I’ll let you in.Don’t fold your wings tightor hide beneath umbrella leaves,or search for crevices in bark-you are safe beneath this roof. I need you to feel strong in vulnerability.I’m not as pretty or frail as you,nor am I a muse for artistswho chase fleeting grace.But I know storms. I’ve watched skies bruise and break,felt … Continue reading Butterfly at the Window
not just wordsor formatsor thoughtsor emotions Everything comes togetherto create a unique perspective neither researchnor hypothesesnor logicnor conclusion just a summationof experience in a moment not always physicalor mentalor emotionalor spiritual it is the only truthfrom a certain point of view not just eyeballsor commentsor likesor views Poetry draws togetherall those who share the momentat … Continue reading Prism of Perception
I download an appto delete noise from picturesbut it is ineffectivebeyond two dimensions light and colourcollide in different shapesopinions push their waythrough objectivityBig Data is not worththe analytical effort Decisions are skewedInsanity prevailsagainst the backdropof the majority Majority winsMajority ruleswith high decibelsdrowns out ethicsbrutes kill morality Poetics at dVerse
let me trylet me extendextend learningextend a handhand me a flowerhand over powerpower up the mojopower train the mindmind over mattermind your languagelanguage expresseslanguage dividedivide animositydivide not peoplepeople pleasingpeople friendlyfriendly enemiesfriendly crowdcrowd the streetscrowd non sensesense the moodsense the trendstrends changetrends misleadmislead the massesmislead innocenceinnocence fooledinnocence soldsold out moralssold out ethicsethics mauledethics for a tosstoss … Continue reading Extend Rules
Do not reveal dreams-a rumpus is raisedby those who don’t figure in itThey tear it to shreds,wish you a thorny future There’s a price to be paidfor blooming in desertsfor walking alonefootprints wiped outby resentful followers Quadrille #230
Where are the worlds I was destined to lead?unmanned spaceships hijacked in orbit—rendered still by civilizations unseen,those who choose silence to remain free. Basements are mute, the sky above scornsforgotten futures abandoned by life.How old would that aborted child have been—a foetus dissolved, yet aching to be? Where are the artists who birthed the impossible?Heckled … Continue reading Ubi Sunt
she walks through lifecovering others with flexibilityof her extended limbs -omnipresent, omniscientyet invisible-a woman of no importancewho wears decisions taken by otherscarries the weight of repressed desireson her angular shoulders -cut her veinsthe blood is bluebut there is no crownon her pretty head W3 Prompt #173 OLN #390
I avoid the room where time has frozen, butneed to clean cobwebs and refresh outdated conceptsMy mother lay on this bed, aah-ing and ooh-ing with painI don’t like thinking that I may inherit osteoporosisand the intense body aches. I find a prescription for calcium in the drawer creaking with age. The loud music emanating from … Continue reading Clocking through
The grandiosity of glorified rootsis no match for the axeand those dreadful machinesget sophisticated by the dayand more by night all those eager to grab a piece of the skypull down branches that swayed between themtaste the heat and the darknessand never know why suffering comes their way someone opposes the construction of an underpassderides … Continue reading Monstrosities
Numbers rule the worldvotes, dollars, followers, likerssupported by those willing to hitch their lazy wagonsto a train perceived as driving to their destination They keep running, followingleave competence, quality languishingby the wayside; as equality overrides equity-the capable are seen as impedimentson their quest for effortless success invisible strings keep them apartetching boundaries, stretching and contractingto … Continue reading Treachery of the Common
