Guest poem submitted by Arun Simha, <asimha@...>: "Within You Without You" We were talking - about the space between us all And the people - who hide...
"Gus: The Theatre Cat" Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss To pronounce,...
Back after a period of net deprivation - thanks to Thomas for holding the
fort.
"Ashes of Life"
Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;...
"The Bookworm" A moth, I thought, munching a word. How marvellously weird! a worm Digesting a man's sayings -- A sneakthief nibbling in the shadows At the...
Guest poem submitted by Matt Chanoff, <mattchanoff@...>: "The Prologue to 'Sweeney Todd'" [A Man:] Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd His skin was pale...
"Concerto for Double Bass" He is a drunk leaning companionably Around a lamp post or doing up With intermittent concentration Another drunk's coat. He is a...
Guest poem sent in by Rajarshi Bandyopadhyay <rajb@...> "How Doth the Little Crocodile" How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour...
Guest poem submitted by Gerry Rowe, <gerirowe@...>: "Chain Lightning" Some turnout, a hundred grand Get with it we'll shake his hand Don't bother to...
Guest poem submitted by Salima Virani <svirani@...>: "Sit" Sit, drink your coffee here; your work can wait awhile. You're twenty-six, and still have...
'Wynken, Blynken, and Nod' A Dutch Lullaby Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of...
Guest poem sent in by Salima Virani <svirani@...> 'Long Distance II' Though my mother was already two years dead Dad kept her slippers warming by the...
Guest poem sent in by aravind <v_aravind@...> 'Raglan Road' On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a...
'The Beginning' Some day I shall rise and leave my friends And seek you again through the world's far ends, You whom I found so fair (Touch of your hands and...
'Reveille' Wake: the silver dusk returning Up the beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands upon the eastern rims. Wake: the vaulted...
Happy new year! 'Chapter Heading' For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devil's tunes Shivering home to pray;...
Guest poem sent in by Neha Kumar <skiesofblue@...> 'The Darkling Thrush' I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs...
'The March of the Dead' The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet! We watched the troops returning, through our tears; There was triumph, triumph,...
Thanks to Paul Stimpson, who suggested this as a followup to Poem #980 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' Now when I was a young man I carried me pack And I...
'The General Public' "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man said. A dry smile creased his...
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