nivek: Poems

10w Tee Shirt Wars

nivek Sep 2023

10w Tee Shirt Wars

'Some', its said, 'have entertained Angels unawares'
makes you wonder

10w ten words

nivek Jul 2023

10w ten words

scaled back
whittled wood
wrung out
squeezed betwixt
a heartbeat

10w Ten Words Long

nivek Aug 2023

10w Ten Words Long

permanent regurgitation
constant puking
a word stream
ten words long

10w The Act Of Being Born

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Act Of Being Born

bloodied yet undaunted
scared witless yet continued
to breathe air

10w the aftermath of rain

nivek May 2017

10w the aftermath of rain

wellies and mud
puddle splash!!!

never did quite grow up!

10w the anchorite

nivek Jan 2020

10w the anchorite

the anchorite is walled up
with a small viewing window

10w The artform of nothing

nivek Jun 2024

10w The artform of nothing

saying less to say so much more
is an art

10w The Art Of Living Free

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Art Of Living Free

poet give away all your words
keep nothing for yourself

10w the 'beyond' of words

nivek Sep 24

10w the 'beyond' of words

too little, too much
words matter

carrying weight
beyond themselves

10w The Big Apple Tower

nivek Jan 2021

10w The Big Apple Tower

everyone knows one rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel

10w The Big Shift

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Big Shift

shifting continents
shifting loyalties
shifting emotions
shifting understanding
shifting education

10w the blame game

nivek Nov 2017

10w the blame game

the blame game
when you stop playing it

expect exile.

10w The Book Cover Reader

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Book Cover Reader

jumping into others skin like quickly putting on a uniform

10w The Business Of Solitude

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Business Of Solitude

Being on ones own
brings about such mystery
hardly containable

10w The Butterflies Song

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Butterflies Song

'Butterflies song' is seemingly silent
but you would be mistaken

10w The Choosing

nivek May 2016

10w The Choosing

to be an anonymous poet
lying in an unmarked grave

not everyone's life choices.. but hey! I could not be anything else

10w The Coming Together

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Coming Together

sailing the plane of freedom
a mind, body and soul

10w The Creators Love

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Creators Love

subjected within creation
becoming one

the creators mark
creators love

10w The Daystar

nivek Jul 2023

10w The Daystar

That daystar etches skin
tattoos black ink,
her lovers name.

10w the dead speak of life

nivek Oct 2020

10w the dead speak of life

a dead person tells the truth of having once lived

10w The Defeat Of Cruelty

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Defeat Of Cruelty

the universal mind
coded empathy

rings out her tune
everywhere

10w the difference a word makes

nivek Feb 2024

10w the difference a word makes

the spoken word
now released
travels the Universe
-forever lived

10w The End Is Nigh

nivek Aug 2023

10w The End Is Nigh

its all a love hate affair
and affairs never last

10w the end of all matters

nivek Feb 2024

10w the end of all matters

one day enjoying lively conversation
the next
dead mutual silence

10w The Falling Walls Of Excuses

nivek Feb 2016

10w The Falling Walls Of Excuses

He sends doves of peace
and all my barriers disappear.

10w The Fantasy of Tomorrow.

nivek Jul 2020

10w The Fantasy of Tomorrow.

glimpses of tomorrow
come to inject
todays truth with junk

10w The Freedom Of Flowers

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Freedom Of Flowers

look up from your ruminations
see freedom beckoning to you

10w The Game Of Life

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Game Of Life

keep 'em guessing son
don't give away a winning hand

10w The Garden

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Garden

sheer variety of wild flowers is astounding
and colours, colours

10w the gateway

nivek May 2017

10w the gateway

there is a place beyond suffering
suffering itself the gateway

10w The Gaze Of Love

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Gaze Of Love

from outside creation
the creators eye

gazes in love
always

10w The Ghost Protocol

nivek Mar 2021

10w The Ghost Protocol

your ghost is very familiar
with haunting known frequented places.

10w the gift and the wound

nivek Oct 2023

10w the gift and the wound

the gift of words
and their wound
never far apart.

10w The Great Songs Of Birds

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Great Songs Of Birds

sing a little as much as you can
- and listen

10w The Haunted Mind.

nivek Oct 2020

10w The Haunted Mind.

The haunted mind.
Myriad memories.
Imagination madness.
Stranger than fiction.

10w the Holy work of believing

nivek Sep 9

10w the Holy work of believing

victory in the believing
as certain as death
my child.

10w The Hunt.

nivek Jun 2020

10w The Hunt.

flesh buffed
swanky clothes

all the moves
humming latest tunes

10w The Journey is Everything

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Journey is Everything

to trudge up the mountain
cradled in adventure
and pain

10w the king is in the altogether as naked as the day that he was born

nivek Aug 8

10w the king is in the altogether as naked as the day that he was born

maga megalomaniac
wears the crown
to hide his balding scalp

10w The Lifelong Bump

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Lifelong Bump

Bumping into various familiar faces
and not all being welcome

10w the light in your eyes

nivek Feb 2024

10w the light in your eyes

a final heartbeat
last sigh
the vacant look
fading light.

10w The Lunatic In The Kremlin.

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Lunatic In The Kremlin.

untreatable full blown psychopath
with a nuclear arsenal on tap

10w the lunatics are taking over the asylum

nivek Jul 2024

10w the lunatics are taking over the asylum

empires wane
history witness
crumbled dust
eaten within
rampant corruption

title: a take on lyrics attributed to Pink Floyd

10w the mad and the bad

nivek Sep 2023

10w the mad and the bad

Rattling on their cages
the mad and the bad
vent.

10w Theme

nivek Oct 2020

10w Theme

theme, flow, running through
a poem, discourse, points of view.

10w Themed Muse, Mused Theme

nivek Aug 2023

10w Themed Muse, Mused Theme

theme more than muse
but could be,
that's my muse

10w The Mind of Mankind.

nivek Nov 2019

10w The Mind of Mankind.

a nebulous cloud.
which star

to follow?
to be found.

10w The Morgue Experience

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Morgue Experience

time your name tag be tied to your big toe

10w the mulling of dreams

nivek Aug 9

10w the mulling of dreams

open spaces filled to the brim
all connected interchangeable dreams

10w Then They Would Not Be 10w Poems

nivek Aug 2023

10w Then They Would Not Be 10w Poems

maybe if they were all strung together
- ten word poems