Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
For two months / I have not written / a word.
In the drawing room you sat shaven / among cleavages rank with sweat.
Lifting his head from the paper he noticed her orange hair.
I miss a social life. I know I made myself for that.
Dear fellow gull, a question or two for you to answer, if you care to.
once more I had entered the stream of things to become part of America
Somewhere on a manicured street / a poem is waiting
I have just read / a poem I wrote ten years ago. I like it.
Everyone is dead, has been dead / for a long time
A man is teaching his son to play the piano. He tells the boy, the piano loves to be touched.