When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly by Oliver Goldsmith
When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly by Oliver Goldsmith When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, […]
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, where every sport could please, How often have I loitered […]
Picture by Nijole Miliauskaite
the fragment of dream in my heart is a shard of red glass through which we could watch the clouds a tall transparent tree a ladder leaned against a fence a gentle and solemn evening sky the house is dark dark your window is dark a red ball in the faded grass a crumbling wall […]
Palms and Hearts by Olawuyi Mutiu
BBC Blows blasted cases By egotists – termed leaders; Censoring for the fools… Date: the only honey that plant grooms in tick desert with no spoiling date. Word Used to create the orb; And things within and without; And for steering beings… My Reading Room: Paints my page with reed; Tames my palm to speak […]
Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
it was as though you were standing before a fence and beyond the curved slats, woven with blossoms and leaves, over there, in the orchard, a group of children played barefoot, ragged, grubby your heart shudders, half-wild: those children racing around, that orchard, longed for you discover suddenly, within yourself, how badly you’d play forgetting […]
Only in my dreams by Nina Gabriel
Only in my dreams by Nina Gabriel It used to be only in my dreams, That I would become a butterfly, And fly to the places that, I could not visit walking on this Earth, But, now it all became a reality, Since I truly transformes myself into a Butterfly, Because the time was and […]
On Fair Compassion by Nithin Purple
If Ruth,a king like guest in we well move, In fact do guide we,this green wide globe, This comrade godly he,and tell him prove A stranger he,who captures bleak and doom His arms do comfort depress and regrets If truth is true,and mercy heart each bloom Dear soul,you golden leaf from heaven’s art, And pour […]
On An Insight On Grecian Spring by Nithin Purple
Blossomed Spring from enchanted year, Now may long lipped magic weave, when Fair Persephone’s love, unwrap As thus azur’d flowers’s wide appear. O’ wake with the darling season! where green bosomed earth will pine, For butterfly wings and cuckoo’s flap, And tame their consort’s to the boon. West wind adrift from Dorian dells, And bliss […]
On An Arctic Winter by Nithin Purple
Cynthia then holiness spread in arctic dews, From lately month that it pinion’d the living world, There did swell the mild and greenish meadows, Winter anew with frozen gold of treasury wild. Moonlit beam mixed with atmospheres frigid cry, Earthy sister,wind release’d and then lightly roam; Mirth awakes in foliages and swing its glory, Enclasp […]
On A World Of Imaginary & Freedom Dwell by Nithin Purple
When it forms the soul of purest liberty, Which an aid that makes all my broad sense Vivid and meet knowledge’s growing beauty Mindful state where solemn music attunes. From Tangled psyche playful fancies rise, Worth as muse: that rolls in feeling curls, From domain world that unseen memory gaze And seeks my visions of […]
The Old Revolutionary’s Room by Nijole Miliauskaite
o the poverty of holidays, the sadness of holidays the shining windows in the emptying street, wet flags, torn and rent by the wind, rustling leaves beneath our feet she opens the door: welcome it just happens to be her birthday she leads us down a long corridor into distant perspectives into the past – […]
Ode of Welcome by Oliver St. John Gogarty
The Gallant Irish yeoman Home from the war has come Each victory gained o’er foeman Why should our bards be dumb. How shall we sing their praises Our glory in their deeds Renowned their worth amazes Empire their prowess needs. So to Old Ireland’s hearts and homes We welcome now our own brave boys In […]
O mother, O Merry by Nikunj Sharma
O mother, O Merry.. take me along, make me pure soul, And drop me back on earth, to roam and ferry, Raise your hand for blessing; let the divine ray flashing, Make me angel of peace, gim’me solace to carry, I wanna follow the Jesus; I wanna be his fetus, Lock me up in stars, […]
My Invisible Valentine by Nin Andrews
Facts off CNN, February 14 84% of Americans say they’re in love this morning. 16% say they’re not. No undecideds, unlike every other poll. People are evenly divided over whether Valentine’s Day matters, though one reporter said she felt sorry for all those who have nobody to be their valentine. Even if it’s true that […]
My first seen by Osman cisse Hanif
A jeering sun once rose And all she knew Flower of her dream never grew But in home of her own was a growing rose That brought her smile and joy with hope Eighth of months third day of week Stress of delivery so she was weak After I was born, like hen and her […]
My Government Frustrates Me by Olaniyi Beloved Abimbola
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems National anthem is taught from infant Respect to my country very important Government as a term is confusing With ne’er-do-well persons plunging My Government frustrates me As I grew up still in my nation Horrors of the civil war […]
Mother’s Love by Nin Andrews
On the island where I grew up, the cooks were the most revered members of society, admired alongside the priests, the painters, the architects of the governor’s mansion. Cooking, it was said, was a rare form of magic, transmitted from angels to women on earth. That is why my mother, a chef in her own […]
Living with Cancer by Nin Andrews
Who says there is no healing? Just the other morning my cousin showed me her saline breasts. In a matter of weeks the nipples will be tattooed on. Size double C, she smirks. Just like my adolescent dream. So it doesn’t hurt when the body screams, she becomes a body without a mind, a mind […]
Living in my Bliss by Nina Gabriel
Living in my Bliss by Nina Gabriel Under the shadows of Love Which I found in sadness and sorrow of the past, I found my Jewel in the Crown of Beauty, And in the light of bright stars of passionate Venus And ever- strong Mars Harmony was created, The harmony of my true essence was […]
Life and Love by Nithin Purple
O’ life sleeps, a while. All in passion’s silver meadow; Love sleeps in a fame; A truly penned compassion! Then you mute as your name, If love wake with illusion. 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 […]
Let’s pray the divine by Nikunj Sharma
“As New Year begins to shower and December decline, Chill breeze gives me shiver in bright sun shine, It’s a season of flavor……feel the fresh savor ……..and let’s pray the Divine, Now close Your Eyes, just think of Christ, ….and let’s pray the Divine, I’m seeking your blessing, almighty heel me solacing, Santa brings in […]
Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni I always like summer Best you can eat fresh corn From daddy’s garden And okra And greens And cabbage And lots of Barbeque And buttermilk And homemade ice-cream At the church picnic And listen to Gospel music Outside At the church Homecoming And go to the mountains with Your grandmother […]
Journey Of Life by Nikhil Srinivas
A question is not an answer To another question An answer is not the end To any question … Certain questions Have inbuilt answers And many answers will lead To many a new question- In the journey of life We search for the answers In questions And segregate questions From the answers And cross the […]
Jacaranda by Norma Martiri
Jacaranda by Norma Martiri September blooms of purple hues, adorn the city street. And in bright splendour praises Spring, where limbs and feathers meet. Amid soft purple hues I lay, to rest my weary head. In fantasies drifting away, Upon a sprinkled spread. Copyright ©: 2011 End of the poem 15 random poems Poetry […]
Inter-religion Wedding by Nisha Gopalakrishnan
As the jingle bells and bronze bells unite to tinkle.. As the candle light and lamp light unite to glimmer.. As the spruce leaves and basil leaves unite to rustle.. My Vedic soul and your biblical soul will unite as one.. To prove that religion is nothing before our eternal LOVE.. End of the poem […]
If I Were a Tree by Norma Martiri
If I Were a Tree by Norma Martiri What would I do if I were a tree? I’d regard life in the surrounds. Mankind would live within nature’s law, Respecting the natural compounds. What would I do if I were a tree? Regenerate earth’s atmospheres. Mankind would inhale nature’s fresh breath, Across the world’s vast […]
I was born with a cry by Nur Al-Alam
I was born with a cry by Nur Al-Alam O my Beloved! I was born with a cry. Didn’t know why? Perhaps, for separation from heaven above, Or maybe, for safety, protection and love. But before knowing where I was landed, What was I signed-up for, Even before a tear was dropped, Blessed was I, […]
How…? by Nizar Sartawi
How did you droop like a captain horrified by a storm when in your horizons flocks of white clouds passed tickling the eyelids of the sun, and close to your vacant eyes ecstatic daffodil tresses went swaying in rapture at the edges of the stream sipping wine from the golden horizon and pouring drunken ghosts […]
From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite
that place, where one spring we saw a grass snake – greenish gold where a forest stream curled around a meadow, laughing; fallen trees lay rotting, not touched by anyone so warm and green that place, where for the first time, I saw a grass snake – his gold crown all that is gone now […]
Heat Wave by Norma Martiri
Heat Wave by Norma Martiri Outstretched limbs shelter us as we slowly sip iced tea. Sweaty glasses compete against sweaty bodies. Mango juice drips down our arms as the familiar summer flavour bursts in our mouths. The children squeal with cool delight playing endless games in the spouting sprinkler. The poor old dog sits in […]
For Birds by Nithin Purple
They freedom lovers, breeze waft those mighty wings, Swiftly moving aloft in a “pulsar ‘pace!, That view enraptured me, and my enchanted feelings, How fortunate are they in gravitational ace, And I your eager watcher, or felt a birder be, They black, white and of brilliant gray color mixed, What brain holds them, what imagination […]
Flying Wishes by Osman cisse Hanif
If life is just a mile Forever if I can dial Then I will for an endless one Grief pain woe are none Upon an untold dream Heaven’s gate opened with beam Its sweet light could wake from sleep Dark-dead eyes in deep weep If life is a sea of snow Swiftly if I could […]
Femme Fatale by Nijole Miliauskaite
how simply this river flows winding its way through the meadows how simply this river flows holding a full embrace of wheat before us how simply it carries our obedient and trusting bodies *** like that girl asleep in a red shell rocked by the waves in the moonlight you sleep peacefully in his arms […]
Eye By Eye by Nijole Miliauskaite
now broad stitches, now fine ones – eye by eye, I’ll be leaning over linen all winter long embroidering this table cloth but during the night you, only you, leave magic blossoms and branches on the windowsill which, even as a child I could not get enough of after the sun had set and we […]
Evening by Olivia Lewis
The sun, a sheer glowing ball, Falls in a rush of mahogany light Smokey and palpable Through the evening night The air is dense and downy soft The moon a thin reed flute Whose solitary tune hearkens to the Wavering, ethereal keening Of wind among the creaking pines The bone-white moon shines eerily And the […]
E-waste by Nisha Gopalakrishnan
When I was new, you knew me more, You used me much, you explored all my features, you were proud of using me, you boasted about me to your friends, And at some point of time… I became outdated for you, you lost interest in me, You found someone new and disposed me as such… […]
Dreamtime by Olivia Lewis
Dreamtime Surrounded by black water, the wave has carried me away Suddenly I smell the familiar scent of mango trees I hear the night calling its familiar tune of crickets Home, take me home. But I am sitting, wafting like a piece of driftwood, in the great, unending, black sea “Sleep, my child, sleep” whispers […]
Death Divine by Nithin Purple
Since my psyche has languished and unwilling rhythm; The cryptic confession that my brain do bear.you gaze in your suborn power, by your mate-less vision.To me your alarm is higher; your doubtless mild mission! When you lead my soul in higher and do i fade through those tress, With the murmuring leaves of guest less pleasure, deep dwelt of […]
Dead Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
dead orchard, dried plum trees and the frozen apple, dead trunks, skewed, twisted branches, knotted fingers, in the cold gray heavens with a wooden face between hesitating clouds beneath my feet dry grass crunches, last year’s, the smell of dust permeates the air, piercing, sharp, sand in my mouth, between my teeth, so brittle, so […]
CloSe To My Heart by Nishant Deherkar
On dis special day i make a vow, A vow not to forget wat made my lyf so special; Those naughty laughs, those innocent tears, Those walks, those pranks, those talks, Those fun tuition times, that mishcief in skul corridors, That sharing n stealing tiffins, that sleepin in science lectures, Those football matches, those silly […]