Tahirih Manoo: Favorites

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Sumit Bhaintwal

He got his third birthday present;
A brand new 24-piece crayon set.
But he loved the most,
the second color from the left;
So used it all, with others intact.

Tomorrow is his birthday;
He is now thirteen.
He has ten 24-piece crayon sets;
Each missing the color green.

#missing #tomorrow #present #birthday #crayon

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Do I Even Love You?

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Mrs Ashley Somebody

Do I Even Love You?

Should I drive you from my mind?
Shall I stop my heart?
Or are you even close to me?
Do you play a special part?

I forget to think of you
When I am alone,
And I can't say I like to say
Our names in a loving tone.

I admire you, I know that,
But are you in my soul?
Have I even written your name?
Or imagined us on a stroll?

In fact, am I infatuated?
Or do I fancy it
So that my heart longs to feel,
And yet, it doesn't?

I don't know what I'd do
If you suddenly loved me,
And I don't know what I'd say
If your eyes began to see.

Perhaps my heart's run out of love--
Perhaps I am a yawn:
Too tired to think romantic things
And to friendship go beyond.

Finally, I have defeated
A meaningless urge:
The wish to be your only one,
Under tiredness submerged.

I don't have a crush on you at all. I don't know why I thought I did. What a relief.

#love #friendship #weird #no #tired #imagine #lazy #finally #infatuated

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Strum

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Madeysin

Strum

The last time I heard "Beethovens 5 Secerets", I was in your arms. Writing amazing poetry. It came on tonight, ***** shuffle. My heart stopped & I danced & for the first time in weeks I didn't have to miss you, because your feet were next to mine...

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Will I Desire You Every Night.. OR

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Melancholy of Innocence

Will I Desire You Every Night.. OR

Oh Beloved LOVE
What you brought for me?
a LOVER?

Will this lover hug me?
OR
Will this lover crucify me?

Will love rule the mind?
OR
Will machine rule the heart?

Will sun shine brightly like this everyday?
OR
Will industrious mind-smoke of pollute our lives?

Will I be able to breathe easily in LOVE?
OR
Will I be on oxygen for rest of my life?

Will my love flow for you forever?
OR
Will my love become a subject of psychological study?

Will my love suffice to fulfill your desires?
OR
Will you lynch me alive and devour me?

Whenever in discord will my love break the wall?
OR
Will new walls built insulating my LOVE from yours?

Will mine and your family get gather as one?
OR
Will our families too break up into nuclear ones?

Will my LOVE color your LIFE?
OR
Will my blood color my bed-sheets?

Will my LOVE messages reach you by technology?
OR
Will technology distort our relationship?

Will we merge into one-another?
OR
Will our union end our LOVE?

Will I still write LOVE poetry for you everyday?
OR
Will I desire you every night?

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Ships&Ships

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Lindy

Ships&Ships

Someone, please tell me why I set ships to sail
Why I build them intent to fail
I fret and follow them from the shore
Eyes ******* up distinction to see,
Sure that maybe one among them all
At least one will come return to me.

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Nalipasan

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Ayelle Garcia

Nalipasan

Bigkis ng nakaraang napagtanto,
Kamalayang pawang kay gaan.
Pero sa malay ba ng musmos na santo
Kung panaginip ba or mapaglaro ang nagdaan.

Hindi ko lubos iisipin kung mag-isa ang hangin
Sa pagtulak ng mga batingaw,
Bagkus umusbong na ang talinghaga't tingin
Sa musmos na pumanaw na sa katotohanang pumukaw.

one of the rare times I write poems in the Filipino language, and it's hard to translate some of the words cause they're deep and the meaning changes. but props to the rare times I write in my native language.

#growingup #childhood #pinoy #2015 #innocencegone

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Bleed

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

L

Bleed

I hope that the shard of my heart you still hold turns to glass and slices open the delicate skin of your palm

I mean that in the nicest way

**
Leigh

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Safe

Jun 2015 Tahirih Manoo

Alexandria Hope

Safe

Melancholy tongs wind, little music box, tell me the secret
To fields of daisies, that golden gaze,
You lifted me within your arms, I was charmed,
Watched the heat from your hat imprint upon your brow,
We melted along mainstreet, as your song rang through,
Throwing out twirling notes into the falling world
I heard, in the quiet after a chord, we swayed
Reaching for applause like panting dogs on a hot summer's day