Sun Poems

Poem by Koffi Mtonga

The night falls from interstices of burning clouds, lumbering through the broad sky like grazing herds of sheep.
Along with it a great forlornness through the deep forests of Transylvania
Land marked by Withered Tallowwood branches, that once covered...Read More

I’m not sure what you expected me to be
What path you were hoping that I would follow
You tried to keep my spirit from wandering free
Mould me into someone completely hollow.

I’m not sure how you expected me to be
What plans you...Read More

When I go behind my mind
Am I wanting to explore?
Will I like what I find
Of all my life that's gone before?

All the things I've tried to hide,
All the choices right or wrong,
Are they waiting there inside
Like some half-forgotten song?

And there...Read More

Cross the river Charles
Steady stream of steam the bogs envelop 
Sweaty air resists your passage
Drift to town a short distance down

Woolly summer wonder wrought
All move and sing at once
A billow from his pipe
His bellow calls you up to join him

From...Read More

 It runs across the land;
Golden dust bunnies over wheat fields;
Wind-blown particles from the Sun dirt flows;
It runs across the land;
Brown paper packages;
Antique brass mountain towns;
Midday primrose pass fireflies; 
Soars at the cool full night moon;
Endless Dunes waterfalls aqua...Read More

Snow gathered momentum to a chorus of confusion

	Echoes of tortuous silence

	A vacuum of restless reprieve

Like moist drift sand it spread its treacherous message

	Opened trap doors of innocence

	Coalesced sinkhole’s dredged mud

Answering unspoken questions it decanted crystals of pain

	Touched sentient clouds in...Read More

A full moon punches a hole in the darkness
the stairs (like my bones) creak on my way to bed
I know I shall not sleep well for fear of death.

I am greeted by a blinding new sun-
as it creeps through the...Read More

Pedro was a Mexican who lived in Mexico
Pedro always wore a hat, a big sombrero
Pedro loved the sun he sunbathed every day
He tipped his hat over his eyes to keep sun-rays away

Some cheeky children passing by saw Pedro in repose
Decided...Read More

We fit into some great mystic puzzle.   Live our lives like wooden chessmen.  We move here and there and some disappear.  The journey fills us with experience.  Truly the food of Gods!  We watch...Read More

Oh Babu, relate to us how you stay so still
Followers none do you require
Shun us all like needless chaff

While you dance within fairy fields of your own making.

Laugh you loud at my complaining tomes
Written hand wringing of wrongs laid down
Through...Read More

January
warm days, rain some, sun sometimes....
question  ...Read More

Singing birds emerging.
Pretty flowers are blooming.
Rabbits are hopping.
In spring things start living.
Nests of eggs are cracking.
Gardens are now growing.

Written Date: 1/21/2020...Read More

No more poetry,
say it's not so.
How do I live not writing any more, 
no more words and stories to express.
No more rhymes,
to pass my time.
How about acrostic,
running down the side.
Free verse loved by all,
it is now all gone.
No more poetry,...Read More

Cityscape

The artist’s hand reshapes yesterday
    In straight lines
    Of hard edges -
Peaks of 
    Right angles perfected
    Missing oblique or obtuse –
Claiming the horizon
    In...Read More

All the birthday boys,                                    ...Read More

The snow lay white on Schuman lake
this afternoon. The ice
gleamed in the sun. I went to take
a picture. It looked nice.

White lay on Schuman lake the snow,
I took my phone to capture
where near the bank the cattails grow.
Was careless in...Read More

I just can’t get over this unsettling feeling
 That has my spirit reeling
I just cannot get over this unsettling feeling
That keeps me yearning
If someone had hit me with a stone
Then I would have taken the blow and groan
If someone had...Read More

Two in the morning,
and the long drive home
from an afternoon and night
of Christmas Eve liturgies,
the air is bitterly cold
as my car and I climb
the long, steep hill out of
the Minnesota River Valley of Tears
to our home fifteen minutes away.

Dreams of...Read More

Beautiful world where miracles begin.
World of glory, stunning nature hear her sing.
Rivers flow into oceans, creating life.
The sands hold a million crushed diamonds for us to rest.
Skies are blue and filled with puffs of cotton candy.
Birds surfing on her warm...Read More

This is Uganda
My motherland
My home that I love so much
Boom, boom, boom,boom
Another prominent leader has been shot dead
Who is it?
Abiriga, the yellow man
Panic here, panic there
Some arrests here and there
And that’s it
He is gone
And the killers too are nowhere to...Read More

Dark lines betray
A lover's soul
Shadows cast
Within the tunneled alleyways
Hidden beneath
Sun sparkled peaks
Traps sprung in loneliness
Baited in despair's longing
Scented
With false hope
Watched over
By predatory pain

A rat scurries
In the silence.

John G. Lawless

1/7/2020...Read More

While racing on the rocking horse of youth
Going nowhere closer to the sun or faster there 
When swinging pendulums from Democrat to Republican 
Age picks up the pace, in speed it keeps us in our place
Remains the same with nothing...Read More

ACHIEVING THE DREAM

Write your dreams down and put them in your pocket
Save every penny in case you need that home deposit 
Keeping putting your future bits in the bottom drawer
Put your lets party time; so call friends on total ignore
Keep...Read More

Left and right her hips go when she moves
Brighter than the sun her smile is
To impress any man, she does it with ease
Whenever we are together,I like the way it feels
I swear, she is a star at finesse
Her style, an...Read More

there's a quiescent muse
locked away in a poet's mind
trapped in the hush of silence
that befalls amidst blank pages

his pen sits in a well
suspended inkless of time
unable to scribble words
of romance in verses

no morning rises
risen through his mind
to brighten days
that linger...Read More