Frozen by Priyanka Tungana
I think I saw you today, across the road Moving in a crowd breaking the soft pattern of people Your side-burns seemed to have grown and Your ruffled hair now helps you make an impression I move a step forward to talk to you With a sense of belonging sweeping my heart But something held […]
From Another Sky by Pierre Reverdy
From Another Sky by Pierre Reverdy What shall become of me I feel myself dying Help me Ah Paris . . . the Pont Neuf I know this town Brief pleasures Brief sorrows My life Is it really worth mentioning Anyone could say the same And how else to pass the time I dream of […]
Forgotten by Priya Prithviraj
There’s a scented silence here, that’s broken only by the ticking of the kitchen clock, and the sound of rain. As I sit by the window, watching drops of rain chase each other down the windowpane, a cup of warm tea sits on the table, forgotten. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Forbidden Silence by Preeth Nambiar
When the way stretched from morning still evenings, tired of my struggle to catch those dicey moments escaping from my fingertips, in the twilight evening of serenity when I smiled, there was silence – melancholic silence! Holding the arms of the beloved listening to the songs of earthly love when slept, when the withering May-flowers […]
For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy Life is simple and gay The bright sun rings with a quiet sound The sound of the bells has quieted down This morning the light hits it all The footlights of my head are lit again And the room I live in is finally bright Just one beam is […]
For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy Life is simple and gay The bright sun rings with a quiet sound The sound of the bells has quieted down This morning the light hits it all The footlights of my head are lit again And the room I live in is finally bright Just one beam is […]
Elijah by Peter Bardsley
Elijah was a prophet of the God of Israel That he had many enemies it is not hard to tell. The foremost was the wicked queen whose name was Jezebel. Ahab refused to trust the Lord and with him have compliancePreferring with a heathen neighbour to make a close alliance; To seal the deal he […]
Eating a Wampee by Piera Chen
The skin parts like curtains, Out tumbles a tender load. The tongue fumbles for the flesh, Flicking, shoving, Letting the sweetness guide its plunder Like a traitor’s hand. Two seeds glisten in the quiet of a palm. Beside them the shriveled skin Neatly folded upon itself Without a hint of an arc. Like a moth […]
Dying Love!!! by Praveen Parasar
A fear in heart Of losing the game of love Being left alone, or To go blank emotionally, Sometime Makes me weak, and Makes me do; what Would make you, my love, happy! I say, I love you I do not feel it anymore, I say, I do not want to lose you, but It […]
Diving Deep by Pawan Kumar
What can be the most precious thought that I can brood How can I interact therein and churn the stuff lying? Billions of human minds with each unique in constitution & patterns Each has unique impacts depending upon experiences one gets. Billions of possibilities & a single mind capable of thinking great Many nerves & […]
Dead On Arrival by Preethi Saravanakumar
Divine Spring buds bloom; magnificent nature’s crown awaits golden light! Tantalizing scent… of love greets the morning sun, glorious union! Alas! Winter smiles… Amber-rays find dried petals; Dead on arrival! Copyright ©: Preethi Saravanakumar ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — […]
Creators by Pawan Kumar
Creators ————– How are epics created, from where the material comes How much is one prepared and big plot is created? How is a book written what chapters to be imbued, and one thinks beyond his time & ideas are generated? How does he decide purpose and dares in forward direction, collects necessary ingredients & […]
Composition by Peter Cooley
Composition by Peter Cooley I have watched from this chair all afternoon alone, while snow traces features of hills I’d never noticed, watching the light fall, get up, fall, pulling the dark after it. No one is here. No one inhabits me but my poem, images that stumble, rise to take the air, refusing measure, […]
Coconut by Paul Hostovsky
Coconut by Paul Hostovsky Bear with me I want to tell you something about happiness it’s hard to get at but the thing is I wasn’t looking I was looking somewhere else when my son found it in the fruit section and came running holding it out in his small hands asking me what it […]
Childhood Memories by Preethi Saravanakumar
Backyard; Sweet memories unbarred. I find Pure white flowers enshrined DivineChildhood days, now resign. Copyright ©: Preethi Saravanakumar ————— 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 […]
Betrayal by Priyanka Dutt
Do you look back To that time When we first met? There we were 2 people Lost in the crowd Looking here and there Till something clicked And u were suddenly my friend We spoke, we laughed Our togetherness was the talk of the town And with the changing colours of the seasons Our bond […]
Anguish of Fate by Pierre Reverdy
Anguish of Fate by Pierre Reverdy I ask the open door on the white wall I ask the roof And the field sloping behind the house A hand enfolds the earth in its fingers and tosses it to changing hues of a sky which is here the russet of a hare All the other animals […]
Abyss by Pierre Reverdy
Abyss by Pierre Reverdy I was ready for all that might happen Head lowered Feet touching my head And everything that moved in the corner Against the wall Opposite me and beside me The mirror as it faded had begun to tremble There was a light Long ago and the face that I see Midnight […]
A Saturday Sunrise by Philo Ikonya
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems an old church spire pierces the quiet morning. Industrial smoke rises too. I am watching actual reflections early. The open sky has come to meet us, here dawn is at 9.30am. Your nights are long, darkness fell at 3 […]
A reason for you by Pritha halder
Elated is your face, Placid is thou mind; Perhaps in me – the reason you’ll find. When your heart trumpets with pride, And the highest achiever is shy; Perhaps in me – the reason may lie. When your head is held high, And the biggest malady at cure; Perhaps in me – “humanity” is pure. […]
A man who set his journey back to time by Preeth Nambiar
Through the falling lids of jaded eyes, show me a land dense of green, amidst the woods appear the streams, the bells of anklets of a naughty girl hide beneath the huge tree trunks. Chasing the shyness deep in the woods, lead me to the virgin lands, unseen, worn! Show me a hut there to […]
A Longing for Silence! by Preeth Nambiar
Come aboard, O dear, with your wings wet of rain! Though the nails would bruise my skin, leave your pace upon my palm, stay caressed by the softest touch! There is warmth within me to shelter your dreams and my duffel has grains to feed your hunger. On the shore of the flooded river, amidst […]
A Heart Divided by Pierre Reverdy
A Heart Divided by Pierre Reverdy He so spares himself He so fears the coverings The sky’s blue coverlet And pillows of cloud He is ill-clothed by his faith He is so afraid of steps that go awry And streets chipped in the ice He is too tiny for winter He so fears the cold […]
A dragonfly that committed suicide by Preeth Nambiar
I thought of its possible past – birth from a tiny egg; the amusement to see the beautiful world around it; the joy of flying amidst the plants in the wild gardens; the moments of togetherness with loved ones and at the end the pain of understanding its wings getting tired even in the slowest […]
Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
My Heart held out, against your Face, and Eyes, But cou’d no more, against your Breech, and Thighs, Which they, both took, and wounded, by Surprize; Who, till then, did (as ’twere,) in Ambush ly, For my poor Life, at least, my Liberty; So secret Enemies, more Mischief do, The less still they, […]
To his Indifferent Mistress by William Wycherley
I. Ah! Dear, proud Charmer, cou’d you prove At once more Cruel, or less Fair, Your Cruelty wou’d speak some Love, In turning Mine to strong Despair; For luke-warm Love, or cold Indifference, Keeps with more Pain my Flame in more Suspence. II. To make me Yours, you still disdain, Yet can’t consent to let […]
The Poor Lover to His Rich Mistress about to Marry His Coxcombly Rival by William Wycherley
He av’n is not gain’d with Wealth, or Bribes, we know, So (Divine Thing!) I nothing bid for you, No Shining Dirt, as my Rich Rivals do; Tho’ Di’monds, Pearl, may purchas’d be with Gold, Your Eyes, Teeth, at a Higher Rate I hold; My Precious, and Inestimable Dear! He who wou’d buy thy Love […]
Sleep and Death by William Wycherley
O Sleep! thou dost thy healing Virtues lend, At once t’instruct our Nature, and befriend. Do’st to our wearied Limbs fresh Strength supply, And giv’st Ideas what ’twill be to die. Brother of Death! In Office how the same! Both lent us to repair our shatter’d Frame; Yet diff’ring here, that Sleep at best can […]
On a Sea Fight, Which the Author was in, Betwixt the English and Dutch by William Wycherley
Pluto himself did tremble in his Hell, Pale Ghosts look’d paler, to hear new Ghosts tell What was in Neptune ‘s Empire done above By Two great Fleets, that for Hell’s Empire strove. Each Side, like Fiends, in Fire and Smoke did fight, And put the Dev’l himself into a Fright; For both dispatch’d to […]
Love and Wine by William Wycherley
In vain I Drunkenness forswore, Because by That made Sick and Blind; Since tho’ I have the Flask giv’n o’er, Love still intoxicates my Mind. If then for either Sottishness, Alike Man’s Sense is in Disguise; No matter which way, sure, it is, By sparkling Wine, or sparkling Eyes. Yet most debauch’d the Lovers shew, […]
In Praise of Laziness by William Wycherley
O God-like State! thou Heav’nly Laziness! Which, in thy Rags, canst thy Professors Bless, Ensure their Innocence, Peace, Ease, or Rest, Ev’n here, with Poverty, to make ’em Blest; Their Faith, and Honour, best dost justifie, Securing their Good Name, and Liberty, From Scandal, Care, Fear, Pain, and Slavery; Blest State on Earth! […]
Drinking-Song, A. To a Formal, Proud, Sober Coxcomb by William Wycherley
I. Let the Dull, Sober, and the Grave, But fit for drudging, Bus’ness have; Let sitting still, my Hand employ, My busie Tongue, not thoughtless Head; Employment, which wou’d Cares destroy, Not such, by which, more still are bred; II. Let all Ambitious Sots flie high, To make their Steps more slippery, Whilst I, with […]
A Consolation to Cuckholds by William Wycherley poems
Injurious, spightful, and ill-judging Town, To cry the Trade of Cuckold-making down! When by it half your Sons to Honours rise, And raise their Fortunes, and their Families: Why then should that be deem’d Disgrace, or Shame, To which so many owe their Wealth and Name And so gain Honour, ev’n in Spight of Fame? […]
What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
You gave your life. Boy. And you gave a limb: But he who gave his precious wits, Say, what regard for him? One had his glory, One has found his rest. But what of this poor babbler here With chin sunk on his breast? Flotsam of battle, With brain bemused and dim, O God, for […]
To A Soldier In Hospital by Winifred Mary Letts
Courage came to you with your boyhood’s grace Of ardent life and limb. Each day new dangers steeled you to the test, To ride, to climb, to swim. Your hot blood taught you carelessness of death With every breath. So when you went to play another game You could not but be brave: An Empire’s […]
To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
To come at tulip time how wise! Perhaps you will not now regret The shining gardens, jewel set, Of your first home in Paradise Nor fret Because you might not quite forget. To come at swallow-time how wise! When every bird has built a nest; Now you may fold your wings and rest And watch […]
Tim, An Irish Terrier by Winifred Mary Letts
It’s wonderful dogs they’re breeding now: Small as a flea or large as a cow; But my old lad Tim he’ll never be bet By any dog that he ever met, Come on ‘says he’for I’m not kilt yet! No matter the size of the dog he’ll meet, Tim trails his coat the length o’the […]
The Spires Of Oxford by Winifred Mary Letts
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against the pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die. The years go fast in Oxford, The golden years and gay, The hoary Colleges look down On careless boys at play. But when […]
The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
IT’S in Connacht or in Munster that yourself might travel wide, And be asking all the herds you’d meet along the countryside, But you’d never meet a one could shew the likes of her till now, Where she’s grazing in a Leinster field my little Kerry cow. If herself went to the cattle fairs she’d […]
The Harbour by Winifred Mary Letts
I think if I lay dying in some land Where Ireland is no more than just a name, My soul would travel back to find that strand From whence it came. I’d see the harbour in the evening light, The old men staring at some distant ship, The fishing boats they fasten left and right […]