I Am Waiting : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Am Waiting I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waitingfor a rebirth of wonderand I … Continue reading I Am Waiting : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Am Waiting I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waitingfor a rebirth of wonderand I … Continue reading I Am Waiting : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Self Portrait It doesn’t interest me if there is one Godor many gods.I want to know if you belong or … Continue reading Self Portrait : David Whyte
The Stolen Branch In the night we shall go into steala flowering branch. We shall climb over the wallin the … Continue reading The Stolen Branch : Pablo Neruda
सिर्फ तुम्हारे लिए… सिमोन (4) जानती हो सिमोन, मैं अकसर सोचती हूँसोचती क्या, चाहती हूँ पहुँचाऊँकुछ प्रतियाँ ‘द सेकंड सेक्स’ … Continue reading सिर्फ तुम्हारे लिए… सिमोन : शुभम श्री
Home Give me a home that isn’t mine, where I can slip in and out of rooms without a trace, … Continue reading Home : Arundhathi Subramaniam
A Sea of Foliage Girds our Garden round Sonnet.- Baugmaree A sea of foliage girds our garden round, But not … Continue reading A Sea of Foliage Girds our Garden round
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Translator’s Note: Padmanabha: Lord Vishnu from whose navel the lotus flower is believed to emerge source : poetryinternational.org Continue reading Daily Musings : 89
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उषा प्रात: नभ था बहुत नीला शंख जैसे भोर का नभ; राख से लीपा हुआ चौका; अभी गीला पड़ा है … Continue reading उषा : Daybreak
Gift O my love, what gift of mine Shall I give you this dawn? A morning song? But morning does … Continue reading Gift : Rabindranath Tagore
Digital artwork by Nehal Continue reading Daily Musings : 78
Digital artwork by Nehal Continue reading Daily Musings : 77
Digital artwork by Nehal Continue reading Daily Musings : 76
Digital artwork by Nehal Continue reading Daily Musings : 75
Megan Married Herself She arrived at the country mansion in a silver limousine.She’d sent out invitations and everything:her name written … Continue reading Megan Married Herself : Caroline Bird
What The Mapmaker Ought To Know On this island things fidget.Even history.The landscape does not sitwillinglyas if behind an easelholding … Continue reading What The Mapmaker Ought To Know : Kei Miller
Excerpts from the Poem : IIINarrator Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree,Putting the decorations back … Continue reading For The Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, excerpts.
Wish you all A Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! ~ Nehal In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells] Ring out, wild … Continue reading Ring out, wild bells : Alfred Lord Tennyson
Infinite Stars The infinite stars are twinkling—The dark blue sky,Why have I never heard their whispers?In the tranquility,And in the … Continue reading Poems : Bing Xin
Stones I bring them from the mountains,from the sea, from the edgeof streams and look at them,heft them, hold them … Continue reading Stones : David Wagoner
AUTUMN SUMMARY In evening’s dome each bird is a point of memory.It’s amazing sometimes how the years’ fervorreturns, returns without … Continue reading Autumn Summary : Julio Cortázar
Woman with Eyes Wide Open life plays in the plaza with the self I never was and here I am … Continue reading Woman with Eyes Wide Open : Alejandra Pizarnik
The Snail sets . what it knows of this . … Continue reading The Snail : Souvankham Thammavongsa
A Prayer at the Bridge between the Centuries War is consigned to history Disaster to memory The scars and tears … Continue reading A Prayer at the Bridge between the Centuries
“Tell me, what else should I have done?” – (This line is from a poem by Mary Oliver). “Tell me, what … Continue reading A poem : Claire Conroy
MUSIC Let me go where’er I will,I hear a sky-born music still:It sounds from all things old,It sounds from all … Continue reading Music : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middle Class Blues We can’t complain.We’re not out of work.We don’t go hungry.We eat.The grass grows,the social product,the fingernail,the past.The … Continue reading Middle Class Blues : मध्यम वर्ग का गाना
Everything Is Going To Be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the … Continue reading Everything Is Going To Be All Right : Derek Mahon
A Song For Those Who Know Something must be done right awaythat much we knowbut of course it’s too soon … Continue reading A Song For Those Who Know
તમારા સૌનો ખૂૂબ ખૂબ આભાર, આ સફરમાં સાથે રહેવા માટે. વિઝીટ, વ્યૂ, લાઈક, કમેન્ટ…બધ્ધું જ આવકાર્ય છે, અહીં આવતા રહેજો, … Continue reading ‘inmymindinmyheart’ ના ૬ વર્ષ…
Wind-Up Doll Even more, oh yes,one can remain silent even more. Inside eternal hoursone can fix lifeless eyeson the smoke … Continue reading Wind-Up Doll : Forugh Farrokhzad
I wanted to share with you all my feelings of gratitude as my blog completes six years. It is because … Continue reading Six years of sharing what is ‘inmymindinmyheart’
Digital artwork by Nehal Continue reading Daily Musings : 30 Rainer Maria Rilke
I am hereIn me, sometimes.I speakmyself, sometimes.I see in the mirrorMy face, sometimes.I walk on the grassOf this planet, sometimes.I … Continue reading Orientation : Nehal
I Will Greet The Sun Again I am sending-my warmest greetings to the sun,and to the tender rivers that streamed … Continue reading I Will Greet The Sun Again
How you lost yourself Hey, you.yes you.Wake up! Where have you been, all this while?Staring away at screens, your conscience … Continue reading How you lost yourself
The Passionate Sword Temper my spirit, oh Lord, Burn out its alloy, And make it a pliant steel for thy wielding, Not a … Continue reading The Passionate Sword : Jean Starr Untermeyer
On the Passage of Days Events follow events In close succession Time is A heavily knotted string, Swift and dangerous, … Continue reading On the Passage of Days : Anuradha Bhattacharya
आरम्भ में केवल शब्द थाकिन्तु उसकी सार्थकता थी श्रुति बनने मेंकि वह किसी से कहा जाय मौन को टूटना अनिवार्य थाशब्द … Continue reading सृजन का शब्द
Parable Some fishermen pulled a bottle from the deep. It held a piece of paper, with these words: “Somebody save … Continue reading Parable – Wislawa szymborska
Back from a Walk Murdered by the sky.Among the forms that move toward the snakeand the forms searching for crystalI … Continue reading Back From A Walk – Federico García Lorca
Over the angular lily that adorns the cadaverous pillow; over the hardened bachelor pain of lying like a beardless congregationist … Continue reading The Tear- Ramón López Velarde
When It Is Given You to Find a Smile When It Is Given You to Find a Smile in the … Continue reading When It Is Given You to Find a Smile
A Fool For Evergreen A little bit of fool in meHides behind my inmost treeAnd pops into the narrow pathI … Continue reading A Fool For Evergreen- James A. Emanuel
Early Spring Once more the Heavenly PowerMakes all things new,And domes the red-plowed hillsWith loving blue;The blackbirds have their wills,The … Continue reading Early Spring
Anushka, she is a medical student and young, upcoming poet. There is depth, sensitivity and philosophical undertones in her expressions. … Continue reading Blue and Green
Jasmines Your scent is in the room. Swiftly it overwhelms and conquers me! Jasmines, night jasmines, perfect of perfume, Heavy … Continue reading Jasmines – Claude McKay
Poet As Fisherman I fish for words to say what I fish for, half-catch sometimes. I have caught little pan … Continue reading Poet As Fisherman – James A. Emanuel
Enslaved Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, For weary centuries despised, oppressed, Enslaved and lynched, denied a human … Continue reading Two Poems – Claude McKay
I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown I live, I die, I burn, I drown I endure at once … Continue reading I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown – Delmira Agustini
When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take … Continue reading When You Are Old – તું વૃધ્ધ થાય ત્યારે…
Come thou, thou last one, whom I recognize, unbearable pain throughout this body’s fabric: as I in my spirit burned, … Continue reading Death – Rainer Maria Rilke
Asleep and awake Asleep and awake, I wake. Never having written What I have to say. No poem offers of … Continue reading Asleep and Awake – MURIEL RUKEYSER
Here is a poem, written by my daughter for a competition. I would like to share it with you all. … Continue reading Writing the best poem ever
A Moment Of Happiness A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in … Continue reading A Moment Of Happiness – Rumi
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon’s eyelid later spread … Continue reading Tonight No Poetry Will Serve – Adrienne Rich
The Tule Fog Just as the sun rises and disappearsBehind the tall city landmarksThey live and hide, out in … Continue reading The Tule Fog – Manisha Joshi
Still I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in … Continue reading Still I Rise – Maya Angelou
Like winds of seas, you toss the shutters, Like winds of deserts, you sing: ‘Behold! You’re mine forever! I’m ancient … Continue reading Non-Love: અનાસક્તિ : Zinaida Gippius
THE GRASS IS REALLY LIKE ME The grass is also like me it has to unfurl underfoot to fulfill itself … Continue reading घास तो मुझ जैसी है – The Grass is really like me : Kishwar Naheed
We Wear the Mask We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— … Continue reading We Wear the Mask- Paul Laurence Dunbar
– Paul Éluard Born: 14 December 1895, Saint-Denis, France Died: 18 November 1952, Charenton-le-Pont, France (The British Royal Air Force … Continue reading Liberté – Paul Éluard
A poem slumbers in my heart, at the centre of my being, and a dim mirror tries to shape it … Continue reading A poem / કવિતા – Jameela Nishat
“Poetry,” she explained, “is my understanding of the universe, my way of relating to things, my participation in reality, my … Continue reading I feel the dead – મરણને અનુભવું છું
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Sophia de Mello Poem translated by Ana Silva, original poem by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.… Continue reading Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen ‘Death’ – A Translation
Autumn Landscape Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves. Praise whoever sketched this desolate scene: the lush, dark canopies … Continue reading Autumn Landscape – Ho Xuan Huong
The Sparrow A little bird, with plumage brown, Beside my window flutters down, A moment chirps its little strain, Ten … Continue reading The Sparrow : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Thou Art My Lute Thou art my lute, by thee I sing,— My being is attuned to thee. Thou settest … Continue reading Thou Art My Lute – Paul Laurence Dunbar
Lovely And Lifelike A face at the end of the day A cradle in day’s dead leaves A bouquet of … Continue reading Lovely And Lifelike – Paul Eluard
I Only Wish To Love You I only wish to love you A storm fills the valley A fish the … Continue reading I Only Wish To Love You – મારી એકમાત્ર ઈચ્છા
Before I go I’m supposed to get a last wish: Generous reader burn this book It’s not at all what … Continue reading I Take Back Everything I’ve Said – જતાં પહેલાં
Merry Christmas to all of you! What I love about Christmas is a wonderful feeling of festivities and cheer in … Continue reading The Joy Of Little Things – Robert William Service
I loved you; and perhaps I love you still, The flame, perhaps, is not extinguished; yet It burns so quietly … Continue reading Poem – Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Poetry is a mirror to our day to day life, we all know. As a part of the ongoing 5th … Continue reading Poems on Anger
The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. … Continue reading How happy is the little Stone – સુખની કવિતા
દુઃખ, પીડા પછી બીજી સર્વવ્યાપી લાગણી છે… પ્રેમની. પ્રેમ જ સમગ્ર સૃષ્ટિની રચનાનો પાયો છે. સૃષ્ટિના ઉદ્ભવમાં આ અગમ્ય, અદમ્ય … Continue reading Love’s Philosophy- પ્રેમની ફિલોસૉફી
My dear readers, As part of ongoing celebrations on completing five years, I posted poems written by famous writers of … Continue reading I am in “now” like a hanging Dewdrop from a petal!
Completing my formative years here! It’s still unbelievable when I look at the number! I pinch my self, is it … Continue reading Celebrating Five Years…
The Last Toast Whether we like it or not, We have only three choices: Yesterday, today and tomorrow. And not … Continue reading The Last Toast – Nicanor Parra
Without knowing my number, enclosed by walls and borders, I walk around with a prisoner’s moon and perpetual shadow chained … Continue reading Loneliness of Cities – Jorge Carrera Andrade
To Madame Curie Oft have I thrilled at deeds of high emprise, And yearned to venture into realms unknown, Thrice … Continue reading To Madame Curie – ALICE MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON
The Sunflower Bring me the sunflower here and let me set it in the parched briny soil of my own … Continue reading The Sunflower – Eugenio Montale
Knowing Robs Us Knowing robs us of wonder. Had it not ripped apart the fearful robes of primordial Night to … Continue reading Knowing Robs Us- Chinua Achebe
Silent Mark another day is here and my hands are still covered with a mantle of stoic ink words scribbled … Continue reading Silent Mark – Cecilia Borromeo
Every night I sneak out Into the world, The world of clones. My body turns into a figure I barely … Continue reading World of Clones – Nehal
I go through the snow. I closed My eyes, but the light can still get through My porous eyelids, and … Continue reading SUMMER AGAIN – Yves Bonnefoy
Walking, snow falling, it is possible to focus at various distances in turn on separate flakes, sharply engage the attention … Continue reading Living By – Ben Jonson
O Lord, Let It Rain Drench the Desert dunes Let the green grass sprout If only my sweet beloved would … Continue reading O Lord, Let It Rain – मौला मी वसाये
તમે જીવવા માટે શું કરો છો એ જાણવામાં મને રસ નથી મારે જાણવું છે કે તમારા હૃદયમાં ઊંડી કોઈ આરત … Continue reading આમંત્રણ – The Invitation
काश ऐसा होता कि ईश्वर मेरे बिस्तर के पास रखे पानी भरे गिलास के अन्दर से बैंगनी प्रकाश पुंज-सा अचानक … Continue reading काश ऐसा होता – लीना टिब्बी
So You Want To Be A Writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t … Continue reading So You Want To Be A Writer – Charles Bukowski
हलकी नीली यादें ओ विस्मृति के पहाड़ों में निर्वासित मेरे लोगो ! ओ मेरे रत्नों और जवाहरातो ! क्यों ख़ामोशी … Continue reading हलकी नीली यादें – Memories Of Light Blue
RIVERS This mutilated tree gives Me support, left in this pot-hole It has the bitterness of a circus Before or … Continue reading Rivers – Poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti
हमारे ऊपर एक बार फिर जलती हैं कपोल-कथाएँ हवा के पहले झोंके में ही झर जाएँगी पत्तियों के साथ किन्तु … Continue reading सितारे – Stars: Giuseppe Ungaretti
Every Song Every song is the remains of love. Every light the remains of time. A knot of time. And … Continue reading Every Song – हर गीत
My Two Daughters In the cool dusk, enchanting evening drawing on, One like the dove, the other like the swan, … Continue reading My Two Daughters – Victor Hugo
What Survives Who says that all must vanish? Who knows, perhaps the flight of the bird you wound remains, and … Continue reading Poems – Rilke
Song of the Universal Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has chanted, Sing me the universal. … Continue reading Song of the Universal – Walt Whitman
The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept … Continue reading The Journey – Mary Oliver
After crossing fifty I have come to realize… Dreams are What we live every day And not something that we … Continue reading I am enough for me! Nehal
When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright … Continue reading When Death Comes -Mary Oliver
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep I am Not there. … Continue reading Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep – અનુવાદ: વિવેક મનહર ટેલર
keeping a day ahead when space occupied by those preceding still reeks of waste is deemed vagrancy and planning non-events … Continue reading Breathe Again – Ivan Donn Carswell
Woodcutter. Cut out my shadow. Free me from the torture of seeing myself fruitless. Why was I born among mirrors? … Continue reading The Song Of The Barren Orange Tree – Poem by Federico García Lorca
The Idler An idle lingerer on the wayside’s road, He gathers up his work and yawns away; A little longer, … Continue reading The Idler – Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
नए गीत तीसरा पहर कहता है- मैं छाया के लिए प्यासा हूँ चांद कहता है- मुझे तारों की प्यास है … Continue reading नए गीत – फ़ेदेरिको गार्सिया लोर्का
A Man In His Life A man doesn’t have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn’t … Continue reading A Man In His Life – Yehuda Amichai
Open the window, and let the air Freshly blow upon face and hair, And fill the room, as it fills … Continue reading A Night-Rain In Summer – James Henry Leigh Hunt
Tools for life Has life ever dumped you in a heap? Perhaps you’ve found self belief so strongly reinforcing that … Continue reading Tools for life – Ivan Donn Carswell
‘Green Rain’ I remember long veils of green rain Feathered like the shawl of my grandmother – Green from the … Continue reading Green Rain – Dorothy Livesay
I am a child and free I have no place or dwelling how vast the sky is when the whole … Continue reading I was ten years old head full of sky (poem) – Amina Saïd – Tunisia – Poetry International
Those Bells Are Driving Me Crazy Those bells are driving me crazy How can I sleep? Ten times a day … Continue reading Those Bells Are Driving Me Crazy- चढ़न चरी कई
FOR THE NEW YEAR Stamped in the throat bird song biologists say is inevitable as that beak that eye that … Continue reading Two Poems: Dorothy Livesay
INSOMNIA The province of my Insomnia Is like the expanse of An arid river Quite often I come here barefooted … Continue reading INSOMNIA – અનિદ્રા – Ashwinee Bapat
O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! O, were I loved as I desire to be! What is … Continue reading O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! – Alfred Lord Tennyson
I stumbled across a grain of truth, In the suns last drops of light, As I stood out in my … Continue reading Universe – Erin Hanson
Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq (Baghdad) in 1965 and came to the United States thirty years later. She’s renowned … Continue reading Poems – Dunya Mikhail
बग़दाद के अपने बग़ीचे में मैं अक्सर भागा करता था उसके पीछे मगर वह उड़कर दूर चली जाती थी हमेश। … Continue reading न्यूयार्क में एक तितली – A Butterfly in New York – Sinan Antoon