SilkenTongue Poetry - Hello Poetry

Sep 2020

Aparna

~☆~

haphazard gaze caught a star

alone,away

glimmering

through mists of time

IOU,
solitary,nebulous star✨

#star #night #glimmer

Sep 2020

annh

Old Telegraph Road

old telegraph road
clickety-clack
births, deaths and marriages
tappity-tap
did you hear the news?
yackety-yak

it is my duty to inform you...
flippity-flop
the pleasure of your company is requested...
clappity-clap
at 2:03pm (AEST) Monday, weighing 6lbs 7oz...
drippity-drop

old telegraph road
yackety-yak
eighty miles of cable
tappity-tap
biographies dotted and dashed
clickety-clack

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#biographies #births #dashed #deaths #dotted #marriages #news #old #road #telegraph

Sep 2020

Elizabeth Squires

Songs of The Requiem

beneath the ground many
thousands of souls lay

they had their lives
taken prematurely

songs of the requiem
play in remembrance

never shall the world forget
the disease's marring scar

that which dimmed a human's
light of existence

#coronavirus #deaths #songs #requiem #diseases #marring #scar #humans #light #existence

Sep 2020

Pradip Chattopadhyay

Snail's Pace

Keep distance, the Snail said,
I don't feel safe with humans around
and my pace makes me so vulnerable.

He took a deep breath and added,
do you ever feel my toil
to move from place to place
while the winds blow in gusts
and the world passes by like a storm?

My minutes tick like your hours
and hours days
as I climb the mountains of walls
cover furlongs of ground
rest and restart
never really knowing
where the path ends.

And you only add to my woes.

Your prank of a kick
rolls me back and down
all the way
to beyond from where I began.

A teardrop gathered in his opal eyes.

But it really doesn't matter,
a smile broke through the tears,

I see with all your pace
you're so far from happiness.

Sep 2020

Carlo C Gomez

The Girlfriends of Dorian Gray

~
We don't need
Other worlds
We need mirrors

We need thin waists
And a hysteresis curve
To the hips

Let us drink in the sea
And laugh as our number
Comes up

Let us commit
To be noncommittal
And talk nary a word

On age and death
Over afternoon tea
In the bright withered garden

Where the goodness of man
Longed to be more
Than its darkling reflection
~

#good #bad #decisions #love #relationships #literature #mortality #morality #lesson

Sep 2020

Aparna

(poetry stash)

surreal landscapes

juxtaposed;
                                tellurian sentiments

                                along ethereal lines

tell me,

does lavender bloom

betwixt stars?

#poetry #ethereal #journal