Happy Hallucinations

Psychedelic,
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other-worldly poems”

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Poetry

Little Death

Little Death

The wise ones often sayWhen one faces death –The eternal oblivion,The shared experienceThat makes us all kin –One sees with clarityThe life that one livedWith moments bitter-sweetSavoured once more,In a flash of a moment,In the blink of an eye...What I’d like to...

Kintsugi of a broken heart

Kintsugi of a broken heart

For days on endI stood numb and still,With frostbites on the cavityWhere my heart used to be.Your cold hand has snatched,Pulled, and frozeThe vessel of my passion –The busted drumThat used to beatTo the rhythm of your name.In a fit of rageYou crushed,And threw...

Look within!

Look within!

Look inside!Look within!I know what you see.You see yourselfOn the ocean of your soul.Barely holding onto your raftBeing thrown aroundBy rogue waves.How your bullies onceThrew your bag around after school –A crying monkeyIn the middle … I can see in your face.Storm...

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