Photo by Amber Janssens on when every breath is a risk to contract disease we mask fear with vincible drapery when every thought is a risk to attract opposition we mask speech with tact in vocabulary when every act is a risk of launching rebellions we mask intent with smooth chicanery When identity is at … Continue reading Risk
I peel apples now to avoid eating wax I learnt with time how to deconstruct what people say and get to the core of what they mean polished exteriors notwithstanding A flicker of the mouth eyes wandering away to imagined lands to write another story tell me what’s fiction -and where’s the truth I peel … Continue reading Unpeeling
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 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 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
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
I tossed, turned all night struggled to get things right not a singe straight line I wanted those to align ~to build a bridge of some kind~ two points which don’t entwine resources to build on a design zig-zag ideas it does ignite till I make two ends unite https://dversepoets.com/2021/04/27/poetics-build-a-bridge/
dVerse Poetics prompt Crows calling at night - Li Bai Yellow clouds beside the walls; crows roosting near.Flying back, they caw, caw; calling in the boughs.In the loom she weaves brocade, the Qin river girl.Made of emerald yarn like mist, the window hides her words.She stops the shuttle, sorrowful, and thinks of the distant man.She … Continue reading In social prisons
Doe-eyed beauty finding her way though serpentine mountainous paths scared like a deer on being approached by hunter males she slips away like air dissolving in the clouds not leaving a clue of her origins and now hunters descend the same paths scared… https://dversepoets.com/2021/04/13/poetics-the-print-the-whales-make/
I found a poem by Nikita Gill in a Google Search Here's my 'flipped' take on it. Soul immortal, imperceptible evergreening, enriching, rolling gathering impressions, shedding bodies damaged by injuries grieving, dodging rocks https://dversepoets.com/2021/04/06/dverse-poetics-flipping-meanings/
