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Electric sun twirls its lava skirt.
Slammed woks.
Peanuts, chilli, limes and oil
Feeding him its lunch.
Shelter to chilli cheeks and peppercorn faces.
The air can't move its obese body to the rivers for a dip.

Darkness is hard with sturdy edges.
Curtains made of invisible beads and threads hang over the night in silence.
They spill against the concrete under rough hooves and feet
For the night falls like tight heavy lids.
Dusk is a bruised tunnel of vision.

Candlelit giants blinking rapidly.
You don't speak
For the night is never empty
The silence never lonely
Stampede of restlessness surrounding
Grinning from squint to squint
Raising embraces and chance encounters
They scream loudly to frighten the dawn.
© Teri Darlene Basallote Yeo
Jay Dayz May 2018
I found a place,
I found a home.
Within these halls
I can freely roam.

I heard the whispers
and endless calls;
I found a home
inside these walls.

Where letters roam
these open doors;
I let my voice
flow evermore.

A shelter from the outside storm.
A shelter where I found a home.
A place to share my love for poems.
A place where I can freely roam.
There's nothing as beautiful as finding a place where you belong, a place where you can hide from the storm of life and find beauty in streams of letters.
M May 2018
i am broken and bruised,
there's a scar in my heart
that's really difficult to erase.

i'm longing for a hug,
a warm embrace,
that could comfort me.

and then, i found you,
someone who i can rely on,
you're my shelter from the rain.

i found you,

my home.
Salmabanu Hatim Apr 2018
I am like a saint,
being kind to others is me,
Caused I was abused.
she
is cold
we can feel
her winter breath
she chills our napes
with her gelid icy hand
we take to our warming hearths
to shelter from her frostiness
she has no charity nor any compassion
how baleful her season of bitterness
Winter.
Thirty degrees.
Inside peering out. ‘Tis
Cold. But warm inside. Thanks for
Shelter.
Sam Mar 2018
I wanna let you know I’m there
You’ve stepped on spikes here and there
You’re sick of the world’s poisonous air
You’ve known true sorrow and despair
But this is not all of it I swear
Have you tried true love and care
Have you seen beautiful dreams rather than nightmares
Do you know you’re beautiful, beyond compare
You let me know you’re there
Your heated touch thrilled my heart and took me somewhere
To another dimension where I can exist for infinity in your stare
Which I don’t get much of, that’s not even fair
I wanna let you know I’m there
Forever with you, you have my hug to wear
In your embrace I felt immortal, it was heaven stair
As long as I’m with you, it’s perfect being anywhere
Don’t be fooled by others destruction, what we have is truly rare
Let our souls entwine as one, our hands hold, in this love we share
T R S Feb 2018
It blended eight bent branches

Curled a curved roof o'er-head.

With dead feelings; hurt, burnt, Dead.
Samreena Lodhi Feb 2018
From the departure of all worries
Refreshing beams from a source
In a new way with a bloom
Every passing moment is with this
No more troubles and no more pain
Destined for this path only to gain
Sailing through the winds on this thread
Hiking through the perils of this world
It's a relationship with your friends
Passage and shelter, from all trends
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