Poetry

I see unity in tangled webs of evil piercing my skin and pebbles on thorny paths they immunize minds to pain of conscience calls   In school of life we unlearn idealism dark, monstrous shadows overtake, overpower traces of nobility complicity breeds success   JSW Prompt

relationships dried up like rancid stale vermouth, linger on, like addiction a bitter aftertaste of last night’s indulgence.   lightness in the head facilitates stepping out of a conflict zone I’ve always called home, and pour out richness of sorrow in sparkling glass and verse.   Weekly Writing Challenge #136 (5) Words: | LIGHT | … Continue reading Sparkling

I look for a spirit behind the glamor and beauty, edited highlights of ladies who lunch, and pose to oblige camera lenses ever smiling with gleaming eyes I may just find a sister somewhere seeking companions for the soul who sees life just as I do has been thru’ the same grind in metaphoric ways … Continue reading Soul Sisters

black shades of mindless evil make revenge look grey and purple like the scars on innocence which bleed, then swell disproportionate to past weakness.   will power emerges out of the blue and leaps like tongues of fire to burn the perpetrator’s ego and live forever a glowing ember   Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge at Go … Continue reading Vengeful is the soul

contrasting colors and textures help one to establish unique identities with juxtaposition   we need the opposite to tell define inscribe see, what we are at the core it’s all that matters   the line that defines us is also what separates us from the rest of the whole parts redefined   #Writephoto by Sue … Continue reading Redefined

whipping the self with rods of guilt for dry spells of creative activity   I feel jaded within lines of busy-ness keys to the psyche lost in mindless work   I will fly again across the sky to rediscover fertile spots in arid expanses   Weekly Writing Prompt #134 (5) Words: Mar 26th | FLY … Continue reading Arid expanses

hordes of employees see auricles expand beyond proportion to internalise predictions of Boss-oracles.   appraisals see cash being hoarded by those who have whored their way sacrificing values and self-respect.   Loyalty is rewarded while capability patiently awaits its turn or silently, gives up   Saturday Mix- Double Take Challenge The ‘Double Take’ challenge focuses … Continue reading Appraisals

illusions of connectedness with designed frameworks imposed on each story woven into a larger pattern   a vision of divine bliss at the other end of logic pulls the traveller through the patched up, stony paths   muffled sounds of dissent through the arched doorways, calling out the pretence, drown in the depths of pseudo … Continue reading Mythical truths

Here's a Retourne what happened was experience what we remember are tales we told ourselves about it they go on to become beliefs   what we remember are tales what we saw, what we heard what we touched, how we felt in frameworks of our choice   we tell ourselves about it repeat the story … Continue reading Reality is only a perspective

Moonlight smells of insomnia and dreams. I hear the sound of late night revellers and graveyard-shifters. I think about the crimes being committed somewhere. I feel the chill in the air as the street dog curls up in her sleep. I sip a few more drops of alcoholic imagination. I see my blank screen, as … Continue reading Smell of Moonlight