A Play of words, poetry in motion
The Venal Muse Poem ………………. by Charles Baudelaire _______________________________________________________________________________________ O muse of my heart, lover of palaces, Will you bring, when January lets loose its sleet And its black evenings without solace, An ember to warm my violet feet? What will revive your bruised shoulders, The nocturnal rays that pierce the shutters? When you cannot feel … Read more…
Weekend Glory Poem ………………. by Maya Angelou _______________________________________________________________________________________ Some clichty folksdon’t know the facts,posin’ and preenin’and puttin’ on acts,stretchin’ their backs. They move into condosup over the ranks,pawn their soulsto the local banks. Buying big carsthey can’t afford,ridin’ around townactin’ bored. If they want to learn how to live life rightthey ought to study me on … Read more…
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today Poem ………………. by Maya Angelou _______________________________________________________________________________________ A Rock, A River, A TreeHosts to species long since departed,Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokensOf their sojourn hereOn our planet floor,Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doomIs lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, … Read more…
THE REMORSE OF THE DEAD Poem ………………. by Charles Baudelaire _______________________________________________________________________________________ O SHADOWY Beauty mine, when thou shalt sleep In the deep heart of a black marble tomb; When thou for mansion and for bower shalt keep Only one rainy cave of hollow gloom; And when the stone upon thy trembling breast, And on thy straight … Read more…
THE OWLS Poem ………………. by Charles Baudelaire _______________________________________________________________________________________ UNDER the overhanging yews, The dark owls sit in solemn state, Like stranger gods; by twos and twos Their red eyes gleam. They meditate. Motionless thus they sit and dream Until that melancholy hour When, with the sun’s last fading gleam, The nightly shades assume their power. From … Read more…
Woman Work Poem ………………. by Maya Angelou _______________________________________________________________________________________ I’ve got the children to tendThe clothes to mendThe floor to mopThe food to shopThen the chicken to fryThe baby to dryI got company to feedThe garden to weedI’ve got shirts to pressThe tots to dressThe can to be cutI gotta clean up this hutThen see about the … Read more…
NO RED used up all the paint no red damn can’t paint no red no rose, no apples, no red limozines running through the night taking queens to kings no red for the joker’s cap no red for her lips she might as well be dead no red and the yellow’s running low for the … Read more…
Gone forever gone as the flower fades, gone forever gone as the oceans dry and earth shrivels gone forever gone as distant seas on distant worlds roll noisily against distant shores unseen and unheard gone forever gone as galaxies collide and the energy waxes and wanes gone forever gone as love in the night as … Read more…
I like you will you like me too I’ll share you and you’ll share me and we’ll all like each other and there will be peace in the world and if anyone unlikes this fine I’m pressing like now you are pressing it too aren’t you well I’m waiting!
Surprise Surprise make your do’s match your says pick up the goddamned garbage “they” can’t always do it for you life, live it draw your head from the keg move damnit mark the globe stroke a tree, a child, a leaf look through your veil of tears hazy though it may be budge yourself, love … Read more…