Poems

Happy Hallucinations

I hope To find myself In your happy hallucinations, Where you could gaze At the butterflies inside my stomach Jittering at your sight Fluttering purple kisses, Sometimes teal, or pink… To contrast your inner world Of a thousand shades of grey, To remind you of a world...

Mirror

You’re not a ‘damaged good’. Not to me, at least. You’re alluring In your chaotic grace, A bright candle Daring to burn its brightest On a dark stormy night. The fractal cracks Of your broken heart Radiates with an ardent passion – An incandescent guiding light For...

Let it Break a Little

Let your heart break a little. Let the light enter That stale room. Let birds make their nest And mushrooms enroot In those caves. Let ivies crawl up your heartstrings. Let the caterpillars Eat through your pain, Slumber, then Cocoon in your cavity. Let them wake up...

👻

Swipe right, Swipe left, Left, right, left, Keep marching, Forward! Left, right, left! Ew! Just… No! Hard pass! Swipe right, It’s a match! WTF? WTF! No thanks! But, maybe... 💦👅? 🍑🍆👉👌? Left, Left, Left, right, left, Left alone, Swipe left, Swipe right, Hmm, she looks...

Dear Poem

Poem, Stand still, Please… Just for a while. Let me admire Your spark, Gleaming On my tears of ecstasy. Let me savour, For a fleeting moment, The scent of your Ephemeral madness. Let me drink, To get drunk On your bittersweet chaos Inebriated by your maudlin moans Let...

Cold Warmth

There is warmth In your cold embrace. Your sweet words are Visible to my naked eyes, As they wrap me up Like a thick fog Covering a beautiful secret. How beautiful you look Adorned with your crown of glacier... Your icy, pale eyes, Hiding a heart full of love – A...

Warrior Poet

The heart of the warrior poet Roared in victory, When he won the battle By befriending His mortal enemy – His own self From the shadow realm. Instead of smiting him, He embraced him. For he saw in him His own reflection, The seed of compassion Under the flame of...

Shieldmaiden

Don’t be my Juliet, Nor my Leila, Or a Rapunzel trapped Far away atop A phallic tower Anxious to be rescued. Don’t lie half dead In a maze of roses, Or under a glass coffin. Don’t bother showing up In a pretentious ball, Wearing uncomfortable glass slippers, Only to...

Kintsugi of a broken heart

For days on end I stood numb and still, With frostbites on the cavity Where my heart used to be. Your cold hand has snatched, Pulled, and froze The vessel of my passion – The busted drum That used to beat To the rhythm of your name. In a fit of rage You crushed, And...

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...

Dear Alchemist

What do you do When you wake up One fine morning, Discovering What you thought To be your darkness Was your light all along? When you find that Your frigid heart Has been guarding Kindlings for you And has been Gracefully striking Your hardened Regret and misery To...

At last, perfection!

I carved my heart into a spoon To feed you my love, my love. My broken bones fashioned into Rough and rugged forks, So you could swallow my soul Served on my ivory-white skull, Made hollow to carry your pain. I let my tongue under your teeth, My marrow in your drool,...

The Lighthouse

Once upon a time There was a lonely little lighthouse, Derelict, on a teeny-tiny asteroid Floating through space Aimlessly swimming Through the writhing waves of Cosmos, Sometimes upright, Upside-down at times, Or sideways every so often. For an adventurer of darkness...

A Fire Inside

A spark was born today, Lit deep within An ashen womb. Rising from the dead, Like a lone blade of grass Peering through the cracks Of a boulder tamed By time and weather, Spreading its wing To swim in the wind. Curiosity brimming, And bubbling to know more! A fire...

The Longest Love Letter

We have been separated By aeons and generations And places of all kind – Ideas of ancestors Long forgotten by time, Travelling through the void, On this lonely mote of dust; Identities of all kind Of meanings arbitrary Thrust onto us, Without us understanding, Or...

Vinyl Ribs

Far away from home There’s a grave I’m looking for To chill my warm bones With your cold embrace. Fireflies would light candles To my final memories Of your laughter That’s etched Deep within my bones Rusty scythe of death Would rattle bitter-sweet music Of your...

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,...

Sad Defiance

Dark clouds gather As old wounds fester In a heart heavy With griefs unknown, Barren lands, yet to discover… In a sparkless world – Where tears do not rain, Not anymore, To ease some tension . My pen, traitorous, Refuses to bleed Any more words, On your stale paper....

Dear Artist

Dear Artist Red is the colour of passion, And blue that of sadness – Or so people say. As if colours ever had Inherent meanings other than ones We bestowed upon them… What are these colours even, Without a stream of light? Their waves crashing on pigments Who are...

Little Death

The wise ones often say When one faces death – The eternal oblivion, The shared experience That makes us all kin – One sees with clarity The life that one lived With moments bitter-sweet Savoured once more, In a flash of a moment, In the blink of an eye... What I’d...

Graveyard of Old Memories

I keep digging deep In the graveyard Of old memories. No tombstone, no name No dates necessary. Daturas and nightshades Hovering over your remains – Marking where you lay, On your final resting place. My shovel hits the coffin – Wood once varnished with my tears, Now...

Look within!

Look inside! Look within! I know what you see. You see yourself On the ocean of your soul. Barely holding onto your raft Being thrown around By rogue waves. How your bullies once Threw your bag around after school – A crying monkey In the middle … I can see in your...

Letter to her

To the woman I’ve not met yet — First of all: hello! Although I cannot see your face, You’re just a shadow, A barely visible silhouette, An unlockable video game character. I cannot see your smile, The colour of your eyes, Or how your hair radiates Under the summer...

Do you remember?

Do you remember? That lazy summer’s day? When a few sleepy raindrops Cradled by the sky, Rolled over and fell down From their soft beds? You do remember, don’t you? How they landed on your cheek? How gently you woke them up, With that sweet smile of yours? How the...

Your Faith

Can’t see a god? Or a djinn? Angels or demons? Centaurs or Kraken? Boogeyman or Babadook? Vampires or Werewolves? Fakirs of days lost? Ash-clad Aghoris? Or a crimson tongued Kali? Heroes or villains, (Super or not)? Monsters of every kind? Or saviours of our times?...

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...

MT

Empty feelings Empty streets Empty pocket Empty wallet Empty fridge Empty heart Empty stares Empty cradle Empty bottle Empty home Empty smile Empty plate Empty bed Empty nest Emptiness Empty Empt Emp Em E F I .Image credit: Feature image generated with DALL·E using a...

In Your Fragile Memories

I do not wish to be immortal — Eternal loneliness Rather than dancing The dance of decay. As long as my ephemeral existence Finds home in your laughter, In our shared drop of tear, In our fleeting glance That may never cross again, In your fragile memories… As long as...

God of Breadcrumbs

If I could be a god of anything, I’d be the God of breadcrumbs, Lord and Master of nutshells, Or banana peels— A minor deity Of your forgotten, Neglected, Useless bits of food. Worshipped without knowing, With your unintended offerings, Only to be picked up by ants,...

Dear Strangers

I hope this poem reaches you. May it survive the turmoil of time And the turbulence of space, And create the same mess, The same splatter of emotions That it once made During its violent, painful birth In the dark void of my mind. I hope it shows you the same light...

Worms on my lips

When I’ll cease to be, And the worms will throw a feast On these lips that you loved so, Know that they will say Could they say anything at all: “In his last moment, He sighed your name.” Image credit: Feature image generated with DALL·E using a prompt based on this...

Origin of the World

As I climb your mountains, Stand on top of your peak, I gaze far away And see your valley Of thousand mysteries — The fertile crescent For which men wage wars, And die miserable deaths Of forgotten despair Your majestic canyon Would be the muse for artists, Or...

Rise

Just rise From the abyss Of possibilities infinite; Where countless worlds Were sacrificed In the Red Sea Of divine hemorrhage: Blood offerings to Selene. And feel… Just feel Bygone ashes that make Your body and mind; Every butterfly wings Or a simple blade of grass...