"enn" poems
So you think you know me,
For I tell you all I feel?
Enn Omane (my dearest),
I haven't even begun to say
What I fail to feel.
Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 12:11 PM UTC
My hands shake
my ankles ache
time slows down,
stops
then speeds back up again
I can't spell enn-ey-thing right.
Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015 at 5:26 PM UTC
Mín trega rapul við vegur av vatnast,
og blóðig gráta niðast báði og mín føvningur.
Mín glæstri oygdur svíkja mín ektaður grunur,
for Í føla so dimmi, álvuligur.
Innan Í skjóla.
Og innan har, Í fella burt, sum um Í hava tær doyggja,
og fella, um enn sum a dreygur fella.
Tú bjarga meg frá sjálvur.
Innan mín dimmi dagur, tú kom for meg.
Mín lethe. Mín ást. Mín vindrongur.
Takkar.
~Translation~
My pain falls by way of tears of water from my eyes,
and ****** tears down both of my arms.
My shining eyes betray my true thoughts,
for I feel so dark, not very happy.
Inside I hide.
And in there, I swooned away, as if I had been dying,
and fell away, even as a dead body falls.
You save me from myself.
In my darkest days, you came for me.
My lethe. My love. My friend.
Thank you.
(Inspired by Turid Torkilsdottir by Tyr and also one small part taken from "Dante's Inferno" The Epic Poem.)
Jul 26, 2011
Jul 26, 2011 at 6:57 AM UTC
TERE DIL ME RAHNE KA SHAUK THA HAMEE BETAHASHA ;
TERE SATH KII IS DIL KOO TALAB THI;
TERE LABH SE KUD KA NAAM SUNNE KA ZID THA…
TU ZINDAGI TOH PAHLE SEE THI MERI;
AUR SHYAD AB ZEENE KA KARAN BHI HOO *** …
CHAH KAR BHI TERE KARIB AANE SE DARTA HUU;
DIN RAAT TUJHE SOCH KAR BHI LABH *** LANE SEE DARTA HUU;
TIL TIL KAR TERE SATH KO MARTA HUU….
AUR KOI PUJHE TOH BAS, HAS KAR ITNA KAHTA HUU;
WO EK MUSAFIR THI JISKI MANJIL MAI NAA THA ;
WO EK CHAKOR THI JISKA CHAND MAI NAA THA;
WO EK DARIYA THI JISKA SAHIL MAI NAA THA…
EK BAR FIR SEE USKEE LIYE YEE DIL MACHAL RAHA HAI;
FIR SEE NAYE SAPNE DEKHNE KOO YEE DIL MAR RAHA HAI ;
KAISE SAMJHAUU IS NADAN PARINDEE KOO ;
KII TUU EK BAR FIR TUTNE KI OOR BADH RAHA HAI….
WOO KAHTE THE IS JHUTE ISK KI BATEE NA KIA KARO;
DIL TUMHARA HAMME CHOR KISI AUR KE LIYE BHI DHARKEGA ;
KUCH DIN ME AASHIKI KA BHUKAR BHI SAR SEE UTREGA ;
PAR AB KYA BATAE JANAB KOO ,
DEKHE UNHE TOH MANO EK ARSA SAA HOO GAYA;
PAR AAJ BHI WOO HAR EK PAL ENN SANSOO ME RAVA HAI;
AAJ BHI IS DIL ME BAS UNKI HI JAGAH HAI;
UNKI YAD ME AAJ BHI RAATE KATHI HAI HAMARI;
FARK BAS ITNA HAI HAMARI CHAHTE EK DUSRE SEE JUDAA HAI….
Sep 25, 2017
Sep 25, 2017 at 1:03 AM UTC
I kissed you, once. Twice. Three or four or five
Ecstatic times, or maybe more. I kissed
You once when I shouldn't have, many more
When I should have. In a park and with Red
October on the tee-vee and Sean Connery
Somehow pretending to be Russian.
I kissed you under the fireworks
On the Fourth, and in a caboose
At your family reunion. Remember
How we'd walk around at high school
Football games, back when anything
Was possible, and AIM was popular?
Over six times: there were marshmallows,
And the old, broken, Charlotte High School gym.
When I asked you out, I'd been dared.
The first time I kissed you, I was dared. That kiss,
Cliche and on the bleachers, brought
Butterflies that I only just fought off.
You, Ashleigh, were my first love, not named
"Wrestling"-- but I went to you-ess-enn-ay
And you went to em-ess-you. You moved
To greater Lansing from Port Huron
Just as I packed up my stuff to crisscross
My way over four years to San Diego.
I kissed you, once-- or was it more?
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 2:48 PM UTC
Snøfnuggene faller i tette strømmer
det føles som om de prøver å kvele bakken
som en maske endrer det landskapet
vårt landskap
svøpt i snø
liksom et silkeslør
drapert elegant over moder jords fyldige kurver
slik at skjønnheten forenkles
alikevel er det noe
bare en tanke
som sier at *** nå er vakrere enn noen sinne
det er som om snøen har rafinert henne
min moder jord
svøpt i silkemyk sne
vakrere har *** aldri vært
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 8:59 PM UTC
Ek sapna tha dekha
Hoga koe ghr mera v apna
Jo bsh hoga mera
Mere haaton s sicha hua
Koe na hoga kehene wala
Ki
tu praae ghr ki jaae h
Tu praae ghr s aae h
Fir na hoga sawal
Ki rabba tune kon s ghr k liye mujhe bnaae h
Pr zindagi k kitab k enn panno ko puri krte krte
Ush kitab k kuch pnne khali hi rh gye
Mere zindagi ki kuch khani adhuri hi rh ***
Wo panno ko bharne ki kosishe to thi
Pr hr kosish kamyaabi k sikhr tk nhi le jaati
Zindagi k kuch kisse adhure hi rh jaate h
Tik wese hi jese ki
Meri adhuri si kuch kahani rhi
Jun 19, 2021
Jun 19, 2021 at 12:30 PM UTC
Hey rabba sukriya jo tune yh zindagi diya
Jine ka mauka brpur esme diya
H rkha mushpe varosha hmesha
Saath na kbhi mera chutne diya
Kabhi kitaabo m saathi bna
kabhi khayalo m raahi bna
Jb v ghum hue khusiya
tune fir unse ru-ba-ru kra diya
Sukriya jo tune mera saath diya
Jine ka ek aash diya
Saath to tera mila
ab to dr v nhi lagta Kuch khone s
tune jo thame haath h
khul K jina ki khusiyaan
ab hmare pass h
Sukriya bhala karu Kin kin baaton ka
etne tere aheshaan h
ki sukriya kehene ko km pr jaaye yh saash h
Tune jannat ki sher krae
Khudh m hi hsne ki aash jagaae
Kbhi thi m v dri sehemi si
pr tere saath ne umeedein bharpur jagaae
Or un umeedoon ne khusiyon ki h barsaat karaae
Hey rabba sukriya kehene ko km jnm yh pr jaaye
For v enn khat K jariye
Kosish meri kaam aaye
Ek baar fir sukriya
jo tune hr pal h mere swath nibhae
Jun 1, 2021
Jun 1, 2021 at 11:33 AM UTC
I believe there is nothing more stagnant than the devil's work
I believe there is nothing prettier than brushing him off
be still, still my soul
do not move even if time tells you to
-c.j.
Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 4:25 AM UTC