Tell Apart Poems

Today is Hot

...Today is hot; tomorrow, not.
This summer’s been like this a lot.

It’s tough to know which way to go
When making outdoor plans and so,

You must choose twice, that’s my advice,
For just one th...

God Is Always There To Guide The Lost

...While I was out walking one sunny day.
I turned into the forest, and I lost my way.
It was dark and cold. I soon felt a chill.
Next, I heard a sound that made me feel ill.
I went from full sunlig...

Where is My Hannah Arendt?

...A make-up artist?  Um … no thanks.
That’s not my kind of courtship caper.
I want the girl who wrote a paper
on Massachusetts’ failing banks.

You can keep your belly-dancer.
The nimbleness that...

Tanka

...I stare at the sky
all day long, wondering if
I'll last or be 
gone, the ocean tides rise till neck
can't tell apart life and death...

Seyda Mint Sheikh, A Mother Plus

...
In the garden of memories, a bloom so divine. 
A mother's love, an eternal lifeline.
Reading the holy book, a melody that dawdles on. 
She was holy and a saint like persona. 

Through her Guid...

A Fisherman's Catch Some Thrown Back

...I don't have much luck with women
Although I've had a few
It's not always a pick and choose
More of ''He looks doisy he'll do''.       
They have been as skinny as a lat
Or like the cat who got ...

Weakling

... Written for the contest "Poe in the style of Plath" sponsored by Tom Woody 

 I am a weakling against supremely star-studded skies
Where stolen streams of light are not enough for it t...

I Ran

...I ran
To escape
An evil
Year
After
Year
Becoming tired
As I could not
Out run it
So
I stopped
To face it
And die
It stripped me
Of dignity
It humiliated me
It mocked me
Spat in my fa...

There Go the Sundersons

...There go the Sundersons, someone said with a laugh
It was Norris, the notoriously crotchety old man giraffe
The triplets, riding their bike, a sight to see said a frog.
The ostrich twins were irri...

Dr Harold Shipman

...The mind is the devil, not the heart,
when in doctor’s garbs, can’t tell apart,
an engaging smile, then the death blow,
some died real quick, some very slow.

the touch was soft, voice saintly g...

The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity

...When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world 
when its concomitant panic and pain freak out
it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled
e'en as proctective gears barel...

If There Was No Poetry

...If there was no poetry. . .
the flowers all would wither and lose their pretty hues.
No songs would we hear playing -neither happy lyrics nor the blues.

If there was no poetry. . 
the birds...

Fragment

...And if my feet don't find their way,
if my hands
can no longer grasp what they want,
if my ears cannot tell apart
the songs on the favourite album
and my mind forgets that it used to focus—
may...

Pen Your Voice

...Voices from a poets pen 
Soft ones, loud ones...now and then 
Speak your tongue, let it be told 
Let us hear your heart unfold 

Pen on paper how you feel 
Then show us all...poet's zeal 
Told...

Polemics and Theatrics

...Cult and trend and recalcitrance 
I'm from the streets and have seen things
But this I have to admit is beyond me
It's hunting season and they are all in
Pontificating politicians demanding penan...

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