MORNING POEMS

If Only I Could, I Would

If only I could, I would

My mnd roaming with yr name on it
My mind taking a flashback on u,on us
.....

Maite Lemekwane

Quite A Habit....

Here comes the morning;
Blue sky, lush grass, dew drops
Yet thee not beholding my eyes;
Here comes the noon;
.....

Aabby

Dancing Shadows

Dancing shadows

Like a dream I found you
And you found me
.....

Maite Lemekwane

Good Morning!

Good morning to you! Great morning to you!
Today is a new gift from up above
For we are born again each morning we wake up
So be sincerely thankful for this gift that you have
.....

Ma. Cristina Colima

It Struck Me Every Day

It struck me every day
The lightning was as new
As if the cloud that instant slit
And let the fire through.
.....

Emily Dickinson

Stuck In A Tornado

Every day you wake up, every morning,
Even tho you did not realize that it's still the same day,
You realized that you're in a reoccurring cycle,
Every day the same movement,
.....

Richmond Gellez

The Slow Love Song...

Woke up with an empty feeling,
Missing you in my surrounding.
In my bed I kept on wishing,
Hoping I'd never stop dreaming.
.....

Az Mo

How Could You

The one I trusted with all my soul
How can you?
I trusted you,I loved you
I thought i knew you
.....

Maite Lemekwane

Your Death

You lived for a short while and then you left me alone
I was not prepared for your demise
It came with its shock
And it still shocks
.....

Shez Whiney

African Sun

When I was four years old
My village mates and I
Used to gossip
About the African sun
.....

Ibrahim Bangura[cleffy]

Studio Composition

Cup of Words

Crystal sphere sitting
Before child like statue
.....

Joseph Mayo Wristen

A Servant To Servants

I didn't make you know how glad I was
To have you come and camp here on our land.
I promised myself to get down some day
And see the way you lived, but I don't know!
.....

Robert Frost

They And I

Morning.
I am the rising sun.
They bow to me,
They even shower
.....

Kanwar Dinesh Singh

Stuck In Between

The fine shades colliding with green
Just stuck in time, serenity in between.
Chills in the morning sun, a smiling
Day laughing back to my screen
.....

Az Mo

A Friend That Is Far Away

*_A poem for a friend far away_*

A special friend that is far away
one with a smile like the morning sun
.....

Nesdon Cluston Keil Charles

Little Lies

Life like lies
impeaches man of little lies
why isn't she perfect that man should lie.
go tell life I have a light to lite
.....

Matthew Francis

The Cuckoo-clock

Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight,
By a sure voice that can most sweetly tell,
How far off yet a glimpse of morning light,
And if to lure the truant back be well,
.....

William Wordsworth

Silence

Where and what is silence ?
In the stillness of nature,
In the dark night with the glowing moon,
In the cold grave,
.....

Salma Hatim

Love Street

I also took grief and suffering in love.
Ask me, what types of streets that I have passed.

What type of fire on my chest
.....

Shariq Lone

The Barefoot Boy

Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!
With thy turned-up pantaloons,
And thy merry whistled tunes;
.....

John Greenleaf Whittier

New Dawn

Night prawns on our hope and belongings,
And left us hopeless and stranded.
New dawn renews our hope,
And makes all new and beautiful.
.....

Borklo Solomon

Wilderness

The clutter and the clatter,
The morning dew drops drip,
The stormy weather,
The taste in each coffee sip.
.....

Az Mo

Tell Me, O Swan, Your Ancient Tale

Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale.
From what land do you come,
O Swan? to what shore will you fly?
Where would you take your rest,
.....

Kabir

The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

THE ARGUMENT

RINTRAH roars and shakes his
fires in the burdenM air,
.....

William Blake

Million Man March Poem

The night has been long,
The wound has been deep,
The pit has been dark,
And the walls have been steep.
.....

Maya Angelou

Dear Love

Here alone it makes me feel bad.
Mostly when i keep thinking about the plans we had, sad.
My heart is broken, no craft maker would even fix it.
Am devastated,
.....

Blessings Mitembo

16 Minutes Of Life

16 minutes of life
He is fidgeting uncontrollably, breathing slowly but the alarm clocks harps happily.
Indicating 16 minutes of more pain..
Through the chaos of nerves in his brain he calculates the time, revaluates his plan and awaits death.
.....

Riya Saluja

Michael: A Pastoral Poem

If from the public way you turn your steps
Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll,
You will suppose that with an upright path
Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent
.....

William Wordsworth

Hunted

Oh, why do they hunt so hard, so hard, who have
no need of food?
Do they hunt for sport, do they hunt for hate, do
they hunt for the lust of blood?
.....

Don Marquis

In Mars, What Avatar?

“In Vishnu-land, what avatar?”
-BROWNING.

Perchance the dying gods of Earth
.....

Don Marquis

Gone But Not Forgotten

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
.....

Kareem Azeez

Up And-down

The sun is gone down
And the moon's in the sky
But the sun will come up
And the moon be laid by.
.....

George Macdonald

The Spider And The Fly

“Will you walk into my parlor?”
Said a spider to a fly;
“'Tis the prettiest little parlor
That ever you did spy.
.....

Mary Howitt

Morning

I've got to tell you
how I love you always
I think of it on grey
mornings with death
.....

Frank O'hara

Morning Express

Along the wind-swept platform, pinched and white,
The travellers stand in pools of wintry light,
Offering themselves to morn's long, slanting arrows.
The train's due; porters trundle laden barrows.
.....

Siegfried Sassoon

Vellore Days

Two pairs of notebook, four pairs of dress,
Matching top with footwear was a worry, BUT there was no stress.

Waking up for 8 Am class was hard, running to SJT was a pain,
.....

Roshni Kumari

Will There Really Be A "morning"?

101

Will there really be a "Morning"?
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
.....

Emily Dickinson

Cold Morning

Through an accidental crack in the curtain
I can see the eight o'clock light change from
charcoal to a faint gassy blue, inventing things

.....

Eamon Grennan

To Ottilie

YOU remember, I suppose,
How the August sun arose,
And how his face
Woke to trill and carolette
.....

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Old Huntsman

I've never ceased to curse the day I signed
A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece.
'Twas a bad deal all round; and dear enough
It cost me, what with my daft management,
.....

Siegfried Sassoon

Lyrebirds

Over the west side of the mountain,
that-s lyrebird country.
I could go down there, they say, in the early morning,
and I-d see them, I-d hear them.
.....

Judith Wright

Remembrances

Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one
And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh on
I tried to call them back but unbidden they are gone
Far away from heart and eye and for ever far away
.....

John Clare

Moving On

The wounds will heal,
With hours that pass.
What you feel,
Spills from your glass.
.....

Az Mo

Morning

We stood among the boats and nets;
We saw the swift clouds fall,
We watched the schooners scamper in
Before the sudden squall;-
.....

Don Marquis

Rest

O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth;
Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth
With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.
.....

Christina Rossetti

Brave

I think it's brave that you
get up in the morning even
if your soul is weary and
your bones ache for a rest.
.....

Minu Chaudhary

The Sunshine Cat

They did this to her, the men who know her, the man
She loved, who loved her not enough, being selfish
And a coward, the husband who neither loved nor
Used her, but was a ruthless watcher, and the band
.....

Kamala Das

My Sunshine

When I woke up and couldn't behold d light that the sun gives,
I couldn't help but think about you
Because the sun wasn't here to remind me of your smile,Smile this morning ,I want you to smile this morning because your smile brings hope to everything around you,Am missing your smile,missing your smile early this day.

.....

Blue Poet

As If I Controlled The Time

It was a rainy day, I’s returning home,
The road was not lonely, yet I’s alone.
I was wetting, as no umbrella I’d then.
I was shivering almost wetting in rain.
.....

Balaram Sarkar

Unfaded Love

When you close your eyes
I see the beauty of a real black woman
blazing like the bright light from heaven

.....

Tafsir Fofanah