Affaires Poems

Charge d'affaires struck by lightning bolt

While high falutin dip low matt
flying his kite insurgents
planned coup d'etat
clear out of blue, a devilish
forked, jagged, knifed
dagger "O" type electric current licked

more'n the pants off harried envoy
clear rants heard
all the way to Timbuktu
damn donnybrook...Read More

Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Three by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an awareness of the imaginative possibilities...Read More

Blue Monday!  Poppycock.
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned Poet


It’s Monday shout hip hip hooray.
You’re alive on this now new day.
A start of week, it is, it’s true.
Open your minds all of you.

Many laying,...Read More

As a child, a happy baby boy or daddys pretty little girl you were always so eager to move forward,
you moved, crawled, waddled,even rolled all before you could even say a word,
from the time you let go of there hands,
you...Read More