Far Within Us #7 by Vasko Popa
Toothed eyes fly Over still waters Around us purple lips Flutter from branches Screams hit the blue And fall onto pillows Our homes hide Behind narrow backs Hands clutch at Flimsy clouds Our veins roll turbid Bed and tables Of shattered bones Noon has fallen into our hands And turned all gloomy An open grave […]
Far Within Us #3 by Vasko Popa
Unquiet you walk Along the rims of my eyes On the invisible grating Before your lips My naked words shiver We steal moments From the unheeding iron saws Your hands sadly Flow into mine The air is impassable ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and […]
Far Within Us #2 by Vasko Popa
Look here’s that uninvited Alien presence look it’s here A shudder on the ocean of tea in the cup Rust taking hold On the edges of our laughter A snake coiled in the depths of the mirror Will I be able to hide you From your face in mine Look it’s the third shadow On […]
Give Me Back My Rags #1 by Vasko Popa
Give me back my rags My rags of pure dreaming Of silk smiling of striped foreboding Of my cloth of lace My rags of spotted hope Of burnished desire of chequered glances Of skin from my face Give me back my rags Give me when I ask you nicely ————— The End And that’s the […]
Between Games by Vasko Popa
Nobody rests This one constantly shifts his eyes Hangs them on his head And whether he wants it or not starts walking backwards He puts them on the soles of his feet And whether he wants it or not returns walking on his head This one turns into an ear He hears all that won’t […]
Anne Pennington by Vasko Popa
Until her last breath she enlarges Her Oxford house Built in Slavonic Vowels and consonants She polishes the corner-stones Until their Anglo-Saxon shine Begins to sing Her death is like a short breath-stop Under the distant limetrees of her friends ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by […]
Give Me Back My Rags #11 by Vasko Popa
I’ve wiped your face off my face Ripped your shadow off my shadow Leveled the hills in you Turned your plains into hills Set your seasons quarreling Turned all the ends of the world from you Wrapped the path of my life around you My impenetrable my impossible path Just try to meet me now […]
Give Me Back My Rags #12 by Vasko Popa
Enough chattering violets enough sweet trash I won’t hear anything know anything Enough enough of all I’ll say the last enough Fill my mouth with earth Grit my teeth To break off you skull guzzler To break off once for all I’ll just be what I am Without root without branch without crown I’ll lean […]
The Prisoners Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
Open little box We kiss your bottom and cover Keyhole and key The whole world lies crumpted in you It resembles everything Except itself Not even your clear-sky mother Would recognize it anymore The rust will eat your key Our world and us there inside And finally you too We kiss your four sides And […]
The Craftsmen Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
Don’t open the little box Heaven’s hat will fall out of her Don’t close her for any reason She’ll bite the trouser-leg of eternity Don’t drop her on the earth The sun’s eggs will break inside her Don’t throw her in the air Earth’s bones will break inside her Don’t hold her in your hands […]
Before The Game by Vasko Popa
Shut one eye then the other Peek into every corner of yourself See that there are no nails no thieves See that there are no cuckoo’s eggs Shut then the other eye Squat and jump Jump high high high On top of yourself Fall then with all your weight Fall for days on end deep […]
Far Within Us #1 by Vasko Popa
We raise our arms The street climbs into the sky We lower our eyes The roofs go down into the earth From every pain We do not mention Grows a chestnut tree That stays mysterious behind us From every hope We cherish Sprouts a star That moves unreachable before us Can you hear a bullet […]
The Benefactors Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
We’ll return the little box Into the arms Of her inconspicuously honest properties We won’t do anything Against her will We’ll simply take her apart We’ll crucify her On her own cross Piece her bloated emptiness And let ooze All the blue cosmic blood she gathered We’ll sweet her clean of stars And anti-stars And […]
The Enemies Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
Don’t box down to the little box Which supposedly contains everything Your star and all other stars Empty yourself In her emptiness Take two nails out of her And give them to the owners To eat Make a hold in her middle And stick on your clapper Fill her with blueprints And the skin of […]
Hide-And-Seek by Vasko Popa
Someone hides from someone else Hides under his tongue The other looks for him under the earth He hides on his forehead The other looks for him in the sky He hides inside his forgetfulness The other looks for him in the grass Looks for him looks There’s no place he doesn’t look And looking […]
The Owners Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
Line the inside of the little box With your precious skin And make yourself cozy Just as you would in your own home Make space voyages inside her Gather stars make time squirt its milk And sleep in the clouds Just don’t go around pretending You’re more important than her length And wiser than her […]
The Little Box by Vasko Popa
The little box gets her first teeth And her little length Little width little emptiness And all the rest she has The little box continues growing The cupboard that she was inside Is now inside her And she grows bigger bigger bigger Now the room is inside her And the house and the city and […]
Race by Vasko Popa
Some bite from the others A leg an arm or whatever Take it between their teeth Run out as fast as they can Cover it up with earth The others scatter everywhere Sniff look sniff look Dig up the whole earth If they are lucky and find an arm Or leg or whatever It’s their […]
In The Village Of My Ancestors by Vasko Popa
Someone embraces me Someone looks at me with the eyes of a wolf Someone takes off his hat So I can see him better Everyone asks me Do you know how I’m related to you Unknown old men and women Appropriate the names Of young men and women from my memory I ask one of […]
Last News About The Little Box by Vasko Popa
The little box which contains the world Fell in love with herself And conceived Still another little box The little box of the little box Also fell in love with herself And conceived Still another little box And so it went on forever The world from the little box Ought to be inside The last […]
Give Me Back My Rags by Vasko Popa
Just come to my mind My thoughts will scratch out your face Just come into my sight My eyes will start snarling at you Just open your mouth My silence will smash your jaws Just remind me of you My remembering will paw up the ground under your feet That’s what it’s come to between […]
Far Within Us #5 by Vasko Popa
The nights are running out of darkness Steel branches grasp The arms of passers-by Only anonymour chimneys Are free to walk the streets Which slice across our sleeplessness In the gutters our stars decay ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — […]
Far Within Us #4 by Vasko Popa
Green gloves rustle On the avenue’s branches The evening carries us under its arm By a path which leaves no trace The rain falls on its knees Before the fugitive windows The yards come out of their gates And stand looking after us ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, […]
A Forgetful Number by Vasko Popa
Once upon a time there was a number Pure and round like the sun But alone very much alone It began to reckon with itself It divided multiplied itself It subtracted added itself And remained always alone It stopped reckoning with itself And shut itself up in its round And sunny purity Outside were left […]
A Conceited Mistake by Vasko Popa
Once upon a time there was a mistake So silly so small That no one would even have noticed it It couldn’t bear To see itself to hear of itself It invented all manner of things Just to prove that it didn’t really exist It invented space To put its proofs in And time to […]
We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic
We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic We were cold. On that summer night. We were embraced and talked about the rains. About the rains that were falling violently. Falling as if the sky itself was falling. Rains, that have fallen forever. Rains that made us soaking wet to the bones. Today we […]
Twins by Vinko Kalinić
We are sitting there one opposite the other, the sea and me neither I understand the sea nor the sea understands me there is nothing between us except the fog that bothers us wholeheartedly and that is so, nothing that divides us into two seas which are equally blue, endless and deserted only one conjunction […]
To a friend by Vinko Kalinić
Hey friend, let your hands grow as they pass, silently among people when tired at early dawn they wake all secrets, from all your warm harbours. In the dark of nights, when my God comes down when the stars begin (singing) their fables when common things turn magnificent I will think of you, as a […]
Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
Time to enjoy, Sunday being a holiday, With friends and relatives, for us it is a fun day, A sea of celebrations, why wait near the shore, Time for dive into it and do something more. Why Monday after Sunday, we have no clues, But start the week, waking up for the Monday morning blues, […]
The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
(All-points bulletin face) If they would ever ask me why life, I’ll tell them: because of the boy ! Because of the boy who’s like a leaf – and the tree and the wind and the road – and lots of other winding things from this, smoky side of me where roosters don’t sing where […]
The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
Stormy ocean is angrily hitting the rock the boy is sitting on the rock is patiently bearing strong kicks from the angrily sea and he’s quiet the boy is silently watching how the stormy sea is angrily hitting the rock he listens he listens how broken sounds are dripping the ancient songs about the rock […]
Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal
Summer We Called Home Unfulfilled promises jangle like an empty syringe of morphine Sprinkling the pain of blockages further into the veins The chapel at the turn of the street is cob-webbed with morbid confessions They tar its facade; reduce it to a box of walls when faith disappears I cannot pray anymore…I am sunk […]
Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram
Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram A lonely manwalks throughthe night,Searching hardfor the light.Life soakedwith whiskey and rye,Spends hourswondering why.He carries his burdensin his head,sometimes wishinghe was dead.But something carries him on.looking for a lifethat’s beenlong gone. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
Sometimes during ill days when gloomy and heavy rains drop onto my head I wander off somewhere at the very end of the city where lost boys in conspiracy with a wind patiently build their playful worlds of mud their hands lively and naked hanging over the clifs from where the flame burns swallowing gluttonously […]
See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
See, how I love you: like birds which are getting to the trip over the oceans not counting the time and the distance not even how much energy would they need to bridge the open sea not warring about the rains, storms and winds anger not even where would they sleep, or what would they […]
Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
You live inside my head and I know that I even remember the moment when you stopped to be a woman and became my destiny carelessly you passed through my morning flirty, fragile, wild and happy, with a smile, contagious like a plague you have passed through, like winds which come and pass by, and […]
Respect her by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
She is the creator; she brought you to this world, With all her love and care, you are beautifully mould, Whatever mistake you did, she still stood for you, She is the mother, did all this with no expectation from you. She tried everything, but did make you laugh, Wanted you to be always happy, […]
Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić
I can not write anything tonight. As the moon and the stars and the whole sky on this night are nothing else but cosmic panthomimes from an unsuccessful magician’s trick, sarcastic graphic signs of our civilisation, inarticulated sounds from which is imposible to read anything about perspectives of the mute universe. And the Earth, dry […]
Raw Silk by Vinita Agrawal
Raw Silk When at last we meet do not say hello That greeting for strangers… We’ve shared too many moons on the palettes of our nights When we meet Leave the race behind. Face me Become scent Stretch my lungs Become jaggery Color my tongue When we meet Come undone like a silken knot in […]
Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
Even when sad, Your eyes are beautiful like the night and the moonlight glare in vain the wicked thoughts coming that carry a pitcher of turmoil I, who is walking behind the clouds I testify: raise the head, child and it will shine stronger than dawning emerald jewel in the seashell of Your smile Zagreb, […]