If It Were Beginning by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
If it were a beginning I couldn’t imagine anything more beautiful; But it came to be my illusion, And no one was more ashamed than me. The approach was delicate with steps silent. But the withdrawal happened to be so delicate – That left me perplexed, whether ‘it’ was Really an approach! And to my […]
Hypatia by Stanley Wilkin
They attacked her in mid exploration Cutting away her golden thoughts As they cut away her flesh, destroying A mind that they couldn’t destroy in Debate, a sparkling old woman Whose thoughts were spun from steel. The screaming mob desecrated her tiny form Dragging it into the dust, through the rubbish And shit. Tearing off […]
Homosexuality by Spencer Reece
After my mother and father fight, my father takes my hand and we walk down to the Mississippi where he smokes Camel cigarettes. He flicks his ashes away from me. He rarely says my name. All day on TV, I watch monks in Saigon douse themselves in gasoline and light their saffron robes on fire. […]
Highway to Happiness by Stacey Chillemi
Highway to Happiness Dogs bring happiness into your home, Nothing on this planet can replace the special moments you create with your dog. They bring memories to cherish, These memories may be a part of the past However, in my head they’ll always last, I can share these memories with the world And let the […]
High school crush……lonesome awaits by Stephen Allen
Trap in dawn, Night honking its horn. Walking on the north street I stare at my high school crush, I wonder if she knows how much She makes me blush. Coldness creeping underneath my sleeve, If she should say hi my heart would leap. My glances touching her skin like the coldness of the night, […]
God’s Abdication by Snowdon King
God’s Abdication by Snowdon King a whole bureaucracy up to your skies, God… …the waiting lines are long we are obediently waiting for our turn birth, marriage, death certificates the every night prayer the sign of the cross before every meal, the Sunday mass the confession, may our terrible sins be forgiven there were times […]
Family by Stacey Chillemi
FAMILY BOND: Beauty – Obligation – Necessary – Devoted I am so fond when I see people bond Family bonding time is time the family spends, Meaningfully time spent People, Dogs, Cats, Birds And all Special times that create strong ties And loads of love That lies deep within our hearts And remains forever in […]
Everything He Did, He Did In Jest by stanley wilkin
In this contorted frame, badger-like scurrying, Scrabbling for prey, in the midst of fratricidal disputes- The dead lingering like ruptured sores- The dead dripping like candy from Christmas trees, Our lives meandering, our thoughts remain. In this dry season drunken men walk like dragons Scales roaring with white flame: Fangs like industrial weapons Formed into […]
Entropy by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
A nature full of savageness, A gambling world in force The Creation is a chaos- Mare Cacophonous discourse. I value myself the most; Not that, I’m proud. But there are so many ‘I’s Amorphous in the Crowd. Your pain is yours Only you are there to feel Your cry for life Hardly makes a deal. […]
Disconnect by Snowdon King
Disconnect by Snowdon King and if the server crashed would I still be a poet? and if the Internet crashed suddenly in the whole wide world who’s going to ever hear of me? I would like a law to forbid poetry in public to have to go in specially designed places with a pencil and […]
Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer
Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer Every hour, I go insane,Diving into the greatest pain, Only they can understand,Giving me their helping hands, Normal people use their brooms,Sweeping us into lonely rooms, Not until they lick our blood, Will they see our filthy mud, Which runs through our rotten brains, Forever and ever, we are insane. ————— […]
By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos o universo pára ao entardecer maritacas se refugiam em qualquer lugar os cães adormecem enroscados à cauda a dormideira se prepara para a segunda-feira o universo pára ao entardecer jovens ansiando pelo novo sol velhos cabeceando seu crepúsculo padres orando por suas almas o universo […]
By Garpal Stream by Stanley Wilkin
By Garpal stream the young men came Decades before the flood On Garpal field they started the game Quenching the grass with blood. Down by the hill, near the copse, they lie, The first to score was the first to die. Every year the young men came Where the roses and dandelions bud Eager to […]
Buddha’s Laugh by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
Buddha’s Laugh by Sonya Ki Tomlinson Pearl on the tip of my nose drops into the Ocean of Milk flooding my heart I laugh to myself as if awakening suddenly from a lucid dream for so long I have wrestled with an angel danced, courted and eloped with a figment of my imagination not realizing […]
Beautiful Moroccan by Stanley Wilkin
Dressed in black, dark eyes amused She strolls into a room With the specialised tread Of a femme fatale, Tossing her streaming hair in arrogant joy. Her perfect body Contains the calm and unexpected force Of the sea, shifting in a moment between Reason and fury. She graces the men with sure-footed Arabic, Stark, sibilant, […]
Ambrosia by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
Ambrosia by Sonya Ki Tomlinson I covered your wound with a piece of my heart what will it take to stop the bleeding here is my love don’t be afraid when our lips meet radiant petals burst open Drink in the Light of the sun Copyright ©: 2013 ————— The End And that’s the End […]
Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
ALTERNATE DESTINATION The Sky is grey in shame. Because celluloid steals it’s Blue To capture games of worms – Reverse evolution from Human to Protozoa. Venus’s gradually losing her shine Due to filthy eject Masculine. The Earth suffers infection all over her Overcrowded body to pollute the Galaxy. Humanity is in desperate search for an […]
Adaptation by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
Adaptation As long as conscience is not deaf Pains cannot go in silent exile. Frustrations are so shameless Not ready to hide behind a smile. Who am I to register protest? Neither a celeb nor a declared activist- Speechless though having words Boiling in furry, stinging inside to bleed. Better I read a news paper […]
A Veterans Memories Breeze By In the Wind by Stacey Chillemi
As the breeze sets in And the sun sets down on me I comfortably sit on a cliff with my dog Biff Watching the waves of the ocean Dance onto the ocean shore As I sit with my arm around my best buddy Biff Pondering about the good old days Oh, how I remember the […]
A Man, They Made a God by Walid Saba
He danced with harlots He drank with thieves He ate with beggars He slept with killers He conversed with the humble They believed … He defied the high priests He shunned the kings He ridiculed the powerful He snubbed the rich They killed him! And erected a church … In His name Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
A Kind of Life by Stanley Wilkin
Crystallising thin white light Decked with ancient portraits, The air heavy with dust. Beneath the glittering floorboards Rodents scurried, smelling out crumbs. This was where The old man walked at the very end Of his very long life, grappling With pitiless unforgiving memories. In this garish, gargoyle haunted house Amidst the enduring pine trees he […]
A Gemini’s Hurt by Stephen Allen
Winged love lost its wings, striding In another disguise which frowns At he which clod in a mourning glow, A woe as never shined so bright insight. Killed by his own fear In a dream that shed distilled tears. In a crystal drop Joy flat lined on his cheeks, But he hugged that smile in […]
A Dogs Love Is a Never Ending Game by Stacey Chillemi
As I stand beneath the open sky As the heat from the sun pours deep into my soul I quickly stare at the snakeskin clouds that fill the deep blue skies above “Woof! Woof!” My big blue eyes quickly gaze straight ahead Into the big green fields that circle around us Here comes my dog […]
A Carta/The Letter by Soaroir de Campos
A Carta/The Letter by Soaroir de Campos me postei dormente em torrão de turfa seca como resto de amaryllis esperando Maio. lembra-se? as cores estão se transmutando o céu já é azul-inverno tudo por brotar – do estômago às órbitas esperando resposta. Free Translation by Soaroir The Letter I laid dormant in Dry-turf clay As […]
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit A noun’s a thing. A verb’s the thing it does. An adjective is what describes the noun. In “The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz” of and with are prepositions. The’s an article, a can’s a noun, a noun’s a thing. A verb’s the thing it does. […]
The Convoy by Stephenie Tucker
All goes dark, first sound, then sight. I look to see my men alright. Deafening silence in concrete rain, Distract me from the searing pain. All time stops and vantage ends, As I look upon my dying friends. Radio in and evac out, No time for tears between the shouts. Between the blood and shrapnel […]
Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
Some Clouds by Steve Kowit Now that I’ve unplugged the phone, no one can reach me– At least for this one afternoon they will have to get by without my advice or opinion. Now nobody else is going to call & ask in a tentative voice if I haven’t yet heard that she’s dead, that […]
Resolute by Stephenie Tucker
The men were dead, their lives, long gone. And yet, their cause still lingered on. The banners wavered in the breeze, through borderlands of ship less seas. And now Apollo shall rise once more, to ferry souls to whitened shores. Now red shall rise the yellow sun, and end at last what we have done. […]
Purple Heart Liz (My Girl At Woodstock) by Steve Sant
Purple Heart Liz (My Girl At Woodstock) by Steve Sant It was all record playing Jigging and swaying Some experiment too Although not ever I All fumbling and shy I left all the tripping to you Oh I had my wild times Fuelled by beers and wines And I once smoked a funny cigarette Though […]
Numb by Stephenie Tucker
The door kicked in the dust relayed, The area secure and stayed. No longer taking time for peace, Within myself, it’s out of reach. No more time spent to say goodbyes, No more tears left for me to cry. I do my job and stay detached, Don’t even care if I come back. They call […]
Notice by Steve Kowit
Notice by Steve Kowit This evening, the sturdy Levi’s I wore every day for over a year & which seemed to the end in perfect condition, suddenly tore. How or why I don’t know, but there it was: a big rip at the crotch. A month ago my friend Nick walked off a racquetball court, […]
Must Work by Steve Downes
Must write must write must work must work minimum wage or better can’t be too physical got a bad back can’t be too stressful bend under pressure can’t be too sexual haven’t got the legs Must write must write must work must work minimum wage or better can’t work for corporate I’m an anarchist can’t […]
Lifetime Of Death by Steve Sant
Lifetime Of Death by Steve Sant A Lifetime Of Death The broken feeling you learn it young You must for it’s certainty true No hysterical fits just stiff upper lips We are British and that’s what we do So when I was but five and my grandfather died And old aunts wept silent tears I […]
In The Chapel Of Rest by Steve Sant
In The Chapel Of Rest by Steve Sant Forever I have seen her Yet never did we speak Well only in some dreams I had On five, six nights a week Then yesterday by chance As she got upon my train The only seat free, was next to me And so my chance it came […]
A Warrior’s Truth by Stephenie Tucker
The dying gasps of night are blackest before the dawn, The final surge of courage calls us to battle on. Enemies approaching from the hillside to the west, Trenches lined with casualties pulling at my chest. Flares as bright as day blinding vision tones of white, Bullets biting dirt rings too familiar sounds of spite. […]
A Soldier’s Song by Stephenie Tucker
Seventeen and full of rage, He fell in love with the careless gauge, of lipsticks red and flawless age, and monsters kept within the cage. Wonder lust and broken down, nothing world, can’t stop me now. bullets spent through hell spit fire, souls to burn on sandy pyres. New world turned and spat him out, […]
The Triangle by Subhash Misra
Every time I come closer to love Poetry dampens Every time I care I lose my words There is something about rhyming That subsists on separation But then every time I am on the verge Of losing and I am alone Poems come and hug me serially There is a nefarious element At play I’d […]
The Last Summer by Subhash Misra
This year There will be no summer Inestimable afternoons When not much really remains Only a silence burning in The oven of the passing day The desiccated thoughts Spread like clay Pensive trees Along tepid waters Consenting to the miasmic Life of reflection Floating as if There is still time for return But that is […]
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit A noun’s a thing. A verb’s the thing it does. An adjective is what describes the noun. In “The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz” of and with are prepositions. The’s an article, a can’s a noun, a noun’s a thing. A verb’s the thing it does. […]
The dawn by Sukumaran Devarajan
Dark though the sky appears Hope breaks out as twilight dawns Shattering the fears of the Night Heralding the day’s disorder in its wake Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster