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May 2020 · 29
She's Stealing My Moon
Aditya Roy May 2020
She is so loud
Bright too
I wonder why she talks
If she can never love me

Like the moon
That comes out rarely
Maybe or maybe not
I am too old

To be the young fool
In love
Sell your hair
For a jar of moonbeam

We will never touch
The diamonds that the sky
Has in abundance
For the rich gals

And the grounds hides
Any promises
That I cannot keep
Like my ashes to sleep
The notes on this poem could be varied. But, be careful if your experience speaks more than your wisdom, because if you aren't silent, you will never learn.
May 2020 · 55
Stealin'
Aditya Roy May 2020
Hey, Bobbie
Why did you stop playing
Your harmonica

Cause you got the blues
And the music is the soul
Of a whole town
Looking for the truth

Hey, Dave
Why did stop getting Pink
Did you stop to think

Cause you got the blues
And the whole town
Went looking for the truth
And ended up with a broken guitar too
A blues number...
May 2020 · 52
On the road
Aditya Roy May 2020
In a stretch of cement highway
It is too ruinous and marked by yellow
I do hate the truth

So they tell me change the world
Let that be said by young fellows
I cannot bring happiness
To myself
Let alone a sea change

I may be walking
But my mind is on the lies
That I shall tell to myself
All love's a stage
In the sunset of blue liquour

Where a perfect circle table lamp
Celebrates my fiery pork *****
Lying on the hot deserted bed overlooking me
Tells me move over in the bright morning

You are taking up light and space
Sometimes blocking the way in the diner
Getting in trouble with another waitress
Then, I sit in my chair

My girl tells me write
I delve in my delinquent mind
It begins a soliloquy
On the road, on the road far away
Taken from a title of a book. Or is it a figure of speech.
May 2020 · 26
Broke
Aditya Roy May 2020
I don't want to be
Another statistic
So I pray
That I get a number
In some factory
As I rack my brain
On the prisoners' train
A poem on the Holocaust
May 2020 · 31
Twist of fate
Aditya Roy May 2020
Mama died
Writing a will or her obituary
I think I got the two mixed up
So, I went to the bank
To ask for a reading of the will
They told me that the will
Was in the process of being processed
I asked them how can someone be dead
And their deed be in a rut
They told me, she hadn't died
She was in the hospital with her jaw broken shut
Neighbors heard some barking and shouting

I landed in lockup for a first-degree
With my injured knuckles
Knuckles is also my dog...
******* bit me.
May 2020 · 33
A hymn
Aditya Roy May 2020
I look around at the benches, they are full
They ask you the same questions

Dear Father,
I haven't to talked
To you

I am looking outside
Myself
Never above or into myself

A kingdom where the robin sings
And the children play with the birds

I have one in my head
And one in my heart
I whisper a prayer for them

When I sit in front of Jesus
Who stares wistfully
I wonder if his kindness is blind
I was looking for inspiration. It never saw me walk in.
May 2020 · 61
Virtue of Romance
Aditya Roy May 2020
I don't believe in love
Because it always
Has two parties
One has a story to tell and the other dies early

I don't believe in sentences
Because lovers can finish them for one another
When they feel like it
Or if they are alive

I don't believe in crime
If it is to be in love
Then I don't believe what I say
God tells me things, he's a little voice that tells me be kind

I don't listen to voices
When they tell me don't believe others
I just choose loneliness
I can spend counting the stars, thinking of her

So, believe in yourself
Love is the answer
May 2020 · 40
Short love stories
Aditya Roy May 2020
I like to write
About love in short
Because what comes next
Is always unexpected

I like to write about
Heartbreaks in length
Because a soul is lost
After it is broken

I like to write about
Broken hearts in short
Because what comes next
Isn't "always"
Just an observation.
May 2020 · 30
Blessing in disguise
Aditya Roy May 2020
I listen to your stories
Searching for a blessing
In disguise, all I see is
You and me, stark naked
Near a fire, another blessing
Disguised by the warmth of our closeness
Fluttering and crackling
Much like our drowsy eyes
That see a lot, but, speak more
Let us talk with our eyes
They are much more honest
Than the disguise of blessed words
One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. - Gustave Flaubert
May 2020 · 29
Live Without
Aditya Roy May 2020
You are the sunshine
I cannot live without
Not unlike a kid
Garmented in innocence

You are the rain
I cannot live without
Quite in likeness to tears
I cannot stop from falling

You are the sunshine of my life
And my rain on a cloudy day
An essential weather report that I adore
That's why I need you more
It's not raining these days. But, there is a cyclone on the way.
May 2020 · 226
The Daylight Creeper
Aditya Roy May 2020
With the first sign of rebirth
Came the gift of time, extended
In its renewal and revival, further
Offering the restoration of friendly relations
All done as an act of reconciliation between progress
As well as forgiveness asked of our mothers, everyday
Within such gifts intended for the common crowd
It is at the stroke of the halcyon hour
That we forget our sorrows and crumble like bricks
What is of this sad ending that we talk of, intentionally
That plagues the essence of the mind which is white as snow and trembling
Only cloudy days can show us the purity of ice
When the clouds do subside, the sweetness that preside
All talk is forced into stony silence under the dark night
Through the mad-sort of palace of time
Where there is a time to withdraw into the study of history
Ashes to ashes as well as fire to fire
Dwelling in a cold curlicle of a silent galvanized gate at a cemetery
Behind a rose garden, where the woodpeckers beak at the windowpane
Rusted beyond recognition broken into windy submission
Such things are built for no purpose and no future promise
Only to sustain posterity and labour
Not to make use of Earthly resources
An old man still waits for the rain
Saying that he is hiding behind the arras of an isolated house
Where the sepulchre is hidden under a rock tattered by zephyr
A string of creeper prostrate themselves, whimpering
That ostensibly grow, under the shadow of a thatched roof
Only to never be seen again in daylight
Of rebirth and redemption
Such is the creeper in the daylight
That lives in utter recluse and retreat
A long poem. Try taking the time to go through it.
May 2020 · 158
In A Sway
Aditya Roy May 2020
Say you can be my lover
Do we deserve this
Staying together
But so far away

I am all dressed up
Standing in the hallway
You ask me if I am done
My head is in a sway


I cry and make up
I know we can make it
We two have to whisper
Let me go

Can you stay this summer
Is this the last beautiful summer
My heart sings like a mockingbird
For you, without flight in a cage

If I call
Catch me
You know
I cannot fly without you

Before I fall
If you have a choice
I can make the most of
Let me know

I will be the best, that choice is yours
Let me tell you
I will leave you
By midnight, near the rear window

When your heart is aching
I will stay close
No more
As I cannot trust your broken wings

So that I don't break
Everytime you cry
I just laugh
And die trying to stay

It is stupid and crazy
Just like a mockingbird
Singing in the morning
Trying to harmonize us in a way

In our last summer
Asking us to stay
This way
We can fly, my mind's finally in a sway
A song I wrote.
May 2020 · 29
Call Me Too
Aditya Roy May 2020
I don't know what she meant
By that
She loves me so
She keeps her mind
On my heart and soul
Just because she is a woman
And she loves talking
The night never goes
The golden sun will come on
When we grow up
Tell me more
I bet you can
Sure you are talking a lot
But the words I need come out rarely
I wanna hear you say
That you wanna leave with me
I just need your lovely kiss
I need another moment
To recover from this disease
Called love and loneliness
That is contagious and best shared
Together in a room
Love poem at night. It is as honest as I can be.
May 2020 · 31
Stoic
Aditya Roy May 2020
I could write
A thousand, "I love yous"
But my heart would still be silent
May 2020 · 284
Nirvana
Aditya Roy May 2020
The person upstairs
Hasn't lost faith in you
He just comes downstairs
To put you on a level
You can jump from
And keeps doing that
Till you reach Heaven
That is Nirvana
May 2020 · 27
Journey
Aditya Roy May 2020
Why do the saddest
Laugh the loudest
Because they stopped giving a ****
When they were jeered at
That is no journey
May 2020 · 321
Judge me
Aditya Roy May 2020
If I wrote my words
In blood
Would it be in vein
Word challenge: vain
May 2020 · 52
Time be tattered
Aditya Roy May 2020
Through my jagged
Rhymes mine and yours
My time be tattered
My words cloaked by daggers
Rusting and broken-unclipped
Slightly tragic
Shall have some lyric
Inasmuch much ragged pith
If your love is for us dogged creatures
It finds a prickly finish
Much like a yellow rose that hides
In a thorned spine
Tearing your fabric
To reveal your true nature
Based on an Middle English poem.
May 2020 · 20
Reality
Aditya Roy May 2020
Squeeze yourself
Just a pinch
If you can, you can dream on
To those who think anybody can be perfect in their skin, they are right.
May 2020 · 470
Empty Bottles
Aditya Roy May 2020
When the bottle
Opens
I write my emptiest emotions
Haiku...
May 2020 · 99
Burning
Aditya Roy May 2020
Through the burning heart of the sun
Till my thighs lose their tenderness
I shall scurry
Through wet ripe whirpools
Tills bones pick at the bellowing darkness
I shall speak such words
Till the air turns sour
Part 6
May 2020 · 51
Lost in oblivion
Aditya Roy May 2020
Abstention nor rejection, the distinction of her heart
Soul or soulless, my flight shall take me wherever
Flesh or fleshless, my heart will know fervor
As I finally leave a broken heart and ride in the galloping oceans, I shall wait
In the jet black night my body aches in pain and rejecting-oblivion
Part 5
May 2020 · 82
Holes
Aditya Roy May 2020
My heart has been yanked from its place
The cold fever has turned my head into a fading disgrace
Someday, the bottled ocean shall find its heart's rest place
The paleness shall leave me
The waves will stop moving so much
I just might place the words in those holes to describe peace
Final part
May 2020 · 95
Her world
Aditya Roy May 2020
Abstaining not rejecting, my love's memoir regarding my primrose bouquet
Soul or soulless, my garden will grow grey
Flesh or fleshless, my heavy heart everytime shall know flight
I know I cannot reminisce her face without unrest
As I shall finally know neither arrest nor movement like the solace of rain
In the jet black night my body writhes in pain
Part 4
May 2020 · 106
Electric Fuzz
Aditya Roy May 2020
The mussels clap to the sunrise
Much like a **** that singeth a boisterous hymn to the arriving new light
I live for the howling fires of sun sets
When the bottle opened, I remembered the buzz
The night I loved you to explore a bottled emotion
To become a thrilled sailor on the electric fuzz
Part 3
May 2020 · 190
Like yesteryears
Aditya Roy May 2020
The starlight like a wind races to cover the sky
Spilling the sands of time into the oceanic blue tides
When the moon comes to bring the inside of a bellied whale to shore
The ocean, crystalline, dazzles in the greatness of such lore
Almost as if a dream of nerves less and muscles more
Part 2
May 2020 · 88
I shall wade
Aditya Roy May 2020
In the depths of bottled oceans
Beneath the tides of scuttling waves where I find seagulls none
Where fish stride the torrential current
Reside in patience as they turret
Only to find themselves in the shelter of midnight
Oh so gay, without a reason to prise elation tonight
Part 1
May 2020 · 128
If
Aditya Roy May 2020
If
Your arms
Can carry the sun

The sunshine is on your shoulders
Because the light overflows

If you only looked at me
You could make me happy with a hug
I feel horrible.
May 2020 · 189
Just The Two Of Us
Aditya Roy May 2020
There is nothing between us
Since we are
Together, forever
Maybe just air..
May 2020 · 33
Tranquil
Aditya Roy May 2020
I wish I could be
Surrounded by the sea
Looking at the horizon
Drowning
Sort of anticlimax.
May 2020 · 21
Stranger Things
Aditya Roy May 2020
I dislike strangers
Sheltered from the truth
I cannot relate to someone who has never traded places
I feel like dying inside
Do you

If I have stranger things
In my attic
Don't ask me tell you why
Instead you shall dwell
On the road to hell
You belong to

Don't break my wall
If you can't take a brick
To your foot, as you crawl
Over the fences
That surround you

If you cannot tell me poetry
Makes you feel naked
Then, don't judge me
Instead, take my place
I don't deserve it
I really am serious to those people who judge me relentlessly. You can condone doing drugs, but, not other vices. Shame on you
May 2020 · 33
Mystic River
Aditya Roy May 2020
My light flickers in a golden sun
Turning like the clock in my deserted room
The sunlight has the nebulous sunflowers facing it and turning away
The bees and trees, I hope for Providence's blessing, will stay

Some there whilst barely present
Like some form of mysticism in this beaten shade
In this vast ecosystem that resembles a dream or diary written in the dark
Lay on the Galis of this forest, obscuring itself in the channel

The sunflowers hide or choose to prise themselves from the storm
Fluttering in azure breeze later on
Providing milk and honey to those clasping wasps
Admitting to nature that has tossed and desiccated them

It is a lust for life
That paints these scenic motions
Also sculpted the landscape where it occurs
That slips and slides with grace
Alongside the mystic river of consciousness
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
May 2020 · 47
Any Color You Like
Aditya Roy May 2020
You can steal someone's
Trust and love
You can never steal their words
That caresses the condensation on windows
You may not like what I look like
Tall and black
You cannot change me however
So, get busy painting me any colour you like
During our one sided conversation
Many poets say that their work is stolen or used by other thieves. But, we are makers of what we see. We are God's precious gift.
May 2020 · 51
Looking for Susan
Aditya Roy May 2020
I walk through the airport exit
All of my bags are in place
So I pick them up hastily

The flight had all the sandwiches
Champagne, I could ask for in first class
Maybe, a cosy hotel reservation now

Maybe, I flew around the world
To know I missed you and your flowers
Or to get rid of the **** weeds growing in my garden all this time
Based on a dark comedy.
May 2020 · 24
First Love
Aditya Roy May 2020
If you broke my heart
I'd fall through the cracks
In love again
By request of Harshit Nangia
May 2020 · 45
The Look Of Flowers
Aditya Roy May 2020
My lover is exigent like silence
In divergent streets
Looking for the thunder and lightning
We meet eye to eye without malice

With some rumors hushing into oblivion
Making conclusions on the wall
She looks from the exiguous corner of her eye
At my white and brown turncoat, to look at my pallor

I tip my hat to Mark S and Traveler
In suits, loitering in the dark
The soul violates the laws of physics
It now stretches thin and turns violet at the corner

It must be moist and hazy at dusk
The ships are bound to sail
The harbours are waiting patiently for dark
Without air to breath, I loosen my neck

I beckon to my companion, tell me her name
She has poetry with lyric and passion
But, she hasn't a point to make
Then she says, I don't like flowers

They make us seem vain
Where do I go now, she has my attention
I take a seat in the bar near the Waterloo station
The chiming clouds signal rain

I may never go out, as Lori walks hand in hand
From the ashes, I take my cigarette
Offering her a **** to smoke for a phantasmagoria
As the midnight comes to a calm
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
Mark S, here's to you
Word challenge: phantasmagoria
May 2020 · 61
11:11
Aditya Roy May 2020
It is 11:11 now
In one minute
I will cry more
Than the entire day
Dry tears
Remembering our late night talks.
May 2020 · 27
God of small things
Aditya Roy May 2020
Be kind
For those you meet
May never know kindness
Based on a Socrates quote.
Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
May 2020 · 41
Spread joy not hatred
Aditya Roy May 2020
Insults are as
Barren as the
Desert wind that takes them
My lines derived from something I read a long time ago
May 2020 · 62
Wild and free
Aditya Roy May 2020
You are wildest forest
A leopard roams free in
A stream never dries
A fire is alive in your belly
Wild and free

You are the greenest leaf
On a breathless bush in the wind
I kiss you in this rustling wind
Since, because it is gentler
Than my empty words
Words that are empty are best left unsaid. Homer
May 2020 · 58
Hands on
Aditya Roy May 2020
I love your face
Your kisses
Matching the traces of red
I look forever
For a girl in a small world

They say my love is too big
For this small world
Listening to some romantic songs.
May 2020 · 24
Fire Sermon
Aditya Roy May 2020
I saw a dog on the street
His kindness followed me
He never made it to my mass, quite a pity
Doesn't understand God any more than a boy on a swing
Doesn't go to school, either
All they do is preach
Teaching us how to con heaven's door
When we fail

Where will we go
I don't understand you anymore
You don't understand I am a forgotten orphan
Sometimes, you cannot hear me in the shadows of my room
Yet, the priest asks me how is my life
I cannot even pray for a better life
Kindness cannot be taught
I pray for kindness, the dog believes I deserve it
Taken from the title of an Eliot poem.
May 2020 · 36
The Wings
Aditya Roy May 2020
Like a father needs a son
A son needs a mother
If we part can you tell me
How are you my son?
Standing on the Marti Gras parade
Do you love us and live in the trees without us
Come down and be with our folks
The trees will live
The sun will come
Soon, the prodigal son will return
The evening will pass and your mother awaits your return
The sky will fold into a cloud
All things shall come to pass
All you need are the wings to fly
Let the skies unfurl your glorious heart
My phoenix haired boy in red toga
Standing on the sea shells and floating in the evil breeze
Singing the blues with the flapping waters
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
May 2020 · 38
My Gentle Reminder
Aditya Roy May 2020
When it's gentle and calm
It is said to heal all
In a way that we sleep with ease
Those who live with ease
Live freely
May 2020 · 48
Deeper Connection
Aditya Roy May 2020
In Odessa, the Turkish have conquered the part of the world
I cannot get your honey for a *** of gold
As you make pure art out love so secret
Love is like the brush strokes of the sky administered with thirst
We watch paintings in the morning
With a cup of coffee in the evening
The world has not changed from the Byzantine period
The stars are still far and the fault still lies in us
Caesar conquered more than he could adore
Yet, I will treat you as a clam treats its pearl
Rounded around it like a sleeping boy
A secret society was formed in 1814 to overthrow the Ottoman Empire, in Odessa which is in Ukraine.
May 2020 · 33
It Isn't Right
Aditya Roy May 2020
Hey, lover
I know you don't want to be my flower
I wish I could see you bloom like a princess
My mistress, I escape my fears and favors
You do that everyday in the form of a metaphor
Called love for money and ***

Hey, babe
The skies may not be blue in the evening
We can be together like Heracles and Megara
These are two truths I cannot stage
Because the skies don't live a lie
I cannot change the outcome of books

You said that's the truth and found love
We were supposed to fight the world
Instead, you left the dogs in Hell
You insisted that they would find Heaven
The hell hounds chase me like a charm and contain my mind's pleasures
Slightly esoteric one
May 2020 · 155
The Clear Choice
Aditya Roy May 2020
There are more ways
To fall in love
Than to preserve hatred
You just have break someone
Till they cry and learn more about you
In the teared up eyes
The love seems clearer
It is evidenced in messy hair
Tear-stained pillows
Torn wrists and dry throat
A spillage of pills on the dressing table
She was looking at herself in the mirror
Before she made the choice to love
Love is beautiful
Tears are pure
Heartaches are common
May 2020 · 34
A Sawdust Motel
Aditya Roy May 2020
I will tell myself, in mutters
My prayers matter
Soon, my higher power shall sail away into a sawdust motel
Like a message in a bottle

This world is made of winners and losers
I have told myself I can't win
Yet, I always win because without winners
There are unrequited lovers

I tell myself that the leaves will stay on trees
When it is Autumn, I am proven wrong about my chances
I am an unrequited lover
I search for love in sawdust motels
The truth is for the alive. Because they can't live with the abundance of lies.
May 2020 · 34
Misery
Aditya Roy May 2020
She loved
Love stories so much
That she never learned to love
How does this work, guys?
Guys?
Where are you...
May 2020 · 20
Closer
Aditya Roy May 2020
I want you to come closer
Yet, I feel that the time is not right
It is when you scatter away like a jellyfish
Orifices and any rock could not hide
A sweet smile meant only for me shall decide

Summer shall soon bring hot weather
Like the rain brings the sunlight
I am the closest to you in a secret wish
More than what is inside
You will find me by the tide
A small love poem. Although the definition of love and small has changed.
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