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Me & Myself | Prafulla Sriniwas

Me and myself are on journey of life,
We roam around
We broke laughter
We went through the edge of a knife.

We talked to each other
We choked each other
We revoked each other
And we learn to live in plight either

We saw the dream
We fought and scream
We challenged ourselves often
And we went against the flow of a stream

We did whatever we want
We didn’t give up our chant
We pushed ourselves to the mount
Against all those odds that count

Finally, we learned the spirit of life
It’s nothing but to be our own
Take that criticism and betrayal,
Train yourself resistant & forget which is gone

Married Tenderness – A Poem by G. S. Katz

It’s not quite sex
But it is passion
I call it “arming”
It’s tender and sweet

Aligning myself next to her
Gently rubbing her arm as she sleeps
It’s light and feathery
A message of love not lust

She smiles slightly
Knows I’m there
As soon as I see her expression
I fall back into slumber without a care

Weeping (Got the Nobel) – A Poem by Ananya S. Guha

I see bullet
soft pedalling on
knees
shoot it
extirpate wounds
there is no blood
no wound, a searing
pain
wound is in bullet
blood is in bullet.
Shoot.
Weep, they all are.
In Afghanistan, India,
Kashmir.
Weep.
Bob Dylan’s weeping.
Got the Nobel.

Strawberry Moon Eclipsed | Christine Emmert

The strawberry taste of life
is one to which I am allergic
although the moon came out
large and succulent
that night .
Thunder shook off the pink color
and lightning revealed anemia beneath.
Rain washed over the heavens, dripping off the clouds.
Our anticipation was bathed
in reality of heavenly rage.

I Am Art | Mónika Tóth

Who I am
I don’t know who I am
it’s a shame
it’s bad
it’s insane
maybe
I am the king
or I am an ancient stone
who I am
I ask myself
I am Art.
I am a reader.
I am who I am
no matter

Rose-Tinted Binoculars | Steve Denehan

A time ago, when I would run, the grass would barely bend,
The laws of physics and myself were not considered friends.
I would fly along at such a pace my shadow would surrender,
Before a letter was even sent I could return to sender.
I could jump from any crazy height and land without a mark,
I could tumble down most any hill, make a fire from a spark.
My hands would very rarely rest upon my handlebars,
The road was but a playground for weaving through the cars.
From our secret lair we could watch the world and never once be seen.
If dirt was steel, I was a magnet with not an inch left clean.
Ghost stories made the short walk home last a thousand years,
A multitude of hidden things to fertilise my fears.
I made a fairly decent dent into the sugar mountain,
And quenched my never-ending thirst with a sticky fizzy fountain.
Trees were climbed and blood was spilled and bees were caught in jars,
And our hearts came tumbling from our mouths as we lay and watched the stars.

War of 2016 | Langley Shazor

Day Breaks
The smoke clears
Dust settles
Thousands lay dying
Ravaged by destruction
Victors stagger amongst empty shells
Suffering casualties of their own
Unsure if this was the right decision
Too late to turn back now
Are there any spoils?
What joy can there be
Ruling over rubble?
What success can be gleaned
In the midst of total annihilation?
And this is just the beginning
Survivors of ruination
Feel the obligation of retribution
Preparing for the next engagement
They lie in wait
All the while,
Conquerors proactively seek out
Last pockets of resistance
Battles will be waged
Collateral damage exponentially increased
For liberty is no longer an option
Leaving only death
The result of defiance
As well as assimilation

The Cruelty of Strangers – A Poem by James Diaz

Some cannot hold their anger
when it roars
it’s mostly blinded inside
unable to say one true thing about itself.

“I find it sad,”
you once said to me
“How people can learn to be so petty,
hold grudges, burn others
with unkindness.”

“They didn’t learn it,
they chose it,”
some other part of me
on a bad night
might say.

Benefits of doubt
can easily be wasted.

I too have stood at the edge of things
water towers bathed in light
across the field.

I am no one’s villain
the loneliest road
the one that you feel so sure of
packed away beneath
what cannot be named
cruelly or gently.

We will survive this
one world
wounded and bitter to spite selves
sharing only shatters,
unattended –
unloved in their core.

The Dream Thieves | Neil Creighton

In sleep I saw a House of Dreams,
golden doors open wide,
liberty written on its walls,
equality glowing inside.

Then came the smiling thieves
in tailored suits and ties,
deceitful intent glibly oiled
by their well practised lies.

Inside, they plundered all its treasure,
stripped all the jewelled beams,
carried away the golden orbs
that lit the House of Dreams.

They left the merest appearance,
a painted, empty facade,
and everything that they spewed out
was stained deceptive fraud.

I awoke drenched and shivering
from the horror I had seen,
blood now oozing through the door
of the ruined House of Dreams.

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