Zywa - Hello Poetry

Zywa Apr 12

He's vulnerable,

just look at the craquelure --

over grandpa's eyes.

Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2-11 "Revelations"

Collection "Low gear"

#grandpa #oldage #ailments #craquelure

Zywa Apr 12

For 5,000 years,

people have been dreaming, will --

they ever wake up?

Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2-9 "The Kolynos Kid"

Collection "Low gear"

#religion #belief #mankind

Zywa Apr 11

Ghosts see everything,

including us, like we see --

them: vaguely present.

Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 3-3 "Sam and the Tiger"
Collection "Low gear"

#ghosts

Zywa Apr 11

Her hatred sits there

like a gecko, I can smell --

its stench of *****.

Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2-15 "How Saleem achieved purity"

Collection "Low gear"

#hatred

Zywa Apr 10

A night of *******

on sleeping bodies, and then --

the leeches explode.

Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 3-2 "In the Sundarbans"

Collection "Low gear"

#leeches #gluttony

Zywa Apr 10

Don't mourn for the dead,

grieve only for the living --

Do it for yourself.

Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 3-1 "The buddha" (old man)

Collection "Low gear"

#grief #mourn

Zywa Apr 9

The soldiers scurry

away from what I don't want --

and not can believe.

Novel "Midnight's Children" (1981, Salman Rushdie), chapter 3-3 "Sam and the Tiger"

Collection "Low gear"

#ethics #misdeed #war #soldiers