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 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Kim
Art
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Kim
Art
Rap out a rhythm of hope,
Sing me a song of despair,
Write a book of confessions,
Let laughter ring through the air,
Show the world your pictures,
Give them a taste of your words,
Let them drift toward you,
Carrying their stories- pain and mirth

However long the wait,
Whichever path you take,
Whatever breaks your heart,
Whosever heart you break
Let it always bring forth art, expression and form,
The age old remedy for the suffering and forlorn,
     Some say an artist must struggle, and sing songs of their hurt,
I say each individual feels the need to be heard

  So let's sing out our stories,
And adorn our walls,
With paintings in tribute,
Bearing witness to all
There’s no right and no wrong
When you’re sketching a song,
Painting a poem, or dancing along!
My poem may be yours indeed
In melody and tone,
If in its rhythm you can read
A music of your own;
If in its pale woof you can weave
Your lovelier design,
'Twill make my lyric, I believe,
More yours than mine.

I'm but a prompter at the best;
Crude cues are all I give.
In simple stanzas I suggest -
'Tis you who make them live.
My bit of rhyme is but a frame,
And if my lines you quote,
I think, although they bear my name,
'Tis you who wrote.

Yours is the beauty that you see
In any words I sing;
The magic and the melody
'Tis you, dear friend, who bring.
Yea, by the glory and the gleam,
The loveliness that lures
Your thought to starry heights of dream,
The poem's yours.
Why do poets and photographers love fleeting things?
Angled shafts of sunlight piercing a mass
of clouds. A rainbow flashing from dragonfly wings.
Water drops beading like shards of glass.

The fluttering shape of a sycamore’s shade.
The sun sinking into its reflection
In a purple bay.  Smoke’s shadow. The rayed
Curve of a finger reaching for perfection.

Whatever churns, bursts, rocks, flies,
Foams, flickers, roils, evades
In pigments of impermanent dyes
We try to fix before it fades

Once I mourned the endless dying  
Of here and now, the present always past
Elegized each moment, sighing
Beauty is loss and can never last.

But now I think I had it wrong.  In fact
(I learned this from an artist’s eye)
Fleeting beauty reappears faster than we react,
At the speed of a daydream flashing by.

All around, light coalesces into form,
Form explodes into light,
And we live lavishly inside this storm
If we can learn to see it right.

Beauty multiplies, tapering, swelling:
Reshaping, reforming, now familiar, now strange.
This gaudy blur in which we’re dwelling
Is the permanence of change.
This is still a work in progress.  Comments very welcome.
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Summer
We
Had
Youth

And
Real
Energy

When
Everyone

Laughed
In
Kindness,
Every

Time
Hands
Intertwined
Softly
i don't really like acrostic poems but
my beautiful sister,
why?
what made you plunge so deep into the darkness?
was the high just so enticing?
was it a craving for the sting of the needle
as you shoved it through your porcelain skin?
was our love not enough for you?
was it not enough for you to stay?
I wish I knew
why you hated yourself
so much
that your demons forced you
to crave the numbness
and you willingly listened.
I hate you for making my thoughts race,
Is she still alive?
Was there anything I could have done to
prevent this?

But I love you for leaving me with old childhood memories.
my beautiful sister,
please
I am begging
for you,
THE REAL YOU
to return home.
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Noah
Stars
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Noah
I gaze up at the stars,
Start filling with confliction
Parts of me are lost in space,
Just beyond my furthest reach

All that remains of me, it seems
Are twisted memories

The broken pieces left to die
As fragments in the sky
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Noah
Baby girl, I know what this is like for you
This distance between us hurts me too
But as long as you are mine
Then I am all yours too
I'm not the best of the best
I know I don't deserve you
But if you just give me the chance
I’ll live my life to make you happy
I don't want you to be afraid to open up to me
I want to be the one you come to with your problems
I want to be the one to hold you when life turns It's back on you
I swear to you,
You can trust me
If there's no one else
In the world
You can trust
Even still,
You can trust me
I want you to know that
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Noah
Cruel
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Noah
I don't pretend to be a fool
And I don't try to be cool
I just try to live a normal life
and turn my back to the cruel, cruel
world that I'm living in
full of temptations
good things come and go
but I have one thing that stays and it's
the only thing I trust because it
carries me away from this
cruel, cruel world that I'm living in
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Noah
Relapse
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Noah
***, drugs, money & music
it sounds like the dream
but it's just an excuse
and I wanna be clean
and I've tried to refuse
but it keeps calling me
and I'm afraid that I'll lose
all the good things in me
if I give in and use
but I'm in desperate need
Of a f*cking excuse

So one more time
I'll quit it tomorrow,
I just need one more night
to gather my thoughts
and leave my troubles behind
 Dec 2015 Sindi Kafazi
Noah
To be or not to be,
That is the question
That captivates my thoughts,
And haunts my dreams
To be or not to be,
This is the question
That haunts me

To be or not to be
That truly is the question
Gets lost inside
The troubled mind
And brings the heart
To question

Is pain a part of living?
Or is death life's great deception?
Is joy found in the journey?
Or is it a distant destination?

To be or not to be,
Is still the question
That haunts me
Until the day I lay
My soul to sleep
I'll draw my final breath and say,
To be or not to be
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