Guest poem sent in by Matt Chanoff <mattchanoff@...> 'Lobachevsky' Who made me the genius I am today, The mathematician that others all quote, Who's...
Guest poem sent in by Tanmoy Saha <tanmoysaha@...> 'The Wind' With no companion to my mood, Against the wind as it should be, I walk, but in my solitude ...
Many thanks to Salima Virani for the following correction. martin ... Hey, I read this poem and something about it didn't seem right. Somehow it felt ...
Guest poem submitted by Ameya Nagarajan, <ameya_nn@...>: "Goats and Monkeys" '...even now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.' -Othello The...
Guest poem sent in by Ashwin Menon <ashwin_menon329@...> "The Revenge : A Ballad of the Fleet" At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a...
Guest poem sent in by arvind natarajan <arvindnatarajan@...> 'Climbing You' I want to understand the steep thing that climbs ladders in your throat. I...
"Strugnell's Sonnets (VI)" Let me not to the marriage of true swine Admit impediments. With his big car He's won your heart, and you have punctured mine. I...
Guest poem submitted by Dave Fortin, <46FORTIN@...>: "Forced March" You're crazy. You fall down, stand up and walk again, your ankles and your knees...
'What We Might Be, What We Are' If you were a scoop of vanilla And I were the cone where you sat, If you were a slowly pitched baseball And I were the swing of...
'The Bagel' I stopped to pick up the bagel rolling away in the wind, annoyed with myself for having dropped it as if it were a portent. Faster and faster it...
'Faithless Sally Brown' An old ballad. Young Ben he was a nice young man, A carpenter by trade; And he fell in love with Sally Brown, That was a lady's maid. ...
'Tyre' The wild and windy morning is lit with lurid fire; The thundering surf of ocean beats on the rocks of Tyre, -- Beats on the fallen columns and round the...
"Of Human Knowledge" I know my body's of so frail a kind, As force without, fevers within can kill; I know the heavenly nature of my mind, But 'tis corrupted...
Guest poem sent in by Linda Roberts <Linda.Roberts@...> 'Ample Make This Bed' Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break ...
Guest poem sent in by Alkemygirl@... "I've Dreamed of You So Much" I've dreamed of you so much that you're losing your reality. Is it already too late for...
"A Strike Among the Poets" In his chamber, weak and dying, While the Norman Baron lay, Loud, without, his men were crying, 'Shorter hours and better pay.' Know...
Guest poem sent in by Ajit Narayanan <ajitq@...> 'Carpe Diem Baby' Hit dirt Shake tree Split sky Part sea Strip smile Lose cool Bleed the day And break...
Guest poem submitted by Dave Fortin, <46FORTIN@...>: "To Sleep" What is the charge, young god, what have I done Alone to be denied, in desperate straits, ...