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 Oct 2013 Qadriah
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exchange my flaws
for a goddess'
characteristics
personality
mischevious
spontaneous
opti­mistic

exchange my heart
for one made of gold
maybe I would be
treasured then
by the ones
I need in
my life
© Natali Veronica 2013.
not a great poem but posting it anyway.
 Oct 2013 Qadriah
K Balachandran
Poetry is the dress she always adorns herself,
the see-through floral patterns reveal her more-
than conceal, my eyes imbibe its aesthetics in the fraction-
of a moment and to tell the truth, they are thankful.
Poetic is her walk, her rhythmically swaying buttocks-
subtly speak by allusion of genetic possibilities vast;
in her movement's poetry  my lineage would be safe.
Her lips part, the warmth, ruddy pout and perfect shape suggest
her sensual love making  wound be both tender and swirling
like the  poetic feeling, an image unleashes to overpower me to surrender.
Poetry makes its essence look like a fine silvery glint
in those deep eyes, that have a sensual droop in the eyelids.
Arrows straightly directed to my tender heart, from the bow of her chest
contrary to the normal, creates a cadence, poetic utmost !
She is,  nothing but poetry in motion, rooted in beauty's repository,
that never will fully drain,  even if the most she makes her own  often.
I like fresh vacuum lines on carpet.
I also like American flags that are hanging inside someone's house.
I like putting clothes on immediately after they come out of the dryer and I like falling asleep in a hammock.
I also really dig mini-fridges or drinking the first glass of an unopened 2 liter soda.
I like girls that laugh at my jokes and I like them more if I laugh at theirs.
I really really like sun roofs, especially at night.
Speaking of night, I also get very happy when I flip to the cold side of my pillow or get so tired that everything is hilarious.
I also need to have a cover on even if it's extremely hot and I really prefer having a static background noise like a fan or air conditioner.
I get anxious when I hear my heart beat.
I get excited whenever I'm on a long drive home and I see the first red light of my hometown.
I like romantic indie movies.
I like watching romantic indie movies with other romantic indie movie lovers.
I like the front camera on cell phones.
I like singing really badly to 90's songs with a bunch of other people who sing really badly to 90's songs
I like sunshine too...

But I really really really really like you...a lot.
 Oct 2013 Qadriah
Rangzeb Hussain
We are the weeping children of far distant desert lands,
We are the daughters nourished upon the ink of olive branches,
The stubble of our village was shaved off without news or trace,
Life’s bittersweet aftershave of memory still stings to this day.

We are the children with forlorn hands and forgotten faces,
We are those who have suckled the milk of honey and grief,
Our school is entombed beneath an avalanche of oppressive lies,
Our tongues string and weave the haunting tunes of broken trust.

We are the girls dressed in rags caressed by death’s pernicious smile,
We are the orphans who shelter in cemeteries dug by men of war,
Our eyes sparkle and glow with a kaleidoscopic firework of fear,
The carnation of our youth will be stitched into dry dead wreaths.

We are the sisters who buried the flowers that were our brothers,
We have frolicked under the barbed shadow of death’s high wall,
Our toys are plucked from the palm of dates sweet with our hopes,
The fresh fragrance of deliverance shall one day perfume our nation.
This was written to mark the International Day of the Girl.
 Oct 2013 Qadriah
ECKate
Untitled
 Oct 2013 Qadriah
ECKate
Had I pen instead of keyboard I might shred the paper out of bittersweet anger
drab thoughts, remorse
I'm a zombie, just a corpse.

Had I pen I might let the ink bleed ,
unsure of my thoughts and what I might say, instead the curser blinks away

Had I no intellect to stay silent,
I would try to interrogate, scream, just to understand.
I guess that's just what a woman sometimes gets from a man.

This is a bad hour; emotions drained beyond the waking norm.
Disappointment reads thick in thoughts,
each ticking moment set it in,
without means to rewind the clock. stop.

but had I brakes, I might have used.
Might have thought it through
On how cliche , might of thought of what this could do.
It is what it is he did say,
And all along I knew.

© 2015 Kate Volk
 Oct 2013 Qadriah
healy walsh
i don't know what i'm doing
i say too much or don't say enough

i tell my secrets to unworthy people but withhold from the ones i care dearly

they're the ones i don't want to think i'm crazy
 Oct 2013 Qadriah
Anggita
Dahlia
 Oct 2013 Qadriah
Anggita
She wore a black dress
Within her red lips
She took her heels
It spread the sound
Of knocking door

She walked to the pub
Discovering the night
She entered the room
Men gave applause
"Yeah you dahlia!"

She preened herself
She got all the eyes
The men crawled
By admiration
For being so drunk

She left lingering kisses
And un-erased touches
And abandoned senses
Of ******* reality
To reach an eternity
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