Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram

Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram Pigeons get lazy too. Surely this one saw the car and refused to move. Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster

Peddler Road Flyover by Vinita Agrawal

Pedder Road Flyover It was here underneath the posh flyover with its underbelly bursting open like a crammed carton of sins that I learnt about life. I saw existence morph from penthouses and slick condos to the wall-less homes of ragpickers like a Salvador Dali painting, except for the curation of colors. Grey was the […]

Pay your last respects by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

And make them feel sad when we are gone, Life is a gift for us between birth and death, So live every moment, your every breath. We were born with a cry, And might end the same I don’t know why? Whatever we know, is the LIFE we spent, So don’t waste it ever, with […]

My rains by Vinko Kalinic

My rains by Vinko Kalinic Shoulder to shoulder, we are pouring like old mates, the rain and I. and it is so, we laugh, like crazy ones – cause sun doesn’t shine. The cold water walks after me, living man walks on a footpath – falls from the sky, returning to the land: I after […]

My mother was telling me by Vinko Kalinic

My mother was telling me by Vinko Kalinic My mother was telling me: my son, the Sun is up in heaven, don’t run after it, as nobody’s ever reached it so far. – And me, I haven’t believed her, because the Sun is something that every morning emerges in the corner of the sky, to […]

My angel’s face by Vinko Kalinić

All my life I was searching for the corner of the universe where I would bury the pitcher of my turmoil -and I didn’t find it I have walked the whole Earth across and all over many towns I came around and was lost amongst the people I visited remote villages too and those totally […]

Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal

Missing Person I don’t remember anything about the day we emptied mother’s ashes in the river. Just the overcast grey sky, dowelled like a Serengeti of gloom somewhere up above. The hospital had trussed her hermetically to prevent chemical bloating, scaffolded her abdomen in particular…too much tumor there, they’d said blandly. So, in the end, […]

Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić

Do not worry, I haven’t forgoten you even though we haven’t heard from each other for centuries. At some hollow time of the night, I’m still poetry writing because of you. And during the day, drinking often from that same invisible fountain, which makes me behave totaly childish. It happens at some blind time, when […]

Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic

Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic 1. classic song has rhyme. modern one has metaphors, philosophy, play of words and lots of bullshitting. my song has nothing. just you. naked. pure. with a smile of an angel and a look of a whore. ( but yes! – the most beautiful angel […]

Lets go by Vinko Kalinić

Give me your hand, lets go, lets get out of this banality – true, we might never be children again whose faces glow of innocent carelessness but we still can be people totaly extraordinary, and totaly different we can still avoid rail tracks and evade the roads we still can…we still can… all that never […]

Legacy by Vinko Kalinić

All loves are just the dust on the road which we are picking and stacking down in some softer part of us, then sometimes after being crushed of wandering and insomnia we stop in the middle of the street, asking ourselves who has left that husky emptiness in the sight who left the blunt echoes […]

Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

Life is so beautiful, what more should I seek, With families and friends, no better time what I could think, A rain of happiness, what a lovely shower, I love to get drenched without any cover. But not everybody are gifted, this makes me wonder, I start thinking, why did god do such a blunder? […]

Instead of farewell by Vinko Kalinić

– to Srdjan, the boy who has changed my world tell all those who you will love after me that your eyes have already conquered the world once. and also that your hands have split the ocean, dividing it in two. to those who would be kissing you in those sleepless nights , tell them: […]

If you love the life by Vinko Kalinić

If you love the life – dream ! perhaps sometimes some drop of that crazy infinity some of your darkness may attenuate Vinko Kalinic (Translated into English Darko Kotevski, Melbourne, Australia) Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster

I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic

I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic to have! to have! to have! that verb spinns around the world globe like tornado. one very small intimate selfishness tumbled up. and stamps over! stamps over! stamps over!…until it wades over everything that makes sense. and what is beautiful. even ourselves. I read that some […]

I am your friend by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

You are not alone, Keep your fears thrown, You are a beautiful soul, Who can win in any poll. You are my friend, I am here to blend. It is a beautiful day, Come let’s go out to play, It is your game; it is your choice, I am here for you, let’s just rejoice. […]

I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you by Vinko Kalinić

I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you And in the core of that dream There I stood The dream was blank The sky was empty and all the skies were devoured by the dark Your lips were the only thing shivering in the dark loose as the soil fervid as bread I don’t know, that dream, […]

House For Sale by Vinita Agrawal

House For Sale The bungalow at Marine Drive is on sale; the last of its owners has died leaving behind walls lunatic with visions and red luscious dates ashen with grief The mist gliding inwards from the Arabian Sea like an aerophane of damp ice blue chiffon sketching a familiar face on the house’s bleached […]

Hey! Mr.Pothole by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

I was on road, riding on my bike, Something hit me or I hit something, which I dint like, For a moment, I said hi to my soul, Never realized, that there was a pothole. Hey Mr.Pothole, you are no crater, For this is a road, you are just a clutter, You are ugly, why […]

Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

World was new to me, it made me curious, I had lots of questions, and I was dubious, It was dark out there, I dint know how I could cope, It is then I saw light, you came in as a ray of hope. You guided me well, showed me the right path, You put […]

Get together by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

It was in the evening, I got a call, A gentle greetings from the other side, it was my old pal, It was nice to talk to him, after a long while, Talking everything from past to present, our memories did pile, Not only us, but we were many, It had been a long time; […]

Fear by Vinko Kalinić

My darling, all these words are just deep sigh a shivering breath on my lips in the abyss black of deceptive interior all my thoughts are scattered like crystal glasses in rotten intestines of the broken showcase I’d love you my darling to enter into my dream that our fire burns like a bonfire so, […]

Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic

Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic That light which reflects from your face, burns inside me like some sort of night Sun. Turning night into a day. And also, day into a night. Lost, I’m trying to find that path which leads there – there, where everyone would like […]

Don’t know the answer by Vinko Kalinic

Don’t know the answer by Vinko Kalinic you ask me: why I love you? yes, you? to me absolutely unknown being? but you don’t ask me how deep are those eyes of yours? and how can a living man not feel what burns inside those eyes? so festive. and warm. I don’t know the answer. […]

Dog’s love by Vinko Kalinić

I still wake up in the middle of the night and I bark at the Moon like a dog your eyes wake me up and those hidden powers you have you Naughty Black Devil and what can I say when you know everything from the first moment since we met you’ve stolen the stars the […]

Dear Traffic Signal by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

I see you every day, you are always there, Sunny day or rainy day, you do your job with care, You might be happy, you might be sad, You change colors, green, yellow and red, There was time when I could pass by you in seconds, Now there is too much of traffic, minutes or […]

Confessions of a Software Engineer by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

I run only when my arse is on fire, I work better under pressure, My brain is somehow wired to be motivated for a hike, That is why I am still travelling on a bike, I dreamt of onsite, either short term or long term, I kept waiting and waiting, you dint confirm, I come […]

Black song about a black woman and red wine by Vinko Kalinić

In the black pub at the black table the black woman is sitting In the black glass red wine’s flashing in the applause humming people coming and leaving From the black piano black sounds are spreading Black thoughts under the black table protruding and creeping black people emptying and licking black glasses Only the black […]

Birthday party blunder by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

It was a beautiful evening; it was a colorful day, It was something special; it was my niece’s birthday, The hall was decorated, with balloons fully blown, She was looking so pretty, with beautiful green gown. Guests did arrive, celebrations did start, Cake was on the table, waiting to be cut. Candles were lit, everything […]

Beautiful Stranger by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa

HE: She is so beautiful, who is this stranger? She is a BOMB, not just another cracker, Is it light or her smile, shining so bright? I can see just her, blinding my sight, I got bowled by her, by just a glance, Hope to see her again and get another chance, I got this […]

Ballad about a stinking flower by Vinko Kalinic

Ballad about a stinking flower by Vinko Kalinic I met this flower many times and every time I touches me with tousled beauty of its colours, and also with a sad, untold story about how people behave and name things. If there’s a crumb of soil, as they tell me – it’s growing everywhere! And […]

Altar amid the sea by Vinko Kalinic

Altar amid the sea by Vinko Kalinic One has asked some other one once there: excuse me the old mate, but can you possibly tell me what is that hill there that sticks out above the open sea evil and rough the other one is answering to this one back: nothing son, that hill there […]

To his Indifferent Mistress by William Wycherley

I. Ah! Dear, proud Charmer, cou’d you prove At once more Cruel, or less Fair, Your Cruelty wou’d speak some Love, In turning Mine to strong Despair; For luke-warm Love, or cold Indifference, Keeps with more Pain my Flame in more Suspence. II. To make me Yours, you still disdain, Yet can’t consent to let […]

Sleep and Death by William Wycherley

O Sleep! thou dost thy healing Virtues lend, At once t’instruct our Nature, and befriend. Do’st to our wearied Limbs fresh Strength supply, And giv’st Ideas what ’twill be to die. Brother of Death! In Office how the same! Both lent us to repair our shatter’d Frame; Yet diff’ring here, that Sleep at best can […]

Love and Wine by William Wycherley

In vain I Drunkenness forswore, Because by That made Sick and Blind; Since tho’ I have the Flask giv’n o’er, Love still intoxicates my Mind. If then for either Sottishness, Alike Man’s Sense is in Disguise; No matter which way, sure, it is, By sparkling Wine, or sparkling Eyes. Yet most debauch’d the Lovers shew, […]

In Praise of Laziness by William Wycherley

    O God-like State! thou Heav’nly Laziness! Which, in thy Rags, canst thy Professors Bless, Ensure their Innocence, Peace, Ease, or Rest, Ev’n here, with Poverty, to make ’em Blest; Their Faith, and Honour, best dost justifie, Securing their Good Name, and Liberty, From Scandal, Care, Fear, Pain, and Slavery; Blest State on Earth! […]

Drinking-Song, A. To a Formal, Proud, Sober Coxcomb by William Wycherley

I. Let the Dull, Sober, and the Grave, But fit for drudging, Bus’ness have; Let sitting still, my Hand employ, My busie Tongue, not thoughtless Head; Employment, which wou’d Cares destroy, Not such, by which, more still are bred; II. Let all Ambitious Sots flie high, To make their Steps more slippery, Whilst I, with […]