How to hit a woman
You have to do it a way that says - Well, what exactly? It's a speech and a poem, written in free verse, Punctuated thoroughly, Keeping in mind All of the major literary trends of the past century or...
Category: Poetry
Oil Water Fire
Even the American President is not God. I discover this fact while standing On a nude beach, by a (hopefully) dead volcano. It has taken millions of years to say that certainly, Lava will not...
To our soldiers.
for Aiyana Jones, for Abeer Qassim for little girls everywhere who don’t know the house is surrounded by air and by sea on land and on siege there is someone dangerous inside no two no three no ten...
Spring Poetry (Eternal)
Unlike the poet, you're a wolf by blood: Paws on my back, teeth in my neck. With the city's cheeks full of southwestern wind, You ruffle March ice on the flower-beds. Well, I have had myself a...
Status
Yearns for the porchlights of lovers not yet been but cannot also remove those who’ve been and gone. Lover- here-lover-now is tattooed in luminous ink on the thinnest skin of my chest, so no one...
Writer’s Admonishment
Trailing scandal like a scarf, She's lost you neatly in the crowd. And that was the easy part. Today, people ask you for your signature. Last night, you autographed her collarbone. You should really...
Water
These days I imagine a life without you like one might imagine the seas ending – the story moves across barren landscapes flecked with the debris of dead civilizations and people live in tin...
logos lobos
logos lobos, twisty-tongue turbos, trend setters, go getters, trap setters, bloodletters—— howl! prey like owl—— growl! free like fowl—— scowl! be like now—— now! be like now——...
Potohar
Please welcome Kyla Pasha as our newly minted regular columnist. Her column will feature both poetry and articles, with South Asia being the focus of the latter. - The Management. 1. The rivers are...
Commuting
Please note that more of David King's poetry on GlobalComment can be found here. - The Management. Hell begins at six and has six lanes Damp black asphalt, slashed by hard white lines, And crawled by...