The Wild Goose’s Will by Mike Yuan
Those who know me not Find me a kite tied to the skyline Those who know me well See in me a true sunshine chaser I have never traveled high As the reputed American bald eagle Nor am I attached to the ground Like the pigeons on Tiananmen Square Plumed with the feathers of disappointment […]
The Tree and the Marble by Mike Yuan
My father planted a little Chinese poplar Close to the bank of the Yangtze River Where I buried deep under that tree A glass marble treasured by my childhood Long long afterward, I find the tree dying Though its seeds all blown away somewhere While my marble has really grown Into a magic tree in […]
The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje
The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje A girl whom I’ve not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On her wrist it sleeps, smooth and white, the size of a leech. I gave it to her brandishing a new Italian penknife. Look, I said turning, and blood […]
The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
I was waiting so long for that day to come, the day when i can make you mine.. Today i say it proud, say aloud to the whole world that i got ma girl, i made her mine… Hold my hand, i will walk with you thousand miles… Every second with me i swear, you […]
The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
I was waiting so long for that day to come, the day when i can make you mine.. Today i say it proud, say aloud to the whole world that i got ma girl, i made her mine… Hold my hand, i will walk with you thousand miles… Every second with me i swear, you […]
The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn
The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn In the elephant’s five-pound brain The whole world’s both table and shithouse Where he wanders seeking viandes, exchanging great farts For compliments. The rumble of his belly Is like the contortions of a crumpling planetary system. Long has he roved, his tongue longing to press the juices […]
The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas
The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas He lifted his sward in the shape of the tent liquid light weighing pressing forward the danse below numbed the sinews the gates of tranquility unlatched pause the dance below eternal repeated he lifted his sward again the lords above knew but not of the dance below End of […]
The Lonely Climber: A Seed Poem by Mike Yuan
you are tired, terribly tired tired of climbing alone upon an unknown mt quazilla your sons refused to join you feeling uncomfortable in your presence your wife laughed at your childish idea preferring not to share your eccentricity your fellow travelers are relaxing in cozy cabins enjoying a moment of borrowed privacy indifferent to your […]
The King by Michael Yuan
If I am the attacker, why am I attacked? If I am the chaser, why am I chased? If I am the hunter, why am I hunted? And If I am the Ruler, why am I ruled By Despair? End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s […]
The Island by Milton Acorn
The Island by Milton Acorn Since I’m Island-born home’s as precise as if a mumbly old carpenter, shoulder-straps crossed wrong, laid it out, refigured to the last three-eighths of shingle. Nowhere that plowcut worms heal themselves in red loam; spruces squat, skirts in sand or the stones of a river rattle its dark tunnel under […]
The Fraser River by Mike Yuan
unlike the far more famous nile surging ahead with sweat of old africa or the much mightier huanghe bursting with torrential tears of all china from glamorous glaciers deep in the rockies you are perfectly pure to breasfeed my vancouver the super sweetheart of north america (aug.30, 2004) End of the poem 15 random poems […]
The Epic Menageries by MB Moshe
The Epic Menageries by MB Moshe Clouds shape less pleasing, They’re darkness eclipses Heaven’s holes to mock the sun; And the sky gives feeling Like the world’s going to change For better or worse; Their values remain written, Encrypted in clouds too Baggy to keep rain; Choices thunder like hoofs That beat to sixteen counts […]
The Cup of Life by Mike Yuan
fragile never full this cup of life its taste changed completely with only one droplet of dreamwater staring at it square holding it tight against light not a single drop spilt but all the colors missed along my way here rich and brilliant (sept.2, 2004) End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
The Colored Balloon by Mike Yuan
full of youthful air brilliantly beautiful flying elegantly high but ready to burst open when suddenly stung by the needle of reality always sharply pointed 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 Quant.com […]
The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed And leave the yellow bark dust On your pillow. Your breasts and shoulders would reek You could never walk through markets without the profession of my fingers floating over you. The blind would stumble certain of whom they […]
State Fair Time by Michael S Wilson
A profusion of vehicles are maneuvering to park, Bringing food, cheer and surprises to the masses. Colorful stands, wagons and rides add that spark. Vendors struggle to get situated by dark, Hungry crowds are moving like molasses; A profusion of vehicles are maneuvering to park. Soon the crowds cheer, babies cry, dogs bark, They marvel […]
Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje
Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje Speaking to you this hour these days when I have lost the feather of poetry and the rains of separation surround us tock tock like Go tablets Everyone has learned to move carefully ‘Dancing’ ‘laughing’ ‘bad taste’ is a memory a tableau behind trees of law […]
Soulmating by Mike Yuan
too often above the summer night our eyes are like tiny stars burning bright whose light shines deep into each other’s heart but seperated by light years with neither a skybridge to cross nor a cosmic sting to connect in between End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: […]
Since That Summer by Mike Yuan
We jumped naked Into the fond pond Of our boyhoods Where we loved to Loll and wallow Like playing dogs Chasing frogs madly around From one lotus leaf to another Our pants beside the muddy path Blown far away In a hot and humid dream End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
Searching by Mike Yuan
all along all alone i have searched seeking and searching although never sure what i have been exactly looking for like my little son my ever truer self trying to piece together his jigsaw puzzle into a boat of boyhood sailing forward without a map in my mind i have assembled all the edges and […]
Scotland by MB Moshe
Scotland by MB Moshe I’ll remember days like this; When dew found the Greenest hills my eyes have kissed By a sun that Followed Glasgow west to Larges; I loitered long Cool in streets of cobbled stone; I’ll recall days like this when My backpack tore; And my canvas shoes would kick Dip sheep had […]
Ruined World by Michael Yuan
The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. Secretly watching as they Gossip about me. The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. Making up lies To try and be popular. The streets are crowded With people. Whispering behind my back. As I think and wonder Why do I live In […]
Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
no, no, a yard sale though i have been putting up here since the sun started to sing but really i am no salesperson by practice or profession not even for a single day yes, just a loonie for that neither because it is beginning right to rain or light to refrain nor because i […]
Promise Ya by Miraj Patel
I can’t promise to reach the skys, but i swear will bring heaven on earth for ya I can’t promise to swim the longest river, but i swear will never let the distance separate us I can’t promise to climb the highest mountains, but swear will never let ya fall I can’t stop the storm, but i […]
Picking Cherries by Mike Yuan
on a summer afternoon i take my little allen far to a field near the forest of some cheerful cherry trees where he could jump wildly on ever-naked soil finger the freshness of fruit and smell the scarlet of nature letting the wanton wind blow hard and straight through his limbs and senses long numbed […]
Outset by Mike Yuan
today, let me suspend all my senses in the warm and cozy glow of the morning huddling up my whole being just as I used to in my mother’s womb 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 […]
Obdurant men, the worst of the abstinant by Miles
Do not let the obdurate brutes their evils sanctify Deflect their cacophonous, forceful tamps Stand not to follow by For the folly of the human peccavi Pollute your being, like law do the tramps Do not let the obdurate villains villify A Wild Demon caught in its hexerai In its jaw your soul it clamps […]
Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje
Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman by Michael Ondaatje Since my wife was born she must have eaten the equivalent of two-thirds of the original garden of Eden. Not the dripping lush fruit or the meat in the ribs of animals but the green salad gardens of that place. The whole arena of green […]
Not even a child by Miles
Not even a child by Miles Time after time you asked if I was abandoned We both know it what you would have done if you were sadened with yes there was no exception no criminal sense nothing you could have done to plead your defense with me with you with my mother came almost […]
Nailing by Mike Yuan
each time i pare my nail i feel deeply grateful for its unselfish readiness to die in my stead sparing me the keen sense of the unbearable pain of growth out of those parts of me always younger more romantic and much more memorable spread randomly like unnoticeable seeds sown in the spring soil End […]
My Ink by Mike Yuan
is a blue cement holding the bricks of my days tightly together or the whole house i call home would become loose ready to collapse even without a pull or push End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – […]
Mother’s Death 1981 by Michael S Wilson
She died of that disease so long ago, Taken from us too young it is a fact; She is in a better spot we all know, Escaped to an eternal golden tract. Disease cares not for family concern, Nor plays favorites with any loved one; Good memories nor tender times discern, To pick and choose […]
Money, for a Decent Human Life without You by Mike Yuan
a beautiful beam bride a loyal but spoiled pet a moody morbid master a dull and dumb number you are all this and more a magic finger playing upon every nerve ending an endless thread woven into the fabric of every feeling you are all this, but above all with a green back, a bleeding […]
Migration of the Mind by Mike Yuan
some squatting among thorny bushes some scrawling along a burying tunnel some suffocating below the rusty waterline some trudging on a simmering desert much running in a dark rainforest much struggling in a stormy sea much prisoning in a sealed moving cage much threatening from fists cudgels, knives, bullets and more gnawing of my inwards […]
Mid-Autumn Moon by Mike Yuan
a rounded rainbow trout shining bright and lively until it is cast afar onto the bank of my dream 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 Quant.com – a search engine from France, […]
Meeting with Te Rauparaha by Michael O’Leary
Meeting with Te Rauparaha by Michael O’Leary The early evening finds me Emerging from the water At Paekakariki Beach After swimming long and deep The late summer colours Cover the sky and the hills I am alternately looking from Land to the seaward visage Towards and beyond Kapiti My eyes straight to the horizon: He […]
Matrimony by Mike Yuan
on a sunny rainy afternoon walking alone along a wornout path i overheard a newly old couple trying to talk into another honeymoon yes, marriage is a closed castle those outside long to get in while those inside eager to get out no, marriage is the tip of a fried chicken wing you get little […]
March on, Yes! by Miles
March on, Yes! by Miles March on the people yes we say On toward tomorrows day We Shan’t feel free, though what will be will be Da Dee Da doo da, Away We will march on, the way the people who are esprit That which we shan’t see our ingenous equivocal derivation Valiance be it […]
Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary
Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary The last train is about to leave The last train has left The cradle of Western Civilization is under siege The Euphrates burns, a river of flames The Euphrates burns, set alight by The twin towers of a double burning bush The new manifestation of the West The […]
Ma Wonders by Miraj Patel
If i was to say beautiful, i would just say you, Coz i have never seen someone as beautiful as you, Have known about the seven wonders around the world, but my only wonder is you Even they don’t seem so perfect, as nothing i can find is more perfect then you… If i was […]