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Winter season,
grey colorless skies
Silence,
audible in the distance.
Empty feeling in crowded house.
Long, chilly nights, dead water streaming.
Veins with cold blood, stuck.
Passion in black clothes, not breathing.

The year is moving, Spring in birth canal.
Waiting to be born.
I think of you, lying beside you .
I dream of movements of bold trees.
It excites me.
I know it’s wrong but in my mind it’s full blown spring.
A white cloud is coming to me.
Like a bride in cotton candy.
Thinking of you, no more winter skies.

I close my eyes.
In my mind there you are.
There is an explosion of fire in the sky.
Summer in your eyes,
reflecting colors of a sky, burning.
I’m drifting.
It’s summer in my head and my mind is singing.


With passing time,
new days
new seasons
new loves
New memories.
Time, essential to it all.


Shell✨🐚
Time, day, night, new month, new season.
New year.
You are  the sum of time.
I’m a Bengali in sombrero
An Indian from Kolkata
I live at a stone’s throw
From where flows the Ganga.

I speak in Bengalee
For me the sweetest language
Like the Ganga flows freely
Has Sanskrit as lineage.

Rice is my staple food
So are dal and fish
A cup of tea is too good
With two biscuits on a dish.

Around me spreads green countryside
Where grows all the foodgrain
Rivers flow wild and wide
Their banks home joy and pain.

I was born and reared in this riparian land
Where soil is tilled in peasants’ sweat
Sparkles in moon the Bay’s white sand
Weaving dreams for many a poet!
 Feb 22 Nylee
Maddy
Children
Taught them
Teach those that do
Nieces and nephews galore
Violent crime took the opportunity away when she was younger
Maybe that is why Mothers and Fathers Days are hard for many reasons
Yet,he loves her
Yet,she loves him
Never meant to be but
Love conquered all so cruelly taken
Embalming
your memory
the funeral
dragged on
Returning
the remnants
that pain
had prolonged

The pallbearers
stationed
each side
of the grave
A grieving
reminder
that time
— had enslaved

(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)
 Feb 22 Nylee
Safana
She is my sunrise, Sadiya!.
In the beautiful sun hot,
she is like the icy.
In the mid-afternoon,
she is the sweetest air to breathe.

And my lovely in the green evening.
In the bright evening,
Sadiya, she is my sunset.
In the late evening,
she is my beacon.

O' come, queen of my night.
O' come, queen of my morning.
O' come, I am a sacrifice for your love.
O' come, let me live for you.
O' come, let me die for you.

Death . . .
the great equalizer.

The surest cure
to brazen  ambition .

Kings , Queens , princes and Popes ,

Generals , dictators , and those with false hopes .

As evil does , so it will be .

Fall so fast and hard
toppled like a cedar tree .

The vine's been cut
the branches wither

All the fruit so vile and bitter

All will burn in the heat of fire ,

the briars and vines and wooden liars .
He said they all gotta move along -
Go somewhere else from Gaza
“To a fresh beautiful piece of land”.
Well how about Mar a Lago.
That's a beautiful piece of land.
I have another good idea
Golf courses are very fresh and green;
A lot of beautiful open land
Scattered all around the world.
Perfect for the “little houses”
He will instantly provide.
And Gaza?   "We will own it."
      ljm
Panama and Greenland weren't enough?
 Feb 20 Nylee
Vianne Lior
Between dusk’s silk hush,
cobalt’s bruised baptism,
your name lingers—
citrus ruin, cataclysm curling honeyed
beneath tongue,
marrow of memory I can’t swallow.

Mouth pressed to night’s carotid,
drunk on pulse of unsaid things,
but stars—gluttoned, devoured,
marrow siphoned into
opulent throat of nothingness,
galaxy fasting on itself.

Breath—once dialect of embers,
molten psalms unraveling between ribs,
but silence has learned anatomy,
nests in mouth,
cathedral of unsung requiems,
elegy blistering at roots of tongue.
Trained to kneel,
choke on absence,
sacrament for the starved.

Somewhere, time folds into vesper,
curls bitten lip,
hymn chewed to vowels,
and I—ghost of unfinished sentence,
ruin waiting for eclipse of mouth
bold enough to pronounce me.

For R.
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