Showing posts with label short poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short poem. Show all posts

2/12/23

I Am Afraid - Nizar Kabbani (translated by B.K. Frangieh & C.R. Brown)

I am afraid

To express my love to you

Wine loses its fragrance

When poured into a goblet.

12/4/22

The World Loved by Moonlight - Jane Hirshfield

You must try, 

the voice said, to become colder. 

I understood at once. 

It is like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, 

braced in stone. Only something heartless

could bear the full weight.

10/22/22

XIII - Stephen Crane

IF THERE IS A WITNESS TO MY LITTLE LIFE,
TO MY TINY THROES AND STRUGGLES,
HE SEES A FOOL ;
AND IT IS NOT FINE FOR GODS TO MENACE
       FOOLS.

8/17/21

Confession - Samantha King

I hate you wouldn’t quite do it

I forgive you isn’t quite my speed

I regret meeting you would be a lie

The best thing for me

was removing you from my life

That, I am sure of

3/3/19

a haiku about you - lc

i do not need a
flower’s petals to know that
you do not love me

2/4/19

Decline - Friedrich Nietzsche

“He sinks, he falls, he’s done”—says who?
The truth is: he climbs down to you.
His over-bliss became too stark,
His over-light pursues your dark.

10/21/18

The Unfree Man - Friedrich Nietzsche

A. He stands and harks: what does he hear?
     What sound is ringing in his ear?
     What struck him down? What mortal fear?
B. Who once wore chains, will always think
     That he is followed by their clink.

9/26/18

THE POEM - Franz Wright

It was like getting a love letter from a tree

Eyes closed forever to find you—

There is a life which
if I could have it
I would have chosen for myself from the beginning

3/11/18

intellectualism - Nikki Giovanni

sometimes i feel like i just get in
everybody’s way
when i was a little girl
i used to go read
or make fudge
when i got bigger i
read
or picked my nose
that’s what they called
intelligence
or when i got older
intellectualism
but it was only
that i was in the way

5/4/17

Crow, Scarecrow - Leonard Gontarek

A crow sits on the head

of a scarecrow. I see myself in that.

Which part of fuck off don't I understand.

4/2/17

Untitled - Chris Mc Geown


Mental illnesses
Are constellations
Of the mind–
Most people won’t
See them
Unless you point
Them out.

12/1/16

Untitled - Rupi Kaur


how is it so easy for you
to be kind to people he asked

milk and honey dripped
from my lips as i answered

cause people have not
been kind to me

9/8/16

dial tone - Riley R.

The saddest poem I ever wrote
was the “goodbye” I whispered
on the skin of your temple
so softly you didn’t hear it
until the fifth time you called
and I didn’t pick up
when the voicemail you left
was ten seconds of silence
followed by a sigh
as you took the phone from your ear.

9/3/16

"A youth in apparel that glittered" - Stephen Crane

A youth in apparel that glittered
Went to walk in a grim forest.
There he met an assassin
Attired all in garb of old days;
He, scowling through the thickets,
And dagger poised quivering,
Rushed upon the youth.
"Sir," said this latter,
"I am enchanted, believe me,
To die, thus,
In this medieval fashion,
According to the best legends;
Ah, what joy!"
Then took he the wound, smiling,
And died, content.

7/11/16

"For some there is no music" - Henry Rollins

For some there is no music
No lights
No fire
No untamed madness that breathes life
There is work
Anguish
Frustration
Rage
Despair
A dullness that rings like wooden thunder

7/10/16

Icarus in Love. - Unknown

I loved you as
Icarus loved
The sun –

Too close,
Too much.

6/26/16

"They don't lie a lot" - Henry Rollins

They don't lie a lot
They just don't tell the truth very often
Truth does not mean much to them
You can lie to them, or tell the truth
Makes no difference to them
Walk on them if you want
Eat with their forks
Destroy them for the hell of it

5/28/16

“A man feared that he might find an assassin” - Stephen Crane

A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other.

4/8/16

you fit into me - Margaret Atwood

you fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye