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Vamika Sinha Jan 2016
She drank her coffee too
sweet
and drew herself
to the smell of new
pencil shavings,
like a pupil dilates in light,
telling itself to expand,
to drink up
more
and
more.

She fumbled
on old strands of her
self rising like mug steam
from poetry
she wrote only three months ago.
Wide-eyed,
reading "when
one leaves,
the past is a fetish"
in rounded, running letters
bubbling up over each other -
a gravy she found
herself constantly stirring.

And sunsets,
dashed with pink syrup,
are a passion
('passion' being her
'word' - a skin-colored tattoo,
a branded prayer, an incanted torch)
Sunsets.
Sour golden orange laced
with strawberry wine.
Bittersweet.
Passionate.

Her.
We cling to connection like ghosts that don't know they've died
that tired old storyline,
where we don't know who is really alive.
Perhaps it's a matter of perspective
perhaps it's relative
whether it's better to be dead inside
or create art with the emotion,
prose incanted with echoes of devotion we chase
to prove to the world
we're lifted from the mediocrity
as we pass the time
there's never enough of.
tayo Apr 2021
''Is it proper for the dog to stand in the same space as the tiger?,
We shall not hear the end of it.
Two hundred machetes, Two hundred spears are here gathered,
To war against the heavens.
It is the heavens that will over come them all.''

Oloun'yo incanted.
...
@incognitaio
Excerpt ''afilu''
KK Apr 8
A park. A bench.
A sticker, I sent
Now represents...

Raw unchained emotion
You poked it, flowing
Let it out, floating...
Coasting the air in motion
My mind, corroded

Demoted my guards
Laid down, bare arms
Bare qualms... in the charms,
In the stars, hearts art
Bought to life...
In the stagnant
FIRE WORKS. It worked
Stirred my returned verbs
Words usually unheard
Places, undisturbed
Trampled over in
enchanted universal
Incanted tantrums
Where you colluded
I'm imbued with
The views which,
Is an INTRUSION
Plays on the news with
The WHETHER
You're currently disputin-

Air polluted, clouds losin'
CHEMICAL infusion
BIO-LOGICALLY diffusing
Physically abusive
As it infiltrates my lungs
My airways, VENTolin
Is USELESS....

Breathlessness in your effortless
Hexes, these expressions have me
Guessing which way the possible
Confessions, would lead.
I seethe with ideas of a correction
Facility, anger instilled in me
Bottle it up in a distillery
And Guzzle it, so if found guilty
It can run though you silky smooth
And instill me, so you can't move
Past the thought of us two
Then I'll be evenly distributing
These moods where loss debilitates twp


Its confusing,
when you're so
smooth with it
In one night of
Loose lips
Or my mind?
I seem to lose it,
In your company

Art galleries you said
Holding hands...
Growing old,
Vulnerable, unearthed
Dispersed words that
Littered the turf
I protested. But ohhh
The sweet melody
My ears heard...
I BELIEVED YOUR WORDS.

I'm in that place again...
You know, the one where
I spill my ink, instead of print
Distilled drink...
Sinking in to the taste of it...

A sticker, my mind lives with
As a phantom pushes the swing
The wind,  catching my thoughts
Dripping my love on a paper thin
Clause, sign my name on the walls
As this love, pours through my pores
And I pause in the gore, of it being nevermore
A raven call... but your caw, still mauls
While I talk to the water line shore...
Wondering if its evermore

These musings...
A-muse-sings
Ab-use could be
HANDLED by
The fine tipped finger pen
Tongue could be men-dead
By the mere touch of a hand

Do you need a hand
To PEACE it all together
A sticker is but 1 piece
1 piece of this
Conversation tbat ends up deep and something as stupid as a sticker, makes you travel a million miles... mutilated by fear, yet held ransom and captive by your heart. Then when anyone else uses that sticker, it remind you of the utter depth of tbat Conversation... that caused ghosting due to its malignant stasis of the fact your heart is not compliant with your mind

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