she’s always a Queen, the dainty old girlshe needs to oversee queendoms and landdress appropriate, manage lashes and curlsshe sits atop hillocks, thrones built on sand she talks to all that’s dead or aliveto know its secrets, joys and painshe welcomes all leaves, thorns, beehivesno fear of heat, winds, storms or rain Weird for you; … Continue reading She’s always a Queen
Light, after a brief pause, makes itself known,Welcomed as dawn—a fresh beginningBut what if it were ever-present, never gone?Endless light, no night—a perpetual day.Imagine Earth bathed in unending brights,No sinking sun behind the horizon’s flow.Blackout curtains would be our daily woe,We celebrate the Sun’s inadequacy, you know. Moon and stars, invisible to our sight,Claim omnipresence … Continue reading Light’s Eternal Dance
Find me a space in darkness.Where solitude reigns no accusatory fingers0r oblique glancesfilled with hatrednot for what I dobut for what I am-differentfrom what they are Find me a window into spaceWhere I hang alone Neither an astronaut’s fameNor mythological talesDisturb the bliss of beingjust beingnot fitting intopredetermined structures Find me shapeshifting anglesTo accommodate me … Continue reading Find me a space
tonightdon’t let humanitydrink from its own cupand drain the meaning of life till the stray dog on the streetwalking with a swaggerredefines sobrietymakes oblique attemptsto connect with humansdriving the world but…barking sounds get drownedin blaring musicdisappointed nostrilsretract from alcohol fallen postscall for restorationas a dog relieves himselfof shared angst-all’s not wellwith the world Photo Challenge … Continue reading Angst
Who invented competition?It made others look up at me I was leading my lifetill crabby pincerspulled me downto mingle with themwhere I don’t belong. accused of unthought deedscrossing boundariesmakes me criminal Who invented communities?They kill individuality Quadrille at dVerse
irrelevant sidewalkslook wistfullyat speeding carson the expresswayfocus only onchalk-white arrows -sprouting greens-a flower peepingfrom asphalt cracks-rolled down rocksstuck in a wire meshask for participationin fast-moving life a camera clickwhizzes pastrecords a momentto be sharedwhile breathingpeppermint windsin the countryside the sidewalk endswhere the tunnel begins-it loses attentionof passers-byto artificially lit darkwaiting to come outat the other … Continue reading Sidewalk
Save them, someone …for I’m not in control Frankensteins rule the worldChanging algorithms at willWe needed them to scare the enemyBut now …Are they friends or new enemies? I still use them as a toolto shrug responsibilityto escape accountabilityand blame them for all the messthat secretly serves my purpose Tell them, someoneThat I’m not in … Continue reading Who is in control?
words dried upbefore hitting the Express buttonturn rancidin anticipationof being held accountablefor every comma and pause words interruptedbefore the completion of a sentenceshrivel upin despair knowingtheir spirit goes unheardwhile letters hang mid-air words accumulatedunspoken, buried aliveflare upin rage to become a firethat consumes the speakerbut who cares anyway? Sunday Confessionals
Chosen 13 lines from my poem titled Eternity a day, a month,a year, a decade,a century, an ageride on predecessors-carry bits of themlike concealed colorsof a spectrum-highlight their gold-leave imprintson transient sandknowingthe future will interpretstories as they like NEW POEM WITH INSERTED FRAGMENTS desperation clutching on toself-defined routinesnon-negotiableit is the only way to survivea day, … Continue reading Fragment Poem
platitudes give meaning to emptinesslight up a path ahead but let them not replacehard-earned wisdom or experiencethose who coined the wordsput together their perspectivesI may have another view or wayWho is the audience to say?It reeks of a mindset – not theirs platitudes spark discussionswith naysayers on both sidesbring rigidity to the foreembedded in loyaltyor … Continue reading Platitudes
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