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Not About Me
You go to sleep one day and wake up the next morning. Seems right, just like yesterday. Exciting, adventuresome, no warning.Read more…The Dream Date
The first day i met you Your smile hit me like a whirlwind And left me breathless Your eyes were wet with passionate compassion Full of love, care and concern I was transfixed and enchanted by it Never had i seen so much tenderness When you spoke, the words came tumbling Out of slightly parted lips; The words were sonorous, like a musical note Or an orchestrated tone I took in your pulchritude and well endowed body Slowly making sure i did not miss the smallest detail Of God's wonderful creationThat did the magic I was thrown into a fantasy A dream of having you close; Of staring into your eyes and Tracing your lips with my finger Of whispering sweet words into your ears Telling you how much i need you The feeling grew intense with each passing day Until The fantasy became a nightmare A wonderful nightmare that lives with me Went everywhere with me and Refused to go away no matter how hard i triedAs i write I do so because i cannot Keep the feeling to myself alone I need to share it with you And with everyone who cares to listen Maybe this will help make my fantasy A reality A reality capped with beautiful scenes of love Your image will always haunt me Just like your charm has weakened my will-power And made me a prisoner of circumstance My shackles would only be broken if you become mine Because you will forever live in my heart of heartsI am a Nigerian and an avid reader who also take great pleasure in putting pen to paper. I believe that with the right expression of words written with my pen people could change for the better and correct or curb some ills eating deep into our system of government or life in general. Poverty and corruption have always being Africa's most dreaded diseases and Nigeria is no exception.Read more…Poetry is Written for a Universal Audience
I’ve been writing, reading, and singing poetry for 46-years, and I’ve never heard anything so silly as poetry cannot be enjoyed universally, or it is strictly made for the poet. It is, if given a good translator: translatable, I’d say perhaps 50% of poetry. And most poets do not write for themselves, they wrote for the world, the last of the truth givers.Read more…Poems Times Six
FridaSpitting out her beauty and disgust,She jiggled ghosts and skeletons,Emptied blood and I was there.I cleaned up her mess,I fed her dog and I made her bed.I watered the garden by the pyramidAnd it blossomed.Read more…African Sun
Your brilliance overwhelms the lands. Heavenly creation. Work of God's hands.Read more…What Use Poetry? Featured Book: Tracings by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
In the Red Engine Press January 2006 newsletter, "Yardspinners and Wordweavers," Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of Tracings, writes:"Auden thought the purpose of poetry is to disenchant. That, my reader, may be why I am not much for rhyme or pretty, though I do like food images, especially sweets. I prefer melancholy, wistful and if a song is sung, let it discord to keep the reader alert make him reconsider.Read more…Seven Deadly Signs of Poetry Scams
In America, poets are held in such low esteem that even the most Honored Representative from Nigeria won’t bother scamming us. Society says to us what Dermot Mulroney says to Julia Roberts in “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” that we are “The pus that infects the mucus that cruds up the fungus that feeds on the pond scum.”Even being cheated by Mr.Read more…Questions and Answers from a Mountaintop
In a description of the nature of human happiness, Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai writes,You ask why I stay on the green mountain,I smile but do not answer; my heart is at ease.A peach blossom is carried away, far, ... by flowing water.Read more…The Old and Dying [A Poem in: In Spanish and English]
When my mother died, it was like blowing out a candle, almost as if she was ready for a vacation. When death comes, I hope it is that simple for me; perhaps living was much harder than dying, at that moment (time and place) for her; Christ being in her corner, she felt much safer, she wanted to go—, she just wasn’t sure if she had enough wind to blow—, to blow out that candle. Thus, it proves: the old and dying are wiser.Read more…Modern Poetry - Poetry for Everyone
Poetry has changed over the years, and modern poetry is not the same eclectic and elitist prose you may remember from your high school reading. Modern poetry is written in plain English, filled with imagery and emotion, and is so much easier to read than poetry of the past. If you haven't read modern poetry, you don't know what you are missing!Read more…To an Old Dead Friend [From Donkeyland-USA]
In the heydays of the early-sixties car-loads of us neighborhood-bums ignorant and arrogant dreamers came crashing through the streets, funny we all remained alive, free-spirited Christian infidels, with stray spirits, many never find the way out, too good to be true.Often I used to loiter past the old church steps to the Mount Airy Bar, time after time like you, waiting for something…. There in that neighborhood we got hooked, like two bears to honey, someone, somewhere praying for our souls, “Where is God, take me from this booze.Read more…Mother's Bedroom [a poem]
In my mother’s bedroom: Thin bottles for perfume, Powder on the little desk, Colorerful ribbons on her bed, Snow-white curtains, A pink nightgown, Indian moccasins with colorful beads. The wooden-varnished floor Has a rustic neatness.The ceiling light is bright, A white glass shade: Still it harbors some insects.Read more…Poetry Is For Writers More Than Readers
What is poetry? The meaning is apparently difficult enough that my dictionary uses circular defining. "The art or work of a poet" is the first entry.Read more…House Without Windows & O Little One (Two Poems)
1) House Without WindowsI am building a house with no windowsAnd a very small door, And my friends all ask me why.Life has been for me full of anxiety—And I care not to let it in any more; So you see, I am making a very small door.And having no windows allowsWhat is outside not to look in— Thus freeing my spirit to rest again…Original published in the Magazine: The Mango Tree, out of India (August/September issue 204], considered by the editor to be an exceptional poem.Read more…Apostle Paul
Well I got an invitation to a kicking party It was BYOB And getting started at 7:00pm It was to last the whole night So I brought my Bible Which started a fight. You say, "Did you win, or lose?" "Or get beat up?Read more…Prophetic Exhortation: Consider Your Ways!
Consider Your Ways That you be not left in a daze When the time of singing has come, And the voice of the Lord is heard Througout our land When the remnant and holy band Arise with power and God's glory To rewrite this nation's story. History I call it His story from beginning to end Yes dear one, God is my friend.Consider your ways Before you find yourself in a maze, Interlocked in a pathway, From which it is too late to move away.Read more…Rose-tinted Glasses [A Two-Part Poem]
World’s Blindness & Poet’s Vigil1) World’s BlindnessMan can’t seem to see He’s divided The worlds in disarray; All us little sheep— Are now fast asleep While Satan’s on His way!In the dead of night He’ll burn daylight: Covered us with blindness; When we do awake, It will be too late Lost somewhere in the stars!#1376 6/24/062) Poet’s VigilPoet, find your way In the outward trail; Quickly, please—today Write, that man my read Images deeply glowing For time is short for all In the global picture now.Read more…Publishing Poetry in Newspapers: Where to Submit
According to Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, "Daily newspapers no longer review poetry. There is, in fact, little coverage of poetry or poets in the general press". (Can Poetry Matter, Dana Gioia, 1991).Read more…The Butterfly Urn [a poem]
“Ashes, that is all I am—looking up at you;whose the fool? “I take up such little space, inside this littleurn— “you’d think I was a butterfly, in acocoon. “Just keep me if you wish, in a corner of aroom in your home: I won’t say much—I got many other thingsto do.Read more…Hurricanes and Poetry Writing
Some of the greatest poet writers off all times have had much adversity in their lives. Perhaps it is this adversity, which helps them see the world differently and makes them take stock of themselves and their surroundings?They say that when people are threatened with a life-threatening illness that often they begin to appreciate life more and the little things such as the smell of a flower or just simply looking at the stars.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Poetry category
- Romeo and Juliet, Sweat, and the Value of Vulgarity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - By: Paul Thomson
Exploring Twain's use of crudeness in the "Romeo and Juliet" scene of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Columbian Exchange Beginning with Spanish Colonization - By: Paul Thomson
Recapping the devastating impact that Spanish Colonization and the Columbian Exchange had on the indigenous civilizations of the New World. - The Whosie-Whatsit War: How the French and Indian War Shaped US History - By: Paul Thomson
Investigating the impact of the French and Indian War on US History. - Treasures of the Heart - By: Clement Sadjere
Poetic piece of adoration to a loved one - Savage Nature: The Life of Ted Hughes - By: Sonu Garg
One of the most important poets of the post-war period, Edward James Hughes (1930-1998), was drawn towards the primitive. He was enchanted by the beauty of the natural world, frequently portraying its cruel and savage temperament in his work as a reflection of his own personal suffering and mystical beliefs - convinced that modern man had lost touch with the primordial side of his nature. - Getting Your Words Out: Winning Free Poetry Contests - By: Bob Burnham
There are two types of poets in the world. The first are those that will take the time to develop their poems, submit them to different areas, and work on every word. Then, there are poets who will write a poem, stick it in their dresser, only to find it five years later and reminisce about the reasoning behind writing the poem. - Poet Laureates of Poker - By: Murphy James
"Poker may be only a game, but it is not a matter of life and death. It's a lot more serious than that." Anthony Holden in "Big Deal. - Facing my Wine, Falling Blossoms have Filled the Folds of my Clothes - By: Gerald Marchewka
Imagine a ragged drunk who smiles as he sees a gleaming moon float gently across a soft gilded stream.In "Amusing Myself", another famous poem, an inebriated glassy eyed Li Bai writes,Facing my wine, I did not see the dusk,But falling blossoms have filled the folds of my clothes,Drunk I rise, and approach the moon in a river,But birds are far away ... and people are few. - Senryu and Haiku - What's the Difference? - By: Edward A. Weiss
Many people who write haiku think they are creating haiku when in fact, they are making senryu. What's senryu you ask? It's exactly like haiku except its subject matter has to do with anything besides nature. - Poetry vs The Internet - By: Chris Campbell
Poetry is the mastery of words in all their variations and subtleies to express in an eloquent manner that which cannot be expressed in silence. Emotions of the heart, a looking glass into the soul, a way to make amends, and a way to build vistas exploring humanity and all it's relationships. Poetry is all this an much more.