Peace by Patrick Kavanagh
Peace by Patrick Kavanagh And sometimes I am sorry when the grass Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows And the cocksfoot leans across the rutted cart-pass That I am not the voice of country fellows Who now are standing by some headland talking Of turnips and potatoes or young corn Of turf banks […]
Planet Earth by P. K. Page
It has to be spread out, the skin of this planet, has to be ironed, the sea in its whiteness; and the hands keep on moving, smoothing the holy surfaces. ‘In Praise of Ironing’, PABLO NERUDA It has to be loved the way a laundress loves her linens, the way she moves her hands caressing […]
O Little Root of a Dream by Paul Celan
O little root of a dream you hold me here undermined by blood, no longer visible to anyone, property of death. Curve a face that there may be speech, of earth, of ardor, of things with eyes, even here, where you read me blind, even here, where you refute me, to the letter. End of […]
Night Ray by Paul Celan
Most brightly of all burned the hair of my evening loved one: to her I send the coffin of lightest wood. Waves billow round it as round the bed of our dream in Rome; it wears a white wig as I do and speaks hoarsely: it talks as I do when I grant admittance to […]
Motel Pool by P. K. Page
The plump good-natured children play in the blue pool: roll and plop, plop and roll; slide and tumble, oiled, in the slippery sun silent as otters, turning over and in, churning the water; or-seamstresses-cut and sew with jackknives its satins invisibly. Not beautiful, but suddenly limned with light their elliptical wet flesh in a flash […]
Miss Brown by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems For a quiver full of ArrowsI bare my chest as a stone. Pierce my heart For life without your seductive loveIs sin without temptation. You are now as rude as a bear,Since I have turned as ugly as sin. […]
Miracles by Paul Hostovsky
Miracles by Paul Hostovsky Spiritual texts are the most boring books in the world. None of them mentions a bicycle or a Ferris wheel, or baseball, or sea lions, or ice cream. They just lump them all together into “the world.” The “world of appearances.” The “world of illusions.” You can walk through this world […]
Memory Of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh
Memory Of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh Every old man I see Reminds me of my father When he had fallen in love with death One time when sheaves were gathered. That man I saw in Gardner Street Stumbled on the kerb was one, He stared at me half-eyed, I might have been his son. […]
Le monstre by Patryck Froissart
Le monstre by Patryck Froissart Ô fétides ténias, ascarides grouillants, Helminthes répugnants, horribles schistosomes, Ô hyènes ricanant, lycanthropes fantômes, Lycaons glapissant, chacals au train fuyant, Ô scorpions embusqués, acariens insidieux, Mygales camouflées, sournoises scolopendres, Ô guivres des marais, vireuses salamandres, Mambas vifs et vicieux, basilics pernicieux, Ô féroces requins, silures carnassiers, Sphyrènes affamées, murènes dévoreuses, […]
Landscape by Paul Celan
tall poplars — human beings of this earth! black pounds of happiness — you mirror them to death! I saw you, sister, stand in that effulgence. End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US […]
Jokes on You by Rohan Dunbar
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems Home » Topics » Passion Jokes on You by Rohan Dunbar You said I would never make it to see 18 Well the jokes on you You said I would never make it out of the hood Well the […]
Pamela Griffiths – Pamela Griffiths
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In Spite Of by Patricia Farley
In Spite Of by Patricia Farley Promises full of life for my existence That is what you gave to me forever Fulfilling my every need ever known Giving all that you could to me Belonging to me striving for me Doing what is best for me always Going the distance being the one To save […]
In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh
In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see You walking down a lane among the poplars On your way to the station, or happily Going to second Mass on a summer Sunday– You meet me and you say: […]
I Want Those Words Today by Pandian Chelliah
Long ago I wrote a poem for a girl talking about her eyes and her smile her love and her dreams May be if I look around I can still find the paper with the words floating in the air I want those words today when they dissolve my ashes into the quiet river with […]
I Awake and Choose To Live by P.J.Reed
I Awake and Choose To Live by P.J.Reed I awake And choose to live: To smell in technicolour To watch raindrops Chase and play With rippling puddles, Tickled by A teasing breeze. See smiling flowers Watch the sun Soar across the sky. And feel the wind Run wild and free Laughing, barefoot Through our lives: […]
I Am Me by Patrick Neo Mabiletsa
I AM ME I am confident in my gifts, I am faithful to my calling, Writing is my calling, My gifts are strength and character, I am who I am, I am a young, Strong-willed and unbreakable African, I am ME, I am a Mabiletsa, one of many men who is ‘STILL’ in his heart, […]
I am Ireland by Patrick Pearse
I am Ireland by Patrick Pearse I am Ireland: I am older than the Old Woman of Beare. Great my glory I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant. Great my shame: My own children that sold their mother. I am Ireland: I am lonelier than the Old Woman of Beare. End of the poem 15 random […]
I Am In Pain For You by Patrick Neo Mabiletsa
I am in Pain for you (Jesus) I am in pain for you; I am again and again in pain for you I am Jesus the one you are crucifying, Remember I was bruised, beaten and ridiculed, I never gave up, because of the pain I feel for you, I remember you every day, all […]
HEAL ME by WALID SABA
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems Home » Topics » Passion HEAL ME by WALID SABA I need your tender hands I crave your touch So I cry That you would wipe the tears off my face And I get ill So you would cure […]
Ghost Girl by P.J.Reed
Ghost Girl by P.J.Reed In the darkness The room bled red Grey shadows jumped. Poked and Prodded Curtains shivered In icy breathes As screaming voices Ran. Doors slammed shut Closed their eyes Melted into the wall. Running footsteps rang Wading through the Sinking Carpet And Stairs fell Away to Nothing. Oak wardrobe opened Wide its […]
Full Moon by Walid Saba
Beautiful woman … Put on that flowery dress Yes, it arouses me, I confess And the white hat And those gypsy sandals, Please, do not forget My body is about to ignite Just thinking what we will do We shall light up the night Just me, a hungry soul, and you Transgressing under the moonlight […]
Expressive Moments by Pamela Griffiths
Expressive Moments by Pamela Griffiths Each moment in time is a precious event A colourful imprint of life that’s been spent As expressive moments in time go by A deep inner feeling of not knowing why Expression of feeling the need to take part Someone to love that will capture the heart A place to […]
Expectations by Pamela Griffiths
Expectations by Pamela Griffiths From the day we are born, we expect certain things We don’t always get them, we get what life brings Life is not easy, it can be hard to get by Sometimes we wonder and then question why Expectations are there all the time, this is true Life is what you […]
Epic by Patrick Kavanagh
Epic by Patrick Kavanagh I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided, who owned That half a rood of rock, a no-man’s land Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims. I heard the Duffys shouting “Damn your soul” And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seen Step the plot defying blue cast-steel— “Here […]
Drowning. Not Waving by P.J.Reed
Drowning. Not Waving by P.J.Reed Weeping in a moaning wind, The willow waves goodbye. Rustling leaves, caressing The shivering grass. Startled, shrieking Circling flocks of flapping Blackness, wheel and fly. They will not sing for me. Rogue branches stir the waters, Heavy laden droplets crash Deafen my ears, Ripples run Fleeing from my gaze. You […]
Don’t Need Anything by Pat Mullan
Don’t Need Anything by Pat Mullan You gave me a present, A book on Haiku and I knew what you meant Without knowing your language the little brown bird dies on this bright May morning hitting the window I am a strange woman, I am a free spirit, you said,, And then you were gone […]
Dinner Date by P.J.Reed
Dinner Date by P.J.Reed Silently he stalked, Where the nameless walked Patrolling midnights beat With heavy, dragging feet. Creature of shadowland Lawman, with gun in hand. Fog smothers everywhere Shrouding the killing lair. Evil prowls the dead street; Echoes of muffled feet, Silently, people past, Dripping hearts, racing fast. Poster on shop window peers, As […]
Detached Living by P.J.Reed
Detached Living by P.J.Reed Detached, aloof in Red bricked splendour, Roof tiles sat in Frowning rows and Watched with stony stares. The chimney pot Refused to smoke. In a haze of purple velour Bay windows shut their eyes; While greying garden statues Slowly turned away. Golden leaves floated, Whispering softly to A wandering, wintry breeze. […]
Desire # 4 by Patricia Fargnoli
Desire # 4 by Patricia Fargnoli Soon he will leave, a man with four suitcases hurrying into the rain. All that can be kept then is the black belt of sadness which you have earned four times over. This is the hardest lesson– you must let go of what you would hold too firmly. Four […]
Décembre austral by Patryck Froissart
Décembre austral by Patryck Froissart Décembre agonissait mes vannes de bassan Ton delta palpitait vers l’aine de la plage, Orientant ma remonte au primal Hermitage; L’aile incarnée, j’allais, éludant l’abandon, L’ergot en hallebarde écharpant le chardon. Décembre apoplectique amollissait ma penne Filée du filao, rose métempsycose, Tu pausais là, plausible éclosion de ma prose. Ton […]
Death Fugue by Paul Celan
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at nightfall we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night we drink it and drink it we are digging a grave in the sky it is ample to lie there A man in the house he plays with the serpents he writes he […]
Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree by P. K. Page
His clumsy body is a golden fruit pendulous in the pear tree Blunt fingers among the multitudinous buds Adriatic blue the sky above and through the forking twigs Sun ruddying tree’s trunk, his trunk his massive head thick-knobbed with burnished curls tight-clenched in bud (Painting by Generalic. Primitive.) I watch him prune with silent secateurs […]
Crystal by Paul Celan
not on my lips look for your mouth, not in front of the gate for the stranger, not in the eye for the tear. seven nights higher red makes for red, seven hearts deeper the hand knocks on the gate, seven roses later plashes the fountain. End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry […]
Corona by Paul Celan
Autunm eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends. From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk: then time returns to the shell. In the mirror it’s Sunday, in dream there is room for sleeping, our mouths speak the truth. My eye moves down to the sex of my […]
Cologne by Paul Celan
In Kohln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang’d with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches; I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye Nymphs that reign o’er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But […]
Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh
Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption for me, that I do The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal, Grow with nature again as before I grew. The bright stick trapped, the breeze adding a third Party to the couple kissing on […]
Brooklyn Narcissus by Paul Blackburn
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Braga by Walid Saba
I was on my way to nowhere Tired, I unsaddled It is Porto, I was told O my! This is where I was going, Without even knowing Every stone here deserves attention Castles are old Just like I was told The Port is ancient The beer is always cold And everyone here smiles All worries […]
Bistro Memories by P.J.Reed
Bistro Memories by P.J.Reed The bistro bubbled Glowed and sang Tall necked glasses Chimed as one. Sunshine faces Giggled loudly Moonlight danced Around the floor Waitresses glide By cluttered tables Red lips bursting: Berry flavoured promises Caught your vacant eye The wine arrived As your heart left, Flew across the floor Hot face flickered Watched […]