Best Amounted Poems

Dreams of The Battle of Thymbra, Lydian-Persian War

In the midst of a battle I awoke thrown
walking over the crimson red dead.
Found and drew the shaft from solid stone
standing on soil blood soaked in red!

My heart afraid but never was it alone
in cold silence stood there...

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Le Rat Noir – Translation of Iris Clayton’s « The Black Rat » by T. Wignesan

(Iris Clayton of the Wiradjuri tribe in New South Wales was born in 1945. One of nine children, six of the elder children were forcibly removed by the authorities and...

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(a poem by Aare Tunde Dawood-Akerele) 
Sympathizing with every motherless child. 

The Pain of Motherlessness 
Is far beyond measure 
Especially for a green mind. 

Begins from the shock of announcement 
To illusion of preparing the corpse 
To agony of witnessing the interment 

Since Mama has...

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I won a battle
I came out on top
Your be happy to hear this
Maybe even jealous
I tried to write the perfect 
poem
I couldn't
They never quite did you 
justice
So I burned all of them
They didn't make me shiver
The perfect poem for you 
should be read as a...

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London’s clock just struck three
A forewarning of events to follow
The gloomy afternoon, an old mans delight
The weather of no concern, working late into the night

The village was in a festive mood
Of good will towards all men
Mistletoe and family gatherings
A twinkle in the eyes of young...

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This Isn’t What I Expected

Lusty-eyed dreams, 
Broken nightmares, 

This is what it has risen from the cream, 
This is not what I’d wished to fare, 

Yet, I’m the bad one, 
The one who no one loved, 

But, that’s not why I’m done, 
The one who...

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Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were put on this earth for
So you start cyber chasing every get-rich-scam or scheme,
cashing out is a lame loser's favorite daily...

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Sinister intentions are met with solitude
A ghastly grin greets the grimy windows
And who knows where the words will begin
But we all know they'll end in some awful rhyme
So forced and juvenile we'll be shaking our heads
And clucking our teeth in frustration
At the pretentiousness of it...

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Sleep well,
For I know the days of stone never gave you much.
And all the Shepherd boys,
All their treasures of gold,
It never amounted to what you could unfold.

Sleep well,
As the sun rises and the moon sets,
So does your heart with no beats,
Just burdens nestled on old...

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We love to make things and keep things.
We collect as much as we can, 
as if to suggest a certainty
in the length we'll have to enjoy whatever it is.
A lot of bother 
about a whole lot of nothing.

And then, like holes that creep inside a...

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There was a house at the end of my street
No-one lived there for very long
During the war, an entire family wiped out
When an aeroplane dropped a bomb

The family living there at the time
Amounted to unlucky thirteen
Mother, father, baby Mary
And ten children in between

They were a...

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A fabulous dance started in Philadelphia.
Around 1960 was when it would occur.
Fans of this dance amounted to a plethora. 
The man who made it famous had a strange moniker.
This recording artist’s name was “Chubby Checker”
His hit song made it to number one back then.
Chubby had...

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Bushels and bushels of apple upon apple,
Canned, frozen, or fresh just couldn't keep up the pace.
Fallen fruit amounted to ripe fermented scrapple,
The solution of course, stared us both in the face. 

If we had the setup we could bottle the stuff,
Taking the essence of the...

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Mr. Leeds was an Englishman from across the sea.
In the New Jersey Pine Barrens he would soon be.
Here he settled down with a local wife.
He wanted many children for a fruitful life.

Mrs. Leeds gratefully accepted the man’s wedding ring.
This couple was blessed with many offspring.
The...

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Oh Nixon what did you do,
Woe will drown and plague you,
Sending more soldiers into Vietnam	
Where you know there is no calm,
Only war, killing and death,
The fueling of Americans sent to
Fight in this pathetic war,
Would no longer be tolerated,
The public were angry and irritated.
Two reporters wanted
To...

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