the human condition poems

Funny | Haris Adhikari - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Funny | Haris Adhikari

Funny, how people pop up
in disguise, or in infatuation, following
to find a fault or two, pasting
honeycombs
on the virtual cliff of today’s culture.
Funny further
how plastic hearts
pulsate life into
moments of wide grins, either by grinning
on the doorway, leaning
a nubile body, revealing
the interior– posh empty
sofa, chair, money plant, erotic
painting lookin’ down
at the empty glass on the table– or by
coming to a long, long emotional appeal,
telling a story of a stranded,
exotic princess in exile, asking
to be an abetter, to send a few
hundred dollars, for some ‘technical reasons’,
to get the royal treasures back– or by conning
into giving your account number
for some unknown American lottery you’ve won!
Who are these people? Don’t they have
any other work to do? Funny,
funny even for a thought!
Om Mani Padme Hum!

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What Is Right | Ananya S. Guha - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

What Is Right | Ananya S. Guha

You stand rock-like
But I stand on flimsy
Footprints reaching
Out for words in emptiness
You stand in steadfast principles
But mine waver every moment
When the earth shakes
Or tornado strikes
You say give never get
I say give and let live
I am bedrock of passion
Stone foot compassion
Wavering in light
Stoic at night
Till dreams are a cleavage
In what is right

Erosion | Judy Moskowitz - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Erosion | Judy Moskowitz

A paranoid sky talks to the sun
afraid to look down
asks why and how
who do you count on
at the end of the day
when its sundown and air
is thick as burnt steak
a brush fire becomes a storm
they turned their backs
he packed his bags
nobody around
to catch the fall
who do you count on
at the end of the day
when nothing is shared
down deep where it counts
all I could see is the lack
of eye contact
that didn’t want to be touched
or found in an empty pool
I looked into the midnight sky
hiding in all the wrong places
whetting my appetite
for something ugly

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