"kore" poems
KYON ** gya mujhe ek ajanabi se pyar,
Na jante hua bhi KYON hain ye dil usi ke liye beqarar,
Karke bechain mujhe KYON hain mujhe har waqt usi ka intezar,
Main nahi janta ki kaun hain wo,
jo mujhe apne pyaar ka mujarim bna liya,
Banake DEEWANA mujhe,
mere kore sa dil pe apna naam likh diya,
KYON aata hain mere sapno me uska dhundhlata chehra,
Lagne laga ab har khawab sach mujhe,
Kaha chale gye wo laga ke mere dil pe apne yaadon ka pahera,
Har waqt muskura'h raha hoon jabse mujhe pyar hua hain,
Kho gya hoon main usi ke yaadon me jabse use dil diya hain,
KYON wo mere **** ka jaan ban *** hain,
Karke pareshan mujhe meri jahan ban *** hain,
KYON ye palakein nahi jhapakti jab use dekhti hain ,
Uske bina ye puri duniya suni lagti hain,
KYON mangne lagta hoon use apne rab se,
Dekha hain use aur pyar hua hain jab se.....
Jun 12, 2015
Jun 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM UTC
Shouting for longevity,
Slamming at the counterers…
- upon your dignified respite!
Would-be detractors without brevity,
Before the wine-dark Sea at night…
A pleading to philosophy of commonly renowned,
Beating sand and posturing, uncouth before a crown;
“Priam please!”
Sun and Moon,
two sons shall plead,
nay, -beg in tandem with the man;
“He serves the seas, trust him please, our father; this priest of Trojan-land!”
Laocoon
“Fear the Greeks, of mind I speak, approval by a van-i-ty; it surely is a death you seek!
An asp this horse, gift no more and tragedy in due remorse,
I beg of you my call to heed, wooden-burnt this crispy steed,
…alight in flame, glorified name; Poseidon shall endorse!”
Priests of Apollo
“Ridiculous! Worship we must, now bring it to the City thus!”
Laocoon
“The actions of accursed Kore,
Need I remind you all Paris caused this war?
For he mocked this god, the abyss it knows, with terror comes a deadly tide,
**** that fool and his fiddling pride!*
Burn this beast we must with haste for Greeks they have a certain taste,
Their acts meant always to confound, wily, since they were unbound.
What harm may do, to rest at shore? Consult the stars of yester-yore.
Assign no chore, one heaven’s night, plus a day, to sit upon our princely shore?”
Setting
(read/spoken at the fastest pace the reader can go)
A horrid hiss above the wave as two doth slither from out the cave…
The creatures from the darkest days, ancient spectacle for the knaves, bear witness to the punishment, commanded by a great trident, hearing screams of bannermen, for King and council a shocking twist, serpents ****** from out the mists, encircling priest and his kin, the howling they had done no sin, never be forgot-ten, as Typhon cried out merrily, serpents and the tragic sea; swallowed up all the three.
Priam
“Farewell dear Laocoon and two sons with thee!” *
Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 4:13 PM UTC
September's ploughed earth
sows the rains
it is something like D.H Lawrence's
' The Rainbow',
that you love
the Polish cleaning lady so
my Soul's countryman,
dear poet of the North
for now, Persephone still
walks the earth
fair Kore, soon to descend
to the underworld
back to an aged God in love
were I thus loved by a man
as to become his queen
as to be kidnapped by him
instead, all I have is you,
a woman's love unrequited
for a boy & growing stale
as far off winter calls
like a theatre scene
too much rehearsed
Sep 3, 2015
Sep 3, 2015 at 9:24 PM UTC
*The essence of festivities all around
And the ray of hope
lit in our eyes
Few more days
And it begins.
Festival will come, once again
New attires, new hopes
shining in bright light.
Mother Goddess arrives,
to heal our mind.
9th and 10th day left
With good wishes all around
When Goddess Durga arrives
Returns back our smiles
And heart fills up with happiness.
With the arrival of Goddess Durga
Take back the past
Take back our past love
Take back everything
Which no longer belongs to us
And make us anew.*
Written originally in Bengali-
*Pujo pujo gondho
Amader sobar chokhe aalo
Kichu din aaro
Tarpor pujo aarombho.
Pujo aashbe, abar aasbey
Notun kapor, notun aaloker dhaara
Maa elo abar,
Mon k saariye deoyar jonno.
Nobomi r dashmi baki
Preeti o Shubhechha
Maa-r aagomone
Firbe abar haashi
Mon bhore Khushi
Elo Maa Durga
Aager din er kotha
Aager prem
Sob firiye nao
Amader notun kore dao.*
Sep 28, 2017
Sep 28, 2017 at 2:28 PM UTC
Sight of mine dulled to nothing but red.
My aching fingers bleeding from the splayed out shards of glass.
Time and time again, this feeling will never truly fade.
The destruction that eases into every walk that I take.
The pent up pain that does not soothe
It only comes in waves of doubt and an ache that runs deeply through my body.
I can only sit in silence and wait for it to wash over as the never-ending wrath bounces in the corners of the room.
No freedom found as I keep myself from lashing out.
My blood keeps dripping around my pooling ire.
To lock up such a monster that laps away at every upset and disappointment
There really is no telling when
The day it stops rocking back and forth the dark curtained bedroom I try to subdue it in.
The day my warm blood no longer satisfies the steely blue light that edges its existence.
And the way it bounces off of the crystal shards coated in crimson beneath my hands.
Alcohol has never truly worked for me as much as I wished it did.
What do I do when there is nothing I can do?
How will I cope when I can no longer keep from being violent?
-Kore
Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021 at 2:44 PM UTC
I thought I was everything
and nothing all at once.
This world all spinning
To the direction of my blazing trails.
But I was a fool
I was always a fool to think so.
I let my blood run cold into the depths
of every body of water I could drown in.
And I thought it would be enough
I ran this world clutched under my fingertips
I believed I was above it all
And above every felony I could commit most of all.
But I believed in things
When I couldn't believe in myself
"The ends justify the means."
As I thought myself worthy of giving judgement.
But everything that goes around comes around
For who was I to call upon judgement
No mercy and no worth
All under the guise of a wrathful and unforgiving God.
But I stand here before you now
Before the court, the jury, and the Gods
To sentence me now, a false prophet
For I once believed I was everything and nothing all at once.
I confess all my sins
And admit that I was a fool
I was a fool to think I could change something
That there was a meaning to everything I've done.
So lock me away
From everything I have ever hold dear
For nothing will be enough
To erase all my faults.
But isn't it punishment enough
That I've lost all I had?
Watched good men fall to dust.
And saw empires of what I've built collapse and rot?
I suppose it never ends
After all we carry all our atrocities
Even in death and rebirth
Forgiveness was never an option.
So maybe I'll just raise hell on this ********* earth every chance you allow me to.
-Kore
Aug 29, 2021
Aug 29, 2021 at 4:40 PM UTC
You do not deserve.
You do not deserve, not even the chance to beg for my forgiveness
You will never get that.
And I hope that you lay there, pale as all hell.
Only being able to catch your breath via oxygen tank.
I hope that I am the last thing you think of.
I hope that you close your eyes and drift away only to remember.
That I do not forgive you and I never will.
That what's done is done.
As long as I and my memory exists you will never know that peace.
You're Catholic right?
I hope you wander the barren lands of purgatory unable to be saved because of me.
I do not forgive you.
Not even in death.
Not even in my last breath.
Not even in the perfectly scribbled insanity that is my drunken stupor.
I hope you know how to read between the ******* lines.
I do not forgive you.
-Kore
Oct 26, 2021
Oct 26, 2021 at 12:56 PM UTC
You were happy.
And I was supposed to be happy.
My gold leaf covered hands danced through every key and every scale.
Every symphony that you threw.
I gave you all that I could give.
The golden spotlight and rusting trophies that decorate your shelf.
You always wanted more.
But I'm afraid there was nothing more I could give.
You always wanted me here so why?
What did I do to deserve your shame and hatred.
Maybe you finally realized I was only plated with gold.
But thank you.
For scraping my dreams, my mind, and every hope I had for myself growing up.
Now I know that steel only bends under unimaginable pressure.
And I can walk away from you.
At last in the deep but soothing uncertainty that lays straight ahead of me.
Only having the hope that things will cool down eventually.
-Kore
Apr 13, 2021
Apr 13, 2021 at 7:30 AM UTC
You said that I held my fate in my hands.
That everything happens for a reason.
Well I want you to know that this is what I'm choosing.
Because of you the world only looks worthy of destruction.
And I am going to burn this world down with me.
I choose to die the villain.
No ******* out there can tell me that there is still hope for me.
This is what I chose.
And I plan not to die a hero, no.
I'm going out with revenge served cold.
With drying blood on my hands.
Fallen from heaven, I hit the ground conscience first.
So if fate is really predestined then congratulations.
I am who I am now.
You can't save me.
This was always meant to be from the first moment I graced this world with my unstained eyes.
I welcome you to watch this Godforsaken Earth burn with me and you in it.
Be my guest, let's watch the world end.
-Kore
Jun 15, 2021
Jun 15, 2021 at 10:40 PM UTC
The crow and his burnt feathers,
His fading Iridescent luster
calls out for a life that at one point
He knew.
Lined with dark ash, covered
In rubies and gold.
Yet one look up above
One he could not obtain.
An illuminated lie in his dreaming state.
In stillness he stood
The ink that he bore
The scattered light he once held
soaking in his obsidian hues.
Things he could not take back
Things that he could not have
And all the questions he still had
could only be answered
By the moon.
-Kore
Mar 3, 2021
Mar 3, 2021 at 3:43 PM UTC
That is why the moon turns blindly
Into halves and quarters
And the sun flares out cursing
Into the abyss like a madman.
For sometimes the sun
Can only howl so much
Thus the moon with open arms
Embraces the sun and takes all it's inferno.
Because even the gods have limits.
They too succumb to their own hubris forgetting that they cannot take everything for themselves.
-Kore
Aug 29, 2021
Aug 29, 2021 at 10:46 AM UTC
I asked her, why?
Why she couldn't hold my gaze
Despite the indescribable connection we feel for one another.
And she told me
That we were like two sides of the moon
Always longing, but never meant to even see each other.
And nothing good would come from the fight to understand
The fight to see one another.
The fight to stay alive as two halves of each other.
For we do not complete us
We love so deeply we swallow ourselves whole
Trying so desperately to have more of what we cannot have.
We are two polarities
And we cannot co-exist together
Not like this.
I bid her farewell
Leaving her only in my thoughts and in the sky
That I often see her in.
The moon never seemed so dark as it rushed to four quarters
Of what it used to be.
-Kore
Mar 1, 2021
Mar 1, 2021 at 2:37 PM UTC
[ What are you here for? ]
For things I should have finished long ago.
[ You can run while you still can. ]
I can't, I am exhausted.
[ There is still time. ]
Then I would have to abandon everything I hold dear.
[ But you would be alive. ]
What good am I alive if I cannot be with those I love?
[ So you accept your fate? ]
It was meant to be the moment I stepped back into this world.
[ Your fate is in your hands. ]
And those who have done wrong will always pay the price.
[ And what would your last request be? ]
That a miracle happens.
[ A miracle? ]
I am ready to pay the price for my crimes but for today.
[ . . . ]
Just for today I wish I could be saved.
[ That is up to you. ]
I can only hope that I am strong enough.
[ Only time will tell. ]
Do you think I can make it out?
[ . . . ]
Can I make the heavens reconsider?
[ . . . ]
I figured.
[ Remember. ]
Yes?
[ Your fate is now in your hands. ]
-Kore
Sep 2, 2021
Sep 2, 2021 at 7:45 AM UTC
I am shattered.
Just like anyone else.
But it does not mean that I am far gone.
All I need to do is gather the pieces.
When I find them all eventually.
-Kore
Apr 26, 2021
Apr 26, 2021 at 6:05 PM UTC
She sits on the cold tile floor
Her life flashes before her eyes
4 am regrets.
The lack of sleep is just getting to her.
The shadows loom over the curtains
The pictures of her past start collapsing on the floor
Her head hits the back of the wooden bed panel
Could you wish for anything more unhanded?
The music from the neighbors flat echoes into the night
The barely visible drawings on the wall sneer at her
Its past her bedtime.
Who are you waiting up for anymore?
The ringing in her ears grow louder
The hours pass by slipping through the cracks of the drain.
Who are you crying to anymore?
There is no one to confess to.
The mirror overshadows the bed like church pews at midnight
She tells her that she never loved her.
She disappeared into the clouds that loom over the moon.
Her watch tells her to sleep.
She sighs and climbs back into bed
She remembers that she never loved her.
She remembers the scars that trail along her back.
Her life cannot help but flash before her eyes.
The ceiling morphs and twists
Her eyes flutter shut as her mind plays its tricks
She caresses the scars that itch at the roots of her hair.
Maybe its better this way for everyone.
She can no longer hear the heart beating slowly in the closet
Her mother told her that she is worthless
She begs for the sleep to take her.
Before her mind starts wandering to that point.
The darkness feels cool against her skin
The crooked mattress settling in its place
She sleeps on her side to avoid the bedroom mirror
The world grows still around her as it walks
on ********* eggshells.
The dawn permeates through the broken window sill
She never was a heavy sleeper.
She went missing out of nowhere
The ringing of her phone echoed in her ears
like Sunday bells.
And there was no more trace of the former shadows that pitifully gazed at her in the corners of her room.
-Kore
Mar 5, 2021
Mar 5, 2021 at 4:07 PM UTC
Perhaps I was never meant to be the hero of my story.
Heroes always die.
But I am still here
I can only wonder when it will be over.
Or if I am to be the tragic antagonist
In the story of another.
But one thing I can confirm
Is that heroes are never happy.
And regardless of whether I am
I certainly will meet a tragic end.
That's always how these things go.
I don't think my story was written with a happy ending in mind.
And thus one day
Just when things feel like they're finally
Finally going right for me.
I'm going to collapse again.
Maybe it is time for me to accept that things won't get better
and that they're only going to get worse from here.
-Kore
Apr 28, 2021
Apr 28, 2021 at 3:13 PM UTC
Every moment that we have.
Our own small little world
That we often hide together in.
Yet I cannot help but be afraid.
As you sit beside me making promises.
Promises you cant keep.
You coat my eyes with honey.
The numbing feeling that keeps setting in.
You always know what to do.
But I know that promises
They are not meant to be kept.
Even as you sit next to me.
The dreadful feeling sinks into my depths.
As you hold my hand and swear to me.
All of you and what you'd do for me
It is only a matter of time as you walk away with your loss of warmth and fading dreams.
You cannot keep empty oaths as fragile as porcelain plates.
-Kore
Mar 27, 2021
Mar 27, 2021 at 11:12 AM UTC
I did not really think it through
When the first few strands of my hair came falling to the floor.
But then again I don't really want to think.
That was the point.
As the blunt kitchen scissors sheared what was left of the choppy mess on my head
I am worthless.
That's what you always tell me.
I don't want to think.
You never really did love me.
You always left cuts and bruises on me
Never letting me heal for your own selfish reasons.
You are never at fault.
But you've certainly made your mark.
Now I can only attempt to cut what damage you've done to me out of my life.
My fragile locks scattered around on the cold tile floor.
I can't bear to look.
You don't know what you've done.
You never will as much as I wish you would.
More strands fall from my shaking hands.
I wish I could cut you out.
-Kore
Mar 15, 2021
Mar 15, 2021 at 8:02 AM UTC
The cracks form on the surface
as I stomp my weight in anger.
You push back screaming
for the silence to engulf you.
And I knew I did not deserve you
I always knew.
Your skin now lined
with obsidian fissures.
I try to seal you in gold
but even I know.
The best thing I can give you
all I can do is leave.
-Kore
Mar 8, 2021
Mar 8, 2021 at 12:21 PM UTC
Where do you go
When the comforts that you thought you knew
Start to shatter like a glass of bitter whiskey
Underneath the weight of all the epiphanies
That perhaps you will never truly have
Anywhere to call home.
And you can only wander endlessly
As you walk out
Trying not to look back
As the familiarity tries to pull you in with its stinging warmth.
If one day maybe
They'll have the heart to accept you despite it all.
There you go again leaving everything behind.
But at this point, it's simply second nature to you isn't it?
-Kore
Aug 18, 2021
Aug 18, 2021 at 5:23 AM UTC
That night
I held you in my arms
So fragile and broken
So familiar.
And I could not help it
My heart cried out a song
So familiar
For you my love.
The notes appeared from thin air
Just as easily as it disappeared
The moment the sun scattered
Through my bedroom windows.
-Kore
Mar 4, 2021
Mar 4, 2021 at 5:02 PM UTC
Towards every sound, I can only move.
My eyes tied back masked in the fog.
No light shining through
No one to guide me.
Like a glacier in the vast abyss floating towards nothing.
Only accompanied by the echoes of yesterday.
-Kore
Mar 22, 2021
Mar 22, 2021 at 4:04 AM UTC
"Look closely or you'll miss it!"
You said with that sly grin on your face.
My ring you had in your hands disappeared in a blink of an eye.
So did you but this time you didn't warn me.
-Kore
Mar 31, 2021
Mar 31, 2021 at 3:13 PM UTC
All I can ever ask when you leave me
Was I enough?
Would I ever be enough?
People are always fascinated by me
Attracted to me.
Proclaiming that they will love me for all eternity.
And I can only sadly laugh at such mockery that fate keeps bestowing upon me.
Face it, for all of you who try to love me.
You cannot handle me.
In the end you will always leave me behind.
While I am stuck with the burden of trying to forget.
Your love is not enough.
And you only view me as your saving grace from this ****** world you only suffer in.
But I cannot save you.
To hell with your hero complex.
You most certainly can't save me either.
Love is not enough.
And I am not worth the trouble
-Kore
Apr 5, 2021
Apr 5, 2021 at 1:52 PM UTC
"I gave birth to you so I can take you out of this world."
So do it then, I'll even hand you the knife you need to send me to an early grave.
Since you always know best don't you?
But let's be real you just don't have the guts to do it.
Maybe I should do it myself.
-Kore
Apr 12, 2021
Apr 12, 2021 at 7:36 AM UTC