Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez
Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez The onion is frost shut in and poor. Frost of your days and of my nights. Hunger and onion, black ice and frost large and round. My little boy was in hunger’s cradle. He was nursed on onion blood. But your blood is frosted with sugar, onion and […]
Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon by Milton Acorn
Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon by Milton Acorn Live with me on Earth among red berries and the bluebirds And leafy young twigs whispering Within such little spaces, between such floors of green, such figures in the clouds That two of us could fill our lives with delicate wanting: Where […]
Life of Paradoxes by Mike Yuan
this is a bewildered and bashful bat seeing with its ears flying without feathers biting, chewing, nd sucking instead of beaking or pecking dreaming on its back more than on its belly although a perfectly normal mammal he has been trying hard to make a bird’s living never wanting to deceive nor attention to receive […]
Languaculture by Mike Yuan
in the overly exploited mine of vocabulary he digs deep his ores hard and shiny at the heavily guarded garden of syntax he keeps pruning his trees dripping with green among the wildly running crowds of sounds he skillfully cowboys his colts cute and lively End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan
Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan when a tenant loses the key to his room in your house of heart you make him one more copy each short but rich poem is a tiny slice casually cut from the juicy apple of life End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by […]
(Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje
On the warm July river head back upside down river for a roof slowly paddling towards an estuary between trees there’s a dog learning to swim near me friends on shore my head dips back to the eyebrow I’m the prow on an ancient vessel, this afternoon I’m going down to Peru soul between my […]
In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan
In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan like an open cage like a free hotel my balcony has become a home to many wild city birds pigeons philosophizing in private seagulls stalking with arrogance crows beaking at unseen seeds sparrows quarreling non-stop on the branched-out railings behind the dusk dyed wall sometimes all alone […]
If You Ask Me by Miraj Patel
If you ask me,Where do i always dreamed about to be.?I’d say,Right next to you,Holding your hands right beside you,Just wanna stay in your arms, with you,ohh baby i just wanna be with you, wanna be with you… If you ask me,How long do i wish to stay.?I’d say,Maybe forever is not enough,Even when the […]
If I Got You by Miraj Patel
I know i have been feeling soo low, Little lost, forgot the way home… But how could i forget that i’m never alone, How could i forget that you always there to catch me when i fall, How could i forget that you always there to hold me alright long, There have never been someone […]
I Wish This Lovely Time Never Ends by Miraj Patel
I cant forget the day we started, I remember when we became friends. Yes, it was a sunday, it dated.. Holding hand together we have walked million miles, I could find nothing better than your sweetest smile.. The days we had, the time we shared, I still can remember the moments we shared.. Not today, […]
I sink as I sail magnificently by Michael Nikoletseas
I sink as I sail magnificently by Michael Nikoletseas I sink as I sail magnificently The sky below me black cribriform supine chest plates of Chalkis copper float by hugging Macedonian youths in Eurotas’ reeds I sink as I sail magnificently End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: […]
I Shout Love by Milton Acorn
I Shout Love by Milton Acorn I shout love in a blizzard’s scarf of curling cold, for my heart’s a furred sharp-toothed thing that rushes out whimpering when pain cries the sign writ on it. I shout love into your pain when skies crack and fall like slivers of mirrors, and rounded fingers, blued as […]
I know our friendship wil never end by Miraj Patel
I remember the day we met and we became friends, ya maybe from then, came so close but i never knew from when.. From our childhood we always have been together, we have memories which no one else could ever gather.. I never know will this tym come to us ever, but this memories will […]
I Just Wanna Make You Mine Girl by Miraj Patel
Saw you from the distance, the way you blinked your eyes, I can’t stop myself from coming closer, and to have you by ma side, Now standing to your right watching you smile girl, Looking at the world’s best creation, now i can’t wait to call you mine girl… I can wait no more to […]
I Just Wanna Be Your Number One by Miraj Patel
Never saw a girl someone as beautiful as you, Baby you stole ma heart, and now it’s all own you, I really found one in a billion you, Oh baby, there can never be another you, Nothing can make me feel the way everytime i’m besides you, Baby there can never be another you… I […]
I Have A Friend I Can Proudly Say by Miraj Patel
I have a friend, I can proudly say, Who’s just amazing her own way… Words are less to describe you the best, You are like an angel, when you be around i care for nothing rest… I always wondered how this sweetest thing came 2 me, Nothing in this world can better could be… May […]
I Just Wanna Be Your Valentine by Miraj Patel
I just wanna be your valentine, just wanna be your valentine, Come with where just you and i, And its the feeling now i just can’t hide… Girl you the only one which not others could, You the only one, i just wanna be your valentine…. Till the day drops down i will be your […]
I Can Feel The Same by Miraj Patel
Baby never hide anything from me, you know i can feel your pain, Maybe little far from you, but still i can feel the same… Baby never hide your worries from me, i can feel the absence of your smile, Just tell me if you need me, atleast i can be the reason to make […]
Househunting by Mike Yuan
since i eloped with my little dream from a straw-roofed farmhouse reed fenced in a chinese village i have traveled far and wide moving from city to city sheltering my yellowish soul in an asphyxiating basement or a dramatically drab apartment or a democratic duplex always in a rented room until i am now privileged […]
Hiking by Mike Yuan
between two tall skeletons of birches i walk right into the heart of mid-autumn with the city gate as my starting point but without any predetermined destination along a less frequently trodden trail i keep traveling behind my own soul each time I climb onto a little ridge i see another higher up just ahead […]
Growth: for Allen Qing Yuan by Mike Yuan
soon after his fifth birthday my little allen solemnly promised to purchase someday a huge house for mom a big benz for dad a mighty motorcycle for bro and a big pail of paint for grandpa two birthday cakes before he often immitated playing “wild wild west” with a broken broom as his electric guitar […]
Global Warning by Mike Yuan
it is not so much carbon doxide from metal pipes as more and more fret, frenzy and friction that burst out into the sky making the whole world dangerously warmer (sept.19, 2004) End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com […]
Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory
Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory Four Corners There is a large man with a sled, splintered and wooden beneath its red paint’s fading, selling roses to the blind. Women passing in babushkas carry babka, paper bags, and milk. There is the rust of pennies mixing with the scent of lemon candles, flames which must […]
Forever Ya by Miraj Patel
You are my heart, you are my life, Having you to my side you make me feel alive… Sometime in my life, when the day seems darker, You come to me and save my heart from getting colder… Forever i be and do like i told ya, Now and ever be the same coz gul […]
Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas
Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas Far pitched tents I met you again as on the first time stench of blood and war cries in far pitched tents End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry by subject Some external links: The Bat’s Own Poetry Cave Talking Writing Monster. Duckduckgo.com – […]
Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory
Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory Entering the Body after Gunter von Hagen’s Body Worlds All I could think of at first was cooking. Of that skinned rabbit in my freezer, fur torn, gaze jammed between a package of phyllo and a carton of ice cream. Of all that succulent meat dripping from its […]
Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje
Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje Catch, my Uncle Jack said and oh I caught this huge apple red as Mrs Kelly’s bum. It’s red as Mrs Kelly’s bum, I said and Daddy roared and swung me on his stomach with a heave. Then I hid the apple in my room till it shrunk like a face […]
East Idioms (1): A Fable by Mike Yuan
once there stood still a tremendous oak tree trying to enjoy dreaming her own dream in her humble but hilarious way suddenly a wild west wind starting to blow her back bent like a madly mating moose never letting his sexual desire rest unable to stand straight up she shrugs off her broken branches End […]
Don’t Hang Up The Phone by Miraj Patel
I miss those day when you called me late at night, I know you sleepy but you say its alright, We talk from night to morn, Still don’t wish to hang up the phone, You say baby i wanna talk some more, Even if nothing else to say, Just wanna stay awake, Don’t wanna take […]
Christmas Dance of the Hours by Michael T. Bee
Dust of forgotten dreams in my eyes – I rise with coughs and creaksand cold morning on my legs. The dark house rumbles with my father bear tread to the kitchenand I loose a hundred screams of a Colombian morning fromtheblack-howlers, and tamarins in the grinder. I muffle their din with a dishtowel but a […]
Change of Climate by Michael S Wilson
You praise the glories of those green hills, Oaks and daisies swaying in the breezes; Farmhouses and homesteads and stone mills, Rivers and lakes and ponds with fish leaping. You are entitled to your opinions, although they seem wrong, For I choose to enjoy more wide-open pristine vistas; Asteroids and new worlds, entire star systems […]
Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan
Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan unlike the proud Prometheus you stole from an unknown paradise the white seeds of pure peace sowing them tender and graceful with softly solid stillness in a dry and dreaming land are you blessings bountiful from high above or just muted wishes deep in our hearts? (aug. 18, 2004) End […]
CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN
CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN Caesar’s Last Breath —Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) On the Ides of March, great Caesar stabbed to death by friends, expelled his final breath in exclamation, an accusation I’m forced to share by Fermi’s calculation each time I respire in joy or despair an atom of the cry my Mother gave […]
Birthday Love Song by Miraj Patel
You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, With a soul so pure and heart so clean, For me it’s just the most beautiful you, Baby there can never be another you, Words can’t describe how beautiful you are to me, You are ma one in a billion, You are ma 7 wonders, […]
Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
Before it is time, even the night will not come although the sleepy, peeping birds are sometimes deceived by dusk’s lurking shadows. Even the day will not come before it is time, but the dew will water its path and wait patiently on leaves. . And, even if we may blow candles every year, death […]
Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight I yell ok. Finish something I’m doing, then something else, walk slowly round the corner to my son’s room. He is standing arms outstretched waiting for a bearhug. Grinning. Why do I give my emotion an animal’s name, give it that dark squeeze […]
Bang-Bang by Mikey D Wentworth
Bang bang Banging at the door In the dead of night The dark illuminates your fright As I’m pulled from your bed Dragged across the floor. Bang bang Banging inside your head Festering wounds inflicted by structural violence But the pain illuminates your silence As you escape into ignorance Safe in the sewer with […]
Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman
Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman Goodbye America of the blue overalls and steel-toed boots, goodbye, goodbye. The headline in The Sun said it all today in type as tall as the re-election of a president: General Motors Closes Its Broening Highway Plant. Don’t you remember when they said what was good for GM […]
Awakening by mike yuan
Awakening by mike yuan as a stony statue sitting still under a tremendous tree my inner self fallen into a deep doze while i travel around all the time trying to find the right path through the thorny bushes leading to the hill top a large flock of nameless birds held in their unsinging mouths […]
At the Kitslano Beach by Mike Yuan
i spot and pick up a curious clam whose flimsy lips fairly open and her tongue keeps reaching out as if to reveal the saltiness of seawater the sad face of sand and anecdotes about certain fishes whose narration i really do not understand although my younger son assures me he can End of the […]