"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...
Guest poem sent in by Aseem <mithwarg@...> 'Give All To Love' Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit,...
Guest poem sent in by Ramesh MV <MV.Ramesh@...> 'Poem for Everyone' I will present you parts of my self slowly if you are patient and tender. I will...
Guest poem sent in by Priya Chakravarthi <peechramji@...> 'Absences' Smear out the last star. No lights from the islands Or hills. In the great square ...
William Grey <wgrey@...> sends this in as a followup of sorts to yesterday's poem... 'As Well as They Can' As well as it can, the hooked fish while it...
Guest poem sent in by Jim Ellis <Elsink@...> 'At Funchal (Island of Madeira)' On the beach there's a seafood place, simple, a shack thrown up by survivors...
Guest poem sent in by Matthew Stillman <mstillman@...> 'To The Supreme Being' The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed, If Thou the spirit give by...
Guest poem sent in by Aseem <mithwarg@...> 'Resignation' I love you because the earth turns round the sun because the North wind blows north sometimes ...
"Let Me Die a Youngman's Death" Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holywater death not a famous-last-words peaceful out of...
Guest poem sent in by Aseem <mithwarg@...> 'suppose' suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head. young death sits in a cafe smiling, a piece...
Guest poem submitted by Anil C. Mohan <anil_c_mohan@...>: "jump mama" pretty summer day grammama sittin on her porch easy rockin her grandbaby in her...
Guest poem sent in by Cheryl Ward <seaward44@...> 'Offering and Rebuff' I could love you as dry roots love rain. I could hold you as branches in the...
Guest poem sent in by Aseem <mithwarg@...> "My Death" If I'm lucky, I'll be wired every whichway in a hospital bed. Tubes running into my nose. But try...
Guest poem submitted by Vivek Nallur <nallur@...>: "A Cradle Song" The angels are stooping Above your bed; They weary of trooping With the whimpering...
"A Minuet of Mozart's" Across the dimly lighted room The violin drew wefts of sound, Airily they wove and wound And glimmered gold against the gloom. I watched...
'Theme for English B' The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you -- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that...
Guest poem submitted by Jeff Huo, <jeffshuo@...>: With your indulgence, I would like to present the commentary first, and then the poem: ===== References...