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Image credit: Feature image generated with DALL·E using a prompt based on this poem and its themes.
If this piece resonates with you and you’re a visual artist, I’d love to feature your own soul-crafted work in place of the AI image.
I carved my heart into a spoonTo feed you my love, my love.My broken bones fashioned intoRough and rugged forks,So you could swallow my soulServed on my ivory-white skull,Made hollow to carry your pain.I let my tongue under your teeth,My marrow in your drool,And yet,...
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...
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...
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...
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?Can’t see...
As I climb your mountains,Stand on top of your peak,I gaze far awayAnd see your valleyOf thousand mysteries —The fertile crescentFor which men wage wars,And die miserable deathsOf forgotten despairYour majestic canyonWould be the muse for artists,Or sometimes a...