POEMS

__STOP ALL THE CLOCKS - W.H.AUDEN __

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public  doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">For nothing now can ever come to any good.

__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">EVERY NIGHT - SHAMIN SARIF __

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Every night I empty my heart, but by morning it's full again. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Slow droplets of you seep in through the night's soft caress. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">At dawn I overflow with thoughts of us, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">An aching pleasure that gives me no respite <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Love cannot be contained, the neat packaging of desire <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Splits asunder, spilling crimson through my days <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Long, languishing days that are now bruised tender with yearning <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Spent searching for a fingerprint, a scent, a breath you left behind.