21st century poetry

The Songs of the Poets That Fill Their Hearts with Longing | Rising of the Sun

When are we to be saved when we disregard helpful fact?
When are we to be free from misty mind?
Folks of today!
When are we to consider not the truth?
Truth afore our plain eyes…. less important.
When’ll our mind be clear from ash and cinder?
When we disregard our past… our “Now” near perplix miles.
Answer placed at the socket of our hearts.
Why do we fancy not tips that helps brownish teeths look attractive.
Junks everywhere…. placed beneath, hang in altitude.
Why do we waste our goody assets on blinks?
It won’t last!
Why do we keep our eyes to deadly poison?
You know how it hurt and the burning pains wrath on skin.
Why do we keep our eyes to enmity?
World are destroyed.
Globe are unsold.
Lifes are lost and tears of blood that gleam on slow track in sad rudiment.
We wreck ourselves everyday, we wreck our help, we wreck our hope in help and can we wreck the wreck that hope no grace in us.
See tears.. evryday it grows like sour fruits of Eden.
Why do we keep all our sensory organs to what wreck ourpeace?

That Meeting There | Krushna Chandra Mishra

Fondly I remember that event today.
Many years have come to pass in between.
Amidst occasional blushes I gloat over your words.
I am confirmed those were not your words truly.

Equally assured I rest today left all to myself.
I am happy I don’t need to tell you everything .
Now the gulf of years separating us is unbridgeable.

I am confident you are left unhurt to lie well there.
Your charm in a serene soft beckoning soothes all.
All questions surfacing here find me alone for an answer.

Turtle on Log | Christine Emmert

The first turtle clung to the log
that stretched out over the water.
Seductive sunlight
led another follower to climb behind,
the two shells shining in the day.
Trust that warmth would fill them
in silent communion.
The river rushed by.
They were acknowledged
by poets and angels
and other turtles
who added to their masterpiece.

Love Is All-Seeing | Mónika Tóth

I confess
the truth is
every day
every night
every season
I want to fall asleep
in your lap
listening to the
wonderful rhythm of your heart
Love isn’t blind
love is all-seeing

Without You… | Mónika Tóth

dedicated my nice Romanian friend Vasile

You are the song of my life
You are the rhythm of my life
You are the destination of my life
You are the road of my life
You are the sun of my life
You are the fire of my life
You are the light of my life
You are my life,
Without you i am dry leaf

Six UFO Haiku | Denny E. Marshall

UFO stranded
nothing wrong with the spaceship
lost the keys again

landing UFO
earthlings are surprised they had
no concept of clothes

two recent reports
UFO sightings rising
drone sales increasing

landing UFO
destination the South Pole
looking for ice cubes

landing UFO
is only a half-inch wide
eaten by small bird

landing UFO
occupant’s shade of purple
not the color green

Veiled Sorrows | Gemelene Magalona

We were a paradox of time and space between these jaded mirrors
Where nostalgia bleeds with every tainted touch
Of blinded yearnings brought by the fading memory
I’ve buried in the graveyard of our yesterday’s soil

Where April summers blossomed only the agony
Of your living ghost where it haunts the dark promises
You have left upon my shivering lips.

I’m still lost in the sunshine of your warm smiles
As it fades out in the shadows of our dusky sunsets
Where fallen skies cascade these wistful eyes
Of my veiled sorrows weaving these midnight tears tonight.

Rattlesnake | Mary Bone

As I walked through tall grass,
I heard a rattle and a movement
winding through the grass.
I stood still as the danger
slithered by.
I had been warned.

A La Recherche Des Choses Extraordinaires | Stan Morrison

seeking to amass only the rare
one-of-a-kind, museum-worthy
as in “better homes than yours”

shunning the average stuff
dreading the label “ordinary”
defining one’s self-esteem

a lifetime of chasing the latest
purely deserving admiration
worries over what others say

self-imposed no mercy mission
endless ennui with le dernier cri
don’t you see it matters not to me

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