4 and 20: Short Form - Hello Poetry

Aug 2014

Tilly

Tempt not the silk beneath you, nor covet jewels aside.
Poisons' flow beseeching...*

Oh...
*The ways she'd make you die

(4:20)

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Jul 2014

bambi

luna moth

Can we speak of these certain vacant spaces
in my abandoned bedroom where the moon dwells
and shuttered creatures search their teeth
for a bloom of flavor and sun.

I'm surrounded by prosaic twilights--tenantless places--
where plaster perfumed by dormant fire
gapes with cavities and empty mouths
that seek him with their tongues.

Where darkness crawls on poppy seeds
on moths and reeds and shoes
to reach me in my consternation
now that his name has fled my lungs.

Today I sewed his note to my breast pocket
but it grew crescent roots like fingernails
and murmured that we were too young.

Homage to my dear Neruda and Number Six the sun to my moon.

May you be the last.

Jul 2014

K Balachandran

Wish fulfillment(4x20)

I wake up in a dream
and see you smiling,
in the kingdom of slumber
you are my only queen.

ആഗ്രഹ സാക്ഷാത്കാരം

ഒരു സ്വപ്നത്തില്‍ ഞാനുണരുന്നു
അതില്‍ നിന്‍ പുഞ്ചിരി കാണുന്നു
സുഷുപ്തിയാം സാമ്രാജ്യത്തില്‍
എന്‍ ഹൃദയറാണിയായ് നീമാത്രം.

#love #loss #fulfillment #wish

Jun 2014

K Balachandran

Ink blot world

Aren't we dreams complex that bloomed
in the garden of *Rorschach?
ink blots with hidden meanings
where ghosts of the past roam to pluck flowers

"Rorschach ink blot test" is a psychological test in which subject's perception of inkblots are recorded and analysed to examine a person's personality characteristics or emotional functioning.

#unknown #thoughts #hidden #depth #motives

May 2014

bambi

apple

I am stranger to the taste
of candor, honor, or courage

a bland and simple fruit.

Exceptional at nothing,
I am exceptionally nothing--

withered from the stem,
the whole way through.

However I have seen
the pallor in your cheek:
a tempting succulence.

Salvation rests beneath
your ripened skin.

I will break the unmarked flesh

I will learn

to be
honorable too,

once I have had

the whole of you.

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