Where is wisdoms light In a future that never came. In bright eyes that once dared to fight It’s an empty wind that calls my name […]
The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton
The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton Mother of musings, Contemplation sage, Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock Of Teneriffe; ‘mid the tempestuous night, On which, in calmest meditation held, Thou hear’st with howling winds the beating rain And drifting hail descend; or if the skies Unclouded shine, and through the blue serene Pale […]
The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux each day mowed and mowed his lawn, his dry quarter acre, the machine slicing a wisp from each blade’s tip. Dust storms rose around the roar: 6:00 P.M., every day, spring, summer, fall. If he could mow the snow he would. […]
The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Have you e’er heard, at early morn, The feathered poet sing his song, Clear as a huntsman’s clarion horn, Yet softer, sweeter, and as strong? Have you e’er felt his magic power Soothe, as a balm, your troubled breast, Change into mirth the gloomy hour, Cradle th’ enchanted sense to rest? Have you e’er heard […]
The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
The heart that is pining for love that is vain Will outlive its sorrow and conquer its pain, Will seek where is hidden the balsam ‘gainst woe, And smile with the merry in pleasure’s glad flow. A few rashly seek to forget in red wine Th’ affection they strove with their love to entwine, But […]
The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Oh, take me again to the clime of my birth, The dearest, the fairest, to me on the earth, The clime where the roses are sweetest that bloom, And nature is bathed in the rarest perfume! Where the songs of the birds awake us at morn With a thrill of delight and pleasure new born; […]
The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune
The bird has vanished from its cage- Has left its prison house to me! It will not fill its song with rage Again-for it is free! Will it forget, can it forget, The love, the tender care, I gave, Or feel one throb of sad regret That ’tis no more my slave? Go, nameless one, […]
Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton
Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton Oft upon the twilight plain, Circled with thy shadowy train, While the dove at distance coo’d, Have I met thee, Solitude! Then was loneliness to me Best and true society, But ah! how alter’d is thy mien In this sad deserted scene! Here all thy classic pleasures cease, […]
Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
Ribbons and pearls, so tender is the age All dressed up with nowhere to go. I know your secrets to your hate and rage A little girl— one too many has tried to know. Deep behind the garden and around the bend Daddy’s hands always seem to find you there The tears of shame escapes […]
Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux More like a vault — you pull the handle out and on the shelves: not a lot, and what there is (a boiled potato in a bag, a chicken carcass under foil) looking dispirited, drained, mugged. This is not a place to go in hope or hunger. But, just to […]
Timothy Thomas Fortune – Timothy Thomas Fortune
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Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux Early germ warfare. The dead hurled this way look like wheels in the sky. Look: there goes Larry the Shoemaker, barefoot, over the wall, and Mary Sausage Stuffer, see how she flies, and the Hatter twins, both at once, soar over the parapet, little […]
On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton
On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton Where Venta’s Norman castle still uprears Its rafter’d hall, that o’er the grassy foss, And scatter’d flinty fragments clad in moss, On yonder steep in naked state appears; High hung remains, the pride of war-like years, Old Arthur’s board: on the capacious round Some British […]
Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton
Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton On this my pensive pillow, gentle Sleep! Descend, in all thy downy plumage drest: Wipe with thy wing these eyes that wake to weep, And place thy crown of poppies on my breast. O steep my senses in oblivion’s balm, And sooth my throbbing pulse with lenient hand; This […]
My Precious Girl by Tiffany Ann Monroe
So tiny,so small, and taken from us all Why God, have you forsaken me, You took my daughter before she could see Her first crawl, her 1st walk, her first word. I’m asking you god, have you even heard Are all my prayers and words in vain? Can you somehow take away this pain? I […]
My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
I never make-believe that there can be this day, This is the day of love which could find its way. Every day I lookout the sunrise and the sunset, I enjoy the beauty of flowers bloom around me. I can float on the breeze and fly on the wind, I can travel the cosmos, watch […]
Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
I awake to hear her voices, her smells bring me alive, and Mother Earth is all around me wanting for me to step outside. I see her creatures playing, the birds singing a tune, and the grasses are swaying to her sweet breaths perfume. Beauty is all around me, life in full bloom, waiting for […]
Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base (a huge red slug with a hole where its heart should be) or chose this print of a butterscotch sunset, must have been abused in art class as children, forced to fingerpaint with a nose, or a tongue. To put […]
Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux As you descend, slowly, falling faster past you this snow, ghostly, some flakes bio- luminescent (you plunge, and this lit snow doesn’t land at your feet but keeps falling below you): single-cell-plant chains, shreds of zooplankton’s mucus food traps, fish fecal pellets, radioactive fallouts, sand grains, […]
Lucky by Thomas Lux
Lucky by Thomas Lux One sweet pound of filet mignon sizzles on the roadside. Let’s say a hundred yards below the buzzard. The buzzard sees no cars or other buzzards between the mountain range due north and the horizon to the south and across the desert west and east no other creature’s nose leads him […]
Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Let mad ambition strive to gain The cherished wish that yields but pain; Let others seek for wealth alone, And with its cares their lives atone; But let me live my fleeting hour The slave of Love’s divinest power. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic […]