Best Bu Poems

The sun plunged
In the space of silence,
The summer has been extended
In a slow wandering ...

The orb has been drunk,
Gradually, by fringes.
> We did not hear...

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I.

Oh please, not to fade so fast into the afternoon
The one that is scattering in a goldenly swooning loneliness
The one that is shattering at a...

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I crave sticky butter mint balls

Liquorice allsorts from the candy stalls
Orange smarties,  my  favourite treat
Violet crumbles I just love to eat
English toffees for...

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?From a world afar , above tje skies brightest  star.
As an angel you uon your cloud sit,
&  given your wings , only made...

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:) now this is what Im talking bout .... nothin iz 2 uncommon when all you got 2 eat iz Ramen 
noodles 4 all y'all...

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A Day In An Ordinary Life

    By Edmund Siejka


Watching TV
More out of boredom
Than anything else
He allowed his imagination  
To drift
Back 
To...

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I can only speake for myself now, so if it don't apply [to you] let it fly.
Though I'm not the only one, facing tribulation. So...

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In the thickets of the forests and grooves
On the paths through the deserts and the wild
Walked in the robe of nobility
The one who defied the...

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The silence of a Sunday
with not a car or plane,
just the earth noises
at four in the morning.
When two hundred breaths
with two hundred thoughts
can be allowed...

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NNEM AMAKA

Nnem amaka,
Nnem bu udala mmicha,
Ukwu nwanyi Owerri;
O bu ihe madu nile na eri.
Nnem bu ukwu nnu na mmanu anu.
Ezigbo nwayi oma na ala ezigbo,
Pino-pino...

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There's a first time for everything
For the good and bad
That's probably why I got
Addicted to this razor blade in my hand

Not to it itself
But to...

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GRANDMA’S ROCKING CHAIR  Pt 1
 
Grandma sits in her rocking chair,
Wisps of silver in her hair.
She sits me on her voluptuous lap,
As tales of...

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Do you ever consider the wording of core
Do you ever believe that this world will be whole
Do you ever redeem all the lies you have...

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placid pond
in the moon's reflection—
kabuki dance

1-13-22

HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Damned I-Be 

Thirteen Syllables or Less Contest 3-29-16
Sponsor Timothy Hicks

*Kabuki, traditional...

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Mma (Beauty)


Izunna Okafor dere ab? a


Kere kere ka ? na-egbu
?b?nad? n’anya onye ìsì
Onye chi ya g?zìrì
O were nke ya, mebe ngàlá

Mma ad?gh? n’ótú ?n?tsha
Maka na...

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