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.
Naked TV wrestlers
turn my arm through the gentle ambience of Newtonian
space.
Who would think it ever—
lasting? Patent, it seems, to be nothing
but what it is: one of the summering
Young, nondescript,
well, she's a little fat,
the life and fall of thick '
I'm the one who has imprisoned the rain dragon.
You know the story? About the dark-eyed girl who seduces
the holy man and ends the long drought.
No lily grows from coal, the obscene mole descends
And wends, bending ahead of pressure from his home,
Digging the window and the door, filing the floor
It seems no air or any other thing
Pretends to help; and you, defeated now,
But visibilities, your balm and clue,
He’s come to the beginning of the end
Of the poem, the moment when he turns
To place the first of its words on paper.
In the country, a dog is as free as a roach
“The figure should be natural and relaxed,”
asserted Mucha to his drawing class,
Never was there a time when I did not lead him,
when I did not feel his hand upon my shoulder.
Never was there a time I was not his eyes