Photo by Matheus Bertelli on Pexels.com roads are designed to reach destinationsdon't let roadmaps become obsessionsRoads? Where we are going we don't need roadsReaching there will be a revelation don't let roadmaps become obsessionsthese are frameworks to confine youreaching there will be a revelationit may not be your dream, your celebration these are frameworks to … Continue reading Roads
Photo by James Wheeler on Pexels.com I flip through the pages again - the scene where the girl and boy are being sent to different places in Siberia. They almost know it - they’ll never return or meet each other again. Yet, the girl says ..”Watch the moon in the sky, and think of me. … Continue reading Flower Moon
Photo by Ashford Marx on Pexels.com she left us in the night her head hit the corner of the bed and then she couldn't see light she must have chided me to mind my step lest I hurt her in my clumsy trap she always forgave me but not tonight… She called, I did not … Continue reading Waltzing to….
Photo by Rifqi Ramadhan on Pexels.com The poet I choose is Jude Itakali. You can find him in this space here. you deftly combine forms enhance beauty of each genre creative expressions- prose and poetry flowing into each other - makes me think This is life - incomprehensible in a single font or script, incomplete … Continue reading Flowing forms
Photo by Maria Orlova on Pexels.com exploring spaces within myself wound up in knots on serpentine paths I keep moving… till the wounds within dry up creating a sensation which is not pain ..and to my inner self I tell all is well wounds unhealed lips sealed I keep moving… https://dversepoets.com/2021/05/17/whats-in-a-word/
Photo by Bri Schneiter on Pexels.com A blue sky is the space where imagination soars like birds to fly find perspectives missing from earth where is clarity of vision, when grey clouds invade minds you turn colour blind How do you let infinity and clarity get contaminated with grey let it symbolise depressed, compressed mental … Continue reading Shades of Blue
Itisha is arrested for a social media post, which is perceived as being inimical to the interest of the powerful. Fear pervades the neighbourhood, as her family gathers funds to engage a lawyer, and lives in dread of the midnight knock. Her father comes across an email from Goodreads, which shows that Itisha has been … Continue reading No Camouflage
Previous poem The dance of a maniac lacks the grace of a gymnast the gay abandon in expression of joy calculated steps to build a rhythm The dance of a maniac disturbs the balance of tolerant earth stirs spasmodic earthquake energy to unearth some more madness The dance of a maniac Strives - to make … Continue reading Maniac’s Dance
Photo by Harrison Haines on Pexels.com Whatsapp groups talk about friends, relatives struggling to breathe in hospitals or those who’ve moved beyond He flicks channels once again only to get on another- flashing Covid updates He slips deeper into depression… He accuses others of being insensitive while imagining who would miss him If he is … Continue reading Controls
four couples sway to Mento music swap partners keep with floor patterns not blinking or missing a step keeping up traditions become seeds for a form of poetry to be celebrated decades later a number rules a spirit gains more prominence than format -Quadrille https://dversepoets.com/2021/05/03/quadrille-127-planting-seeds/
Creative Experiments and More 