'The Explorer' "There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- broke my land and sowed my crop -- Built...
Guest poem sent in by Cristina Gazzieri <gazzieri@...> 'Six Significant Landscapes' I An old man sits In the shadow of a pine tree In China. He sees...
Guest poem sent in by Aseem <mithwarg@...> 'At a Lecture' Since mistakes are inevitable, I can easily be taken for a man standing before you in this room...
"Epitaph for the Race of Man: X" The broken dike, the levee washed away, The good fields flooded and the cattle drowned, Estranged and treacherous all the...
Guest poem sent in by Deepak Srinivasan <Deepak.Srinivasan@...> 'One Cigarette' No smoke without you, my fire. After you left, your cigarette glowed on...
Aseem <mithwarg@...> 'from The Estranging Sea' 1 Why? You want to know why? Go down to the shacks then, like shattered staves bound in old wire at the...
Guest poem sent in by Arun Sripati <sparun@...> 'Tao Te Ching: Verse 57' If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to...
Guest poem submitted by Aseem Kaul, <mithwarg@...>: "Still Falls the Rain" The Raids, 1940. Night and Dawn. Still falls the Rain--- Dark as the world of...
Guest poem submittedy by William Grey, <wgrey@...>: "I Met a Lady in the Wood" I met a lady in the wood. No mortal maid, I knew, was she; She was no...
Guest poem submitted by Nisha Susan, <nisha_s_a@...>: "To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only" My valiant helper, a small-sized...
Guest poem submitted by Deepak Srinivasan, <Deepak.Srinivasan@...>: "Two Songs Of A Fool" I A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And...
'From Beppo' L. But to my tale of Laura, --- for I find Digression is a sin, that by degrees Becomes exceeding tedious to my mind, And, therefore, may the...
Guest poem sent in by Aseem <mithwarg@...> 'Odeon a Grecian Urn' Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness! Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, ...
Rounding out Parker's "Trio of Lyrical Treats" 'One Sung of Thee who Left the Tale Untold' One sung of thee who left the tale untold, Like the false dawns...
We don't often run two consecutive poems by the same poet, but after my commentary yestarday, Amulya <amulyagk@...> was moved to offer this in defense of...
Guest poem sent in by a contributor who wishes to remain anonymous 'Lament for Thomas MacDonagh' He shall not hear the bittern cry In the wild sky, where he is...
"Mrs. Thatcher" Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep? Do you wake, Mrs Thatcher, in your sleep? Do you weep like a sad willow? On your Marks and Spencer's...
Guest poem sent in by Cristina Gazzieri <gazzieri@...> 'Neutral Tones ' We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden...
Guest poem sent in by Hema Manicka <hema.mv@...> 'The Coromandel Fishers' Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light, The wind...
Guest poem sent in by Neville Clemens <nevclemens@...> "Temporary Well Being" The pond is plenteous The land is lush, And having turned off the news I am...
'When I Was Three' When I was three, I had a friend Who asked me why bananas bend, I told him why, but now I'm four I'm not so sure... -- Richard Edwards I was...
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