alaric-moras - Hello Poetry

You waded through memories on your throne All of us look on, smiling, False courtiers, pretend lovers To the hag who was queen Your Tudor eyes crinkle As you pretend joy At this false homage From this worthless court, All bows and manic grins shining winter twilight coldly on you You see Death in their eyes As once before in your sister's When her Spanish heart Sent yours to the Tower But your head did not roll on its green, As your mother's once did For tearing Christendom in two For daring To think That a woman Could have A voice You stroke Queen Anne's jewels With her fingers, The ones she gave you When she loved your father Despite all it cost the world We, the victors of the Elizabethean age Laugh at you, Elizabeth, aged, ****** Queen Whose lover's letters litter The back of her tear-stained pillow When your cold Tudor eyes finally close And end the dynasty first founded On a woman's vicious piety, Know that you, Lilibeth, Liquid eyes that sunk a Thousand Ships, Tinkling laughter that tore men asunder, Iron fist that quashed a myriad hopes, will not be mourned.

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Nov 7, 2020

Nov 7, 2020 at 8:29 PM UTC

Gloriana

You waded through memories on your throne All of us look on, smiling, False courtiers, pretend lovers To the hag who was queen Your Tudor eyes crinkle As you pretend joy At this false homage From this worthless court, All bows and manic grins shining winter twilight coldly on you You see Death in their eyes As once before in your sister's When her Spanish heart Sent yours to the Tower But your head did not roll on its green, As your mother's once did For tearing Christendom in two For daring To think That a woman Could have A voice You stroke Queen Anne's jewels With her fingers, The ones she gave you When she loved your father Despite all it cost the world We, the victors of the Elizabethean age Laugh at you, Elizabeth, aged, ****** Queen Whose lover's letters litter The back of her tear-stained pillow When your cold Tudor eyes finally close And end the dynasty first founded On a woman's vicious piety, Know that you, Lilibeth, Liquid eyes that sunk a Thousand Ships, Tinkling laughter that tore men asunder, Iron fist that quashed a myriad hopes, will not be mourned.

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The memory of my father lies in The stoop of my shoulders The inability to hold them up Is evenly balanced with the push into the small of my back Leaving me with a queer spinelessness I learnt to hate myself as I hated him, In the twist of my arrogant nose The overwrought hands And the curve of a jagged smile But somewhere in between these things I saw Everything I ever loved Eyes that spoke of quiet starlight A jaw that tempered my furious mirth A peace that babbled Between each laugh And so my mirror, forever Janus Hides in it everything I have ever loved And everything I try to.

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Mar 2, 2018

Mar 2, 2018 at 2:52 AM UTC

My Father

The memory of my father lies in The stoop of my shoulders The inability to hold them up Is evenly balanced with the push into the small of my back Leaving me with a queer spinelessness I learnt to hate myself as I hated him, In the twist of my arrogant nose The overwrought hands And the curve of a jagged smile But somewhere in between these things I saw Everything I ever loved Eyes that spoke of quiet starlight A jaw that tempered my furious mirth A peace that babbled Between each laugh And so my mirror, forever Janus Hides in it everything I have ever loved And everything I try to.

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But this is also what love looks like This moment when you Reach for the stars and know exactly How many miles separate you from them And though you paint them on your hands One galaxy at a time You know Even as the paint dries off your fingertips, That you will not feel as if you cradle The universe in your arms Again - missing, too, is loving

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Aug 23, 2017

Aug 23, 2017 at 4:53 PM UTC

Missing too is Loving

But this is also what love looks like This moment when you Reach for the stars and know exactly How many miles separate you from them And though you paint them on your hands One galaxy at a time You know Even as the paint dries off your fingertips, That you will not feel as if you cradle The universe in your arms Again - missing, too, is loving

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Say you don't love me, woman But your eyes speak brighter than Any green ******* light in any God ****** book Quote them authors I've never read Tell me about heartbreak and letting things go gracefully But though you may think that we're over I can promise that we've only just begun - Aries I have lived And I have grown In this garden And nothing, Not even the clinking of your anklets Long after you have gone Will convince me to leave Even if this means that my tears Are what water the jasmine bush That you so smelt of Everytime we made love After the first rain showers - Taurus The butterflies have come early this year, I know, And though you are humming my favourite song In my grandmother's kitchen this dawn, I know that it will be someone else doing so when next they swarm - Gemini Each day is drenched in memory From my head to my toes, I still feel your kisses Drowning the rat tat tat of rains Against my window Bombay hides you in it And I, Despite all my shallow pride Cannot seek you out Because while every breath you breathe Is stolen from against my chest, I know that your stone heart will seethe inside me forever - Cancer In anguish I shatter the mirror That once held so much Promise Because no matter what time of day it is I can only see your sunset eyes Reflected in mine After an afternoon Of red wine - Leo I folded my heart And put it in your sleeve And you left it there Even as I stared at you across the hallway kissing her Thirty years later She hands me your first child And asks me to be Godfather I smile through heartbreak and remark On just how much her lips resemble yours The very rosebuds that kissed me that one night At 3 am during that sleepover When I became a man - Virgo They buried me In rolls of fabric Giggling at my tears Thinking they were bride's fears Not knowng that Even after all this time I hear Your terrible poetry ringing between Every toll of my wedding bells. - Libra You have said many loud things As I politely hum our song While burning your best shirt I am the witch, the crone, the scorpion hidden Underneath your sheets, you say, But through five long years of excellent *** It was only today you bothered to say That mummy dearest thought My skin too dark for a wedding gown Do not doubt karma, my love Know that four years from now As you hold my children (Each the colour of a midnight sky), It could have been you And not your brother That they call 'father.' - Scorpio You tired of the chase when you finally knew That I was running not from you But into the arms of A universe I was hell bent on making With or without Your stolen kisses on the back of my neck. - Sagittarius You held me as I Splintered against the cruel night Bones shattering like crystal shards That slip into the earth's ears. I'm sorry because I was never in love with anything but Your steady hands That held my sorrows For this little while - Capricorn You were nothing more And nothing less Than my favourite idea But you were not meant to be trapped between The pages of my bookish heart And no matter how many times my lips studied The almonds of your thin fingernails You were never meant For me My bed This quiet, scholar's nest So when the universe called You stood up, packed up your bags, left them behind And floated on to your next vice. - Aquarius Lost in the ever widening oceans of your silence, I succumb and take a deep draught of you. At last the teapot does not rattle when I serve us evening tea. - Pisces

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Aug 19, 2017

Aug 19, 2017 at 2:26 PM UTC

Poetry for the Signs of the Zodiac

Say you don't love me, woman But your eyes speak brighter than Any green ******* light in any God ****** book Quote them authors I've never read Tell me about heartbreak and letting things go gracefully But though you may think that we're over I can promise that we've only just begun - Aries I have lived And I have grown In this garden And nothing, Not even the clinking of your anklets Long after you have gone Will convince me to leave Even if this means that my tears Are what water the jasmine bush That you so smelt of Everytime we made love After the first rain showers - Taurus The butterflies have come early this year, I know, And though you are humming my favourite song In my grandmother's kitchen this dawn, I know that it will be someone else doing so when next they swarm - Gemini Each day is drenched in memory From my head to my toes, I still feel your kisses Drowning the rat tat tat of rains Against my window Bombay hides you in it And I, Despite all my shallow pride Cannot seek you out Because while every breath you breathe Is stolen from against my chest, I know that your stone heart will seethe inside me forever - Cancer In anguish I shatter the mirror That once held so much Promise Because no matter what time of day it is I can only see your sunset eyes Reflected in mine After an afternoon Of red wine - Leo I folded my heart And put it in your sleeve And you left it there Even as I stared at you across the hallway kissing her Thirty years later She hands me your first child And asks me to be Godfather I smile through heartbreak and remark On just how much her lips resemble yours The very rosebuds that kissed me that one night At 3 am during that sleepover When I became a man - Virgo They buried me In rolls of fabric Giggling at my tears Thinking they were bride's fears Not knowng that Even after all this time I hear Your terrible poetry ringing between Every toll of my wedding bells. - Libra You have said many loud things As I politely hum our song While burning your best shirt I am the witch, the crone, the scorpion hidden Underneath your sheets, you say, But through five long years of excellent *** It was only today you bothered to say That mummy dearest thought My skin too dark for a wedding gown Do not doubt karma, my love Know that four years from now As you hold my children (Each the colour of a midnight sky), It could have been you And not your brother That they call 'father.' - Scorpio You tired of the chase when you finally knew That I was running not from you But into the arms of A universe I was hell bent on making With or without Your stolen kisses on the back of my neck. - Sagittarius You held me as I Splintered against the cruel night Bones shattering like crystal shards That slip into the earth's ears. I'm sorry because I was never in love with anything but Your steady hands That held my sorrows For this little while - Capricorn You were nothing more And nothing less Than my favourite idea But you were not meant to be trapped between The pages of my bookish heart And no matter how many times my lips studied The almonds of your thin fingernails You were never meant For me My bed This quiet, scholar's nest So when the universe called You stood up, packed up your bags, left them behind And floated on to your next vice. - Aquarius Lost in the ever widening oceans of your silence, I succumb and take a deep draught of you. At last the teapot does not rattle when I serve us evening tea. - Pisces

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I have made a wooden doll of you Carving into its top A jagged smile Just the kind you used to give me Before you slipped your tongue In To meet mine Sometimes I dangle it off my knees Imagining you begging me please Let go Let go, don’t tease Me so I know, I know But this isn’t about you For once Darling, sweetheart, ******* This is about my nails digging in To your splinter belly Like a month ago When your wooden sighs Rocked the prow of my bed When I thought that the timbre of your moans Meant I wouldn’t ever be alone Creature, mine, Did you know that Every seven years or so Every cell of the body replaces itself? The day will come when, with elation No part of me Will know Your touch Then is when I will finally burn you, doll, In a fire that will light incense And I will smell you again New, brand new As you once were And never again shall be.

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Jul 27, 2017

Jul 27, 2017 at 9:27 AM UTC

i have made of you a wooden doll

I have made a wooden doll of you Carving into its top A jagged smile Just the kind you used to give me Before you slipped your tongue In To meet mine Sometimes I dangle it off my knees Imagining you begging me please Let go Let go, don’t tease Me so I know, I know But this isn’t about you For once Darling, sweetheart, ******* This is about my nails digging in To your splinter belly Like a month ago When your wooden sighs Rocked the prow of my bed When I thought that the timbre of your moans Meant I wouldn’t ever be alone Creature, mine, Did you know that Every seven years or so Every cell of the body replaces itself? The day will come when, with elation No part of me Will know Your touch Then is when I will finally burn you, doll, In a fire that will light incense And I will smell you again New, brand new As you once were And never again shall be.

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I look at you as you crush the daisies Strewn in the meadow we hardly visit Still reeking as it were from our first kiss Your hands carelessly crush the petals And not my fingers Above and below us, silence The moon is the only one who sees My heart splintering against Your sleeves I had a reputation for burning bridges But you had builder’s hands Though this night, neither of us know How to do either When these plants are long gone And they find my skull here, Centuries from now Reeking of crushed daisies I wonder whether they will smell you hiding Beneath the grinning bone - Love should go **** itself

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Jul 27, 2017

Jul 27, 2017 at 8:37 AM UTC

Love should go **** itself

I look at you as you crush the daisies Strewn in the meadow we hardly visit Still reeking as it were from our first kiss Your hands carelessly crush the petals And not my fingers Above and below us, silence The moon is the only one who sees My heart splintering against Your sleeves I had a reputation for burning bridges But you had builder’s hands Though this night, neither of us know How to do either When these plants are long gone And they find my skull here, Centuries from now Reeking of crushed daisies I wonder whether they will smell you hiding Beneath the grinning bone - Love should go **** itself

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You are- The taste of summer In a coffee pudding The sound of a table fan Masking sighs A muffled chuckle when My fingers do the congo On your Expanse of Flesh Undulating My head spinning Your lips whispering Our hearts pounding Quiet You are- Seine nights we swapped For evenings of 'just one kiss' Sunrays in a jardin Over crisscrossed fingers Pastéis de nata when All else is sour A Spanish song I hum I cannot understand Love, The sky grumbles because Try as we may to hide it, Our June knows When we ignore it for each other - Lui(s) II

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Jul 9, 2017

Jul 9, 2017 at 12:56 PM UTC

Lui(s) II

You are- The taste of summer In a coffee pudding The sound of a table fan Masking sighs A muffled chuckle when My fingers do the congo On your Expanse of Flesh Undulating My head spinning Your lips whispering Our hearts pounding Quiet You are- Seine nights we swapped For evenings of 'just one kiss' Sunrays in a jardin Over crisscrossed fingers Pastéis de nata when All else is sour A Spanish song I hum I cannot understand Love, The sky grumbles because Try as we may to hide it, Our June knows When we ignore it for each other - Lui(s) II

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I wake up Terrified Knowing that your scent (In all its transcendence) Is fleeting. The fear is not unfounded. Yesterday, my most summer shirt Smelt like Your touch at sunset Tongue Pressed to my lungs, Fingers That forever lingered Hair Tousled air But today It lies dead, Crushed beneath the burning sky it weathered After a day bereft Of your cool laughter Beloved, Try as I may to hide it, We both know when My clothes have not touched you enough - Lui(s)

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May 26, 2017

May 26, 2017 at 11:55 PM UTC

Lui(s)

I wake up Terrified Knowing that your scent (In all its transcendence) Is fleeting. The fear is not unfounded. Yesterday, my most summer shirt Smelt like Your touch at sunset Tongue Pressed to my lungs, Fingers That forever lingered Hair Tousled air But today It lies dead, Crushed beneath the burning sky it weathered After a day bereft Of your cool laughter Beloved, Try as I may to hide it, We both know when My clothes have not touched you enough - Lui(s)

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I burn for you In places you have never known The sweet expanse that is my chest Thumping painfully Uncharted territory that rises and falls Second for every second that you do not calm it With your ploughing teeth My neck is wreathed in Your kisses never given The ocean folds of it Rippling for want of The moon of your smile In darkest night My sinew arms creaking Like a forest rustling Without The liquid lap of your Sweet tongue Dripping dewdrop desire Into parched elbows My body is a land entombed Without your blessed breathing Fogging its locked grounds When you finally find yourself At my doorstep Brave enough to conquer a land Flat chested, hard, briny You will find that Someone else has wet these terrains And love grows like lush On every part of me Worth touching

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May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017 at 6:41 AM UTC

the forest fire everyone hears but no one sees

I burn for you In places you have never known The sweet expanse that is my chest Thumping painfully Uncharted territory that rises and falls Second for every second that you do not calm it With your ploughing teeth My neck is wreathed in Your kisses never given The ocean folds of it Rippling for want of The moon of your smile In darkest night My sinew arms creaking Like a forest rustling Without The liquid lap of your Sweet tongue Dripping dewdrop desire Into parched elbows My body is a land entombed Without your blessed breathing Fogging its locked grounds When you finally find yourself At my doorstep Brave enough to conquer a land Flat chested, hard, briny You will find that Someone else has wet these terrains And love grows like lush On every part of me Worth touching

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From the dust of my memories I put you together, I am trying to glean you from the sands of time that have separated us. There is no poetry in me, nothing hidden or secret that I can say, just that Though we had long known each other, we now simply Know Of Each Other And this, to me, will always be the finest tragedy, The coup de main of time I watch you though the layers of lies that are Facebook Instagram I see your words dry up and sometimes flow A stream few others love; the sweet cadence of the Silent rhythms I have long loved Your tribute to the bea(s)ts inside your heart You always reminded me of silver, The tarnished kind, Sitting quietly in Colaba market Waiting to be touched, loved, occasionally dropped, But always retaining in yourself The sleek splendor reserved for someone Proud in the knowledge that When the moonlight shines on her, She would know how to shine right back. Beloved, You are married now, And no words dance between us I have listened to you on nights With barbequed meats simmering Moths fluttering And laughter tinkling The wind caressing your stray hair as if it knew That you belonged to it all this while. I will burn into the back of my otherwise undisturbed skull The pictures of you in white, I laugh. Seeing your delight In a dress We never thought you’d slip yourself into So evasive were you, But nothing stopped you when your mind was made, Falling in love with a man who could listen like the ocean From the dust of my memories, I draw you out Through the sands of time I see you, Living in a world where The stars dance for your joy alone. Someday, somewhere beyond this life, We will meet each other in the spaces Between two others’ lonely fingers.

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May 9, 2017

May 9, 2017 at 4:47 AM UTC

Dusty Memories

From the dust of my memories I put you together, I am trying to glean you from the sands of time that have separated us. There is no poetry in me, nothing hidden or secret that I can say, just that Though we had long known each other, we now simply Know Of Each Other And this, to me, will always be the finest tragedy, The coup de main of time I watch you though the layers of lies that are Facebook Instagram I see your words dry up and sometimes flow A stream few others love; the sweet cadence of the Silent rhythms I have long loved Your tribute to the bea(s)ts inside your heart You always reminded me of silver, The tarnished kind, Sitting quietly in Colaba market Waiting to be touched, loved, occasionally dropped, But always retaining in yourself The sleek splendor reserved for someone Proud in the knowledge that When the moonlight shines on her, She would know how to shine right back. Beloved, You are married now, And no words dance between us I have listened to you on nights With barbequed meats simmering Moths fluttering And laughter tinkling The wind caressing your stray hair as if it knew That you belonged to it all this while. I will burn into the back of my otherwise undisturbed skull The pictures of you in white, I laugh. Seeing your delight In a dress We never thought you’d slip yourself into So evasive were you, But nothing stopped you when your mind was made, Falling in love with a man who could listen like the ocean From the dust of my memories, I draw you out Through the sands of time I see you, Living in a world where The stars dance for your joy alone. Someday, somewhere beyond this life, We will meet each other in the spaces Between two others’ lonely fingers.

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