Best Cohere Poems

His hand is strafing the castellation on his trumpet, the valves moving up down up down like deranged pistons under the random machine gun fire...

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[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The...

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When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as...

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China laws philosophy…
Evil guts explained for evil moods. Much and more are tyrant wills. Easy bounces are Taiwan ways and wills. Taiwan peoples favored are...

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The Story of History  

Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With  the resurrected  sashay’s charmed night
Down in...

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Problems in the mirror may be further than they appear
Don’t fear when they’re near, they’ll soon disappear
help is here, let me give your mind a...

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Villanelle: Whose voice does the non-native English poet verily hear

Whose voice does the non-native English poet verily hear
Words which sound to native English speakers as...

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Milton’s Paradise Lost is a book I sometimes dip into. For modern 
readers it does not lend itself to a quick browse. It’s pretty clear...

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You say no one gets the beauty of fear
It's what reminds us how human we are
The subtle moment when all is so clear
That from birth...

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Two minutes left, then midnight's here.
	You know my dad has made it clear,
		tho we're engaged, for sure, my dear,
			to curfew rules, we must adhere.

Just hold...

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Ive developed a bit of a fetish, dear,
The smelling of objects of a ***** kind.
"*****", the collective perspective of a selected few
Let me address the...

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The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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World is so beautiful,
But view through dazzling eyes; 
Supple heart softens,
Kneels before the virtues, 
Non can deny,
The beauty thou hast;
It isn't about eyes, 
Neither cheek,...

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The twittering of the birds singsonged by 
As the mum night kissed the new spousal dawn
The daybreak entity by the beadsmen allegiance
Pour forth by the...

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Two societies, two cultures, two ways, two worlds, 
But the same mechanisms, glares, shuns and goals; 
No-one knew the other, but the church had words,...

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