Anthem
Before being turned to ashes by the wrath of the thunderbolt, he had forced the steer of the tempest to kneel before his might. To test the faith of old he had worn out his teeth on the locks of ancient gates. On the most out-of-the way paths he struggled, an unexpected passer-by whose […]
All In A Word
T for time to be together, turkey,talk and tangy weather H for harvest stored away, home and hearth and holiday A for Autumn’s frosty art, and abundance in the heart N for neighbors and November, nice things, new things to remember K for kitchen, kettle’s croon, kith and kin expected soon S for sizzles, sights […]
A Teenage Pregnancy
by Agustin Antonio Why should my fun have to end? I thought that this was just the beginning. I see my friends go out to have fun. And all I can do is watch as they drive by. As they set forth to discover their youth, I’m well on my way towards […]
A Painting Morning
by Ahmad Reza Rahimi A voice in the morning calling from far away a muezzin and the Night drawing all its weapons to the hoard the sun painting the east in red and I sleeping on my bed! Poetry Monster – Home A few random poems: […]
A Child Of War
by Afzal Moolla as she lies bleeding the girl who skipped and hopped to school all of nine and a half years old with ribbons in her hair and a laugh that was her father’s pride as she lies bleeding the warm bullet lodged in her […]
Ars Poetica
A poem by Aeschylus (c. 525 – c. 456 Before Christ ) by Ainne Frances dela Cruz No, the poet does not live in a beautiful world, a perfect world, does not always see the bright side Nay, too often it is the dark she sees, Not rainbows and stars, […]
Facebook A Poem about Facebook by Fledermaus Facebook is neither a book nor a face Facebook is type of a disease A plague of sorts, and a disgrace A vast cesspool of filth and sleaze Facebook is a defeat of human spirit Facebook deprives you of your face Of soul, of dignity, of feelings […]
The Nuclear Ghost Towns
The Nuclear Ghost Towns by Adeola Ikuomola The moon is a spark on decency Swashed in colourful eloquence With live pollen, petal and sepal Mourning with a weeping dawn The moon is a spark on greenery Like virgin rains on the rainbows Baking emeralds for embryology To cleanse the stain […]
The Conditional
Say tomorrow doesn’t come. Say the moon becomes an icy pit. Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified. Say the sun’s a foul black tire fire. Say the owl’s eyes are pinpricks. Say the raccoon’s a hot tar stain. Say the shirt’s plastic ditch-litter. Say the kitchen’s a cow’s corpse. Say we never get to see […]
The Ugly Little Bird
The Ugly Little Bird by Admiral Mahic Someone has pulled me out of the grass Because I had fallen From a black branch. O sweet! O wild! The cats are evil here! O am an ugly little bird – with my soft beak I keep pecking at the running […]
Not A Star
Not a Star by Adonis Neither a star, nor a prophet’s inspiration, nor a face praying to the moon, is Mihyar. Here he comes like a pagan spear, invading the land of letters, bleeding and raising to the sun his bleeding. Here he is, wearing the nakedness of stone […]
Mountain Wellhead
Mountain Wellhead by Admiral Mahic This is where God breathes! Here is the mountain wellhead that cannot believe our bodies are drenched in darkness. Drops of water burning bright like verses from holy books. Here my heart smiles at Goethe’s heart, like a sun at a sun when they meet in […]
Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
Lightning in the Dark Night Skies by Adeola Ikuomola The blue blooded, blue babies of the skies The chief commanders of the blue moons Blue boxing the dark cloud to blue berries From the blue on blue to deep blue stages The calls of the void on the throne for […]
In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
In The Bus That is Frantically Rushing from Cairo to Port Said by Admiral Mahic I could have gotten married in Egypt With one sun ray, That is masterfully openinig gates of fields in front of the bus that is frantically rushing from Cairo to Port Said … Beside me, the […]
Immoral Laboratories
Immoral Laboratories by Adeola Ikuomola Here are columns of fleeing masquerades The old members of immoral laboratories Upon atomic mushrooms’ sulphuric acids Darkness blackens the dazzling complexes Like perplexing unforeseen circumstances In viral antisocial and immoral behemoths Keeping procreation in immoral drainages Like colossal bumps on maritime advances […]
Hope
Hope by Adebanjo Olamilekan Olamide I don’t know what other mortals may choose but give me hope or throw me into the torrents of hell. Where all concepts in this allegorical world fail Hope stays alive waiting for a call to pick up If hopes weren’t free, rich men won’t […]
Hope And Riders
Hope and Riders by Adebanjo Olamilekan Olamide I don’t know what other mortals may choose but give me hope or throw me into the torrents of hell. Where all concepts in this allegorical world fail Hope stays alive waiting for a call to pick up If hopes weren’t free, rich […]
Do I
Do I by Adetokunbo Hussain Do I disappoint you? Perhaps because of my words or maybe it’s the lack of it? Do I disappoint you? By what I did or do? or perhaps what I didn’t? Am I the one you want me to be? Am I your type […]
Communal War
Communal War by Adeola Ikuomola Hellish! Complicated Bitter and vitriolic Contempt and anger! The slippery words Beaded with bleeding gums In the chalets of the bloodiest lips Bear hostilities and military campaigns. Darkness stands Mourning the demise Of the genetically terminal light On chariots of thunders to obscurity! […]
Blank Dreams
Blank Dreams by Adebanjo Olamilekan Olamide To terminate words is that all must dream, the many by nighttime. Nights that are turning points ushering us into dreams The history of ourselves tells us of an image of the immediate future meant to rip our hearts as what we fear in […]
Before
No shoes and a glossy red helmet, I rode on the back of my dad’s Harley at seven years old. Before the divorce. Before the new apartment. Before the new marriage. Before the apple tree. Before the ceramics in the garbage. Before the dog’s chain. Before the koi were all eaten by the crane. Before […]
Again
sunrise this painted lady i cannot take my eyes off & by noon i am drunk on her perfume clutching this wild bouquet between my teeth stumbling up the aisle of spring as if this all wasn’t new not at all concerned with my reputation California’s Lost Coast […]
A Voice
A voice by Adonis Mihyar is a face betrayed by its lovers. Mihyar is bells without chinning Mihyar is inscribed upon the faces, a song which visits us secretly on white, exiled roads. Mihyar is bells of wanderers in this Galilean land. Songs of Mihyar the […]
A Toast To Nations
A Toast To Nations by Admiral Mahic Nations and nationalities, you are not chocolate, you are the sweetest Jam cooked from bitter labour! You are the original egg, the supreme cause of war and peace! You are the homeland of the rising sun and moon. You are the cameras recording from […]
Wisdom in Love by Lutfi Abdallah a.k.a Laso
It hurts to love someone and not to be loved in return but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel. Maybe God wants us to meet few wrong people before meeting the right ones, so that when we finally meet the […]
Why I Do Not Miss You! by Praveen Parasar
Me without you Like a Body Without soul, Like a Flower Without scent, Like a Sea Without water, Like a Sky Without stars, Like a tree Without leaves, (Why) I Do Not Miss You! Me without you Like a Body Without soul, Like a Flower Without scent, Like a Sea Without water, Like a Sky […]
Weaving waves by Shailendra Singh
Bewildered, baffled, bleeding heart, Weave waves of a ubiquitous part, Whispering with wind what others say, I and she care scarce for this hay. I and she and she and I, Speak for hours but you deny, There she stood with exorbitant charm, Filliping a feeling feathery and warm. In a virtual wonderful world of […]
Trademark by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems She wants a poem I offer passion to make her heart beat She blows a kiss I send flowers to make her life more beautiful She sends a smile I transport watts of funk to make her life joyful […]
Time Well-Served by Luis Estable
I`ve gone to heaven now. The mine that you`d allow. It did enter your mouth, And there it happy died. 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 […]
This I Beg To Have by Luis Estable
Dance with me in silence, Moves made on the bed. Make it slower faster, See me lose my head. 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, […]
The True Lover by A. E. Housman
The lad came to the door at night, When lovers crown their vows, And whistled soft and out of sight In shadow of the boughs. “I shall not vex you with my face Henceforth, my love, for aye; So take me in your arms a space Before the cast is grey. “When I from hence […]
The Song of My Heart by Olawuyi Mutiu
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems I’m lonely here and still alone; I only hear my heart on phone. I tried to sing the Cupid’s song And tried to play the Psyche’s gong; but all I feel is danceless heart for fate has kept the […]
Sweetheart by M. T. Metutera
Sweetheart, you are my hope. My heart clutches your name and shall keep it eternally honey. You are one I adore. I will always cherish your warmhearted epitome darling. With you, I am willing to share the philia in felicity and pathos my dear. You are sweet in action from beginning till end. You have […]
Sweet Fire by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems I have soaked my self in fuel and drenched my feelings in coal. My lips are on fire for you, come Mr. Fire Fighter and quench my fire.Youu have to go beyond my toungue because the fire is spreading […]
Summer by Luther Seahand
Summer by Luther Seahand This glorious time of year grace is in bloom, divine supple spindles gleam by golden beam waltz, waltz June fairies from dandelion to lofty pine. Off on a stroll above meadows scented wisps, a tryst, oh my sandalwood, sweet fair mulberry treat swoon, swoon ethereal swans into the mild, evening light, […]
Sonnet # 9 by Luis A. Estable
Can I conpare with you, The Mighty One? No! Not even in dreams I have that luck! I am a spark; you are no doubt the sun; I have to say when sadly roses I pluck. And in my mind I surely search with care And find these words ashamed for lack of more: Who […]
Sonnet # 8 by Luis A. Estable
I know I love my race, and why no so? But for outside beauty I wish the rose. If people vex me, ” Your heart needs to grow!” I say, “God gave the rose secure-fixed pose.” But of my race, there`s something I`d ne`er change For flowers fair, or pearls, or pure gold: Of his […]
Sonnet # 7 by Luis A. Estable
Forgive my thoughts on you transporting love. I understand you are only my friend. I will ask God, or paradise above To bring these crazy feelings to an end. I saw in you, dear Grogg, a flower tall Due to your mind and so gentle heart, And in my dreams your name, Sweet, I did […]
Sonnet # 6 by Luis A. Estable
Behold the human race! What wonder thing! My tears in sadness wet, in joy they`re bright. We have the fancy things of a queen, king, And female voices for the ear jut right. And when of age our faces turn to old, What animal compares with such a look? We have the patience to work […]
Sonnet # 4 by Luis A. Estable
Today I`m talkng to above the sky For here on earth the answer I don`t find, And maybe I can get a good reply From that called God thought to be good and kind, But if nothing does come but emptiness, And fear of never knowing make me cry, I will be brave and calmly […]