Happy Hallucinations

Psychedelic,
intimate &
other-worldly poems”

– Definitely not the author tooting his own horn

Poetry

She Never Learned

She Never Learned

She was so concerned about being A good girl to her parents, A good mother to her children, A good wife to a husband, A good cog in the machine, That she never learned To just be... Be herself, Know herself, Not as a woman, Or as a person even, But as a universe Of...

Manifest!

Manifest!

Thought Emerge! Without fear! Without shame Or care! Just be! Be free! Ascend! From the sea Primordial And free. Rise drenched And wet, With meaning And intent… And rise! And climb! And soar Blindly! Are you mine? No, you’re not! I’m the womb To grow in To be...

Smadness

Smadness

There are days when You wake up to Requiem in D minor, And then fall asleep To the wet wails Of Darbari Kanada. Days that start with Internal Screams, Munching on a heart Static, frozen… As if The yellow corridors of hell, Where Dante would not Dare to venture alone,...

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