zumee

zumee Jul 2020

...what you say is
what you think is
what you love is
what you are is

the breath

of a life
of an act
of a thought
of a word of...

Jul 2020

another anonymous writer

cigarettes

I smoked to fill my lungs
to **** the flowers that grew there
the ones you planted last december

#cigarettes #lungs #flowers #death

Jul 2020

Aditya Roy

Bayou Youth

It's a lovely day
I bring flowers for you from
A green bayou that has become muddied
With our memories

The books lay bare
Strewn like the reeds
And seaweed on the surface of the flimsy
Waters, where water lilies once lived

War and peace lives harmoniously
A cricket beats, a bird sings
The dead land breathes, and so do
I, where the water flows to

A poem I sent to a friend I completely admire. Safe to say, I had been waiting on her response. Seems that I am not doing too bad after over 2000 poems.

zumee Jul 2020

wealth inequality

rich get richer
poor get poorer
and poorer and poorer and...
talk is cheap
Silence: most can no longer afford

may you win the lottery today

Jul 2020

Unpolished Ink

Ants

A log is a log

Until you look underneath

Then it's a city

I find the discipline of a Haiku so simple and calming

#ants #haiku

zumee Jun 2020

meanings of life

to run a race
alongside a beetle

to tell a joke
to a tree

to hear a secret
from the ocean

to buzz a ballad
for a bee

to read the stories
of a feather

to sail a smile
on a breeze

to boil patience
in a kettle

to be appeased
by a pea

to gather courage
at a mountain

to eat a strawberry
with the leaves

to forgive
a mosquito

to find your self
and set it free

in no particular order :)