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"labyrinths" poems
The labyrinths that time creates vanish. (Only the desert remains.) The heart, fountain of desire, vanishes. (Only the desert remains.) The illusion of dawn and kisses vanish. Only the desert remains. A rolling desert.
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And After That
*she said being a feminist i have forsaken the temples of normalcy for dark gratifications and base seduction and discovered that those who know the pleasures of objectification and frenzied ****** lucidity with strangers are wiser then the children of  sweetness and light as marriage betrays the need to satisfy secret dark labyrinths desire and in its place repeats ad nauseum blunt fortitudes in dim sunless rooms for fear of the transgressive satans *** nail is conventions essential creed exhaustions hand maid rendered imagine-less bereft of the new until a mere stand in for true desire is left like a starved ghost on a dead moon a desiccated morsel left for a hungry mouse is romantic marriage a poetic conception by love starved victorian imbeciles vanquished in increments by petty spats of blood and thunder who know not the joys of the whips blood toothed kisses purgation's brutal sensuality and a creel of ramming butter **** gang bangs in secret fetish gardens of cries and coos that leave the *** wilted and the soul lite like a butterfly in heaven slave girl asks as hips sway to sacred dionysian storms in the smoldering pangs of the heart as backs writhe and arch flex and sweat rhapsodic and viscera panic with desire are not such delicious degradations pleasures ravage despicable cause for an ecstatic celebration kindling fiery vapors incense en-flamed dragons blood for drooling kisses that talk in tongues in a language that everyone understands infinitly preferred over  the rolling eyes of disapproval in the tepid marriage bed*
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Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 5:48 PM UTC
Slave Girl Rhapsody
*she said being a feminist i have forsaken the temples of normalcy for dark gratifications and base seduction and discovered that those who know the pleasures of objectification and frenzied ****** lucidity with strangers are wiser then the children of  sweetness and light as marriage betrays the need to satisfy secret dark labyrinths desire and in its place repeats ad nauseum blunt fortitudes in dim sunless rooms for fear of the transgressive satans *** nail is conventions essential creed exhaustions hand maid rendered imagine-less bereft of the new until a mere stand in for true desire is left like a starved ghost on a dead moon a desiccated morsel left for a hungry mouse is romantic marriage a poetic conception by love starved victorian imbeciles vanquished in increments by petty spats of blood and thunder who know not the joys of the whips blood toothed kisses purgation's brutal sensuality and a creel of ramming butter **** gang bangs in secret fetish gardens of cries and coos that leave the *** wilted and the soul lite like a butterfly in heaven slave girl asks as hips sway to sacred dionysian storms in the smoldering pangs of the heart as backs writhe and arch flex and sweat rhapsodic and viscera panic with desire are not such delicious degradations pleasures ravage despicable cause for an ecstatic celebration kindling fiery vapors incense en-flamed dragons blood for drooling kisses that talk in tongues in a language that everyone understands infinitly preferred over  the rolling eyes of disapproval in the tepid marriage bed*
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Seniors sluggishly step Trifling tunnels suddenly turn tame But boredom befalls from bountiful blessings The lengthy labyrinths lead to a lair of light However, hazardous hiking harms healthy equipment Determination among tunnel dwellers dwindles down drastically Can crawling to the coronation corridor ease the contagious condition?
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 3:00 PM UTC
Senioritis Showdown
a future promise a hard on like bundled gym socks in stuffed blue jeans a future threat a shriveled phallus wrinkled obsolete she remembered fondly being beaten drum chatter and seized like slow roasted fall off the bone pulled pork ****** raggedy Ann catapulted beyond Euboean heavens ravaging scrotums Gordian ****** with her wild fiendish mouth drinking a river of haloed golden showers spit and **** in a runaway hot house of glistening pink buttery spires engorging her macerated orifices half eaten radish chocking on hordes of big do do ***** a ****** face; cross eyed Babylon abalone bashed Ashly mashed begging for a face full of swinging ***** like caped chandeliers trotting faint giggles in a constellation of ruptured arteries and thick sparked **** on her knees milk glitter faced scared with happiness she counted one smiling bruise at a time her badge of calamities black and blue silhouettes grinning invitations like party favors without a crease of shame her skin rapturous spackled patchworks bled like torrential fountains summer tide while every body had  fizzy red ice phlebotomies and steamed through her drooling tumble pie lust ***** totem house of winding labyrinths honey pumped transfusion flush on blush opera of tangled limbs red pulse wedding flowers slick ***** palace blood tongued orchard caressing knotted mooned **** spill
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Jan 14, 2019
Jan 14, 2019 at 2:22 PM UTC
**** Spill
In a moment of silence and solitude, I stand dumfounded in my inner being, Unable to understand this life's turmoil. What to say, what to do? And above all how to move? Lost in the labyrinths of my mind. Oh merciful Lord take pity on us, Bestow grace, in our hour of entanglements.
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 10:27 AM UTC
An Hour Of Perplexity
If only I could stay In labyrinths green Ever wandering In hallways of sunlight Nothing more than A lingering thought Left floating through Wooden minds and Mossy corridors KNL
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Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021 at 3:11 AM UTC
Labyrinths
Sitting in labyrinths of cobblestone intestines I’m learning to eat the entrails of sacrifice only domestic, never hunted. pick up spoon. put down put down. put-down. pick up. um . spoon. um… putdown. there are motions for eating and I do them. soothsayer, look down pay attention to positions, shapes knife. butter. um… bread. no. breadth. better. no. butter-better. focus. knife. better. bread. knife, knife of haruspex. knife breadth. okay… deep breath. I have divided the livers and the watchers of victims. I have written on the anomalies in my bronze living, what I should look for, what they should allow for. my protruding viscera, my ancient autopsy of starving. Starving made me easier to tie. easier to lift. made me feel gutted out like finished ice-cream containers but, starving made me full of household gods. made me divine. made sheeps fly. made days disappear and made cold cold cold seem like simmering. made staying out of sight a piece of cake. cake. starving made me rich when I found little boys betting quarters for eating bowels of goats. made me small enough to fit through playground gates so I could swing swing in earthquakes, and portents. now, I listen to Memor, a man who knows nothing of starving talk about how starving I am. tomorrow I have to advise tomorrow I have to weigh tomorrow I have to swallow tomorrow I have to tomorrow I have tomorrow I am half and starving made me whole.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM UTC
Starving
I found out that I couldn't find myself in this labyrinth of lies that I had made. I was lost inside my own maze.
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Nov 1, 2015
Nov 1, 2015 at 8:07 PM UTC
Inescapable Labyrinths
I envied the cadavers haunting my nightmares, watching those before me spread upon a metal slab bodies are hand-me-downs of regurgitated poetry, with wretched closets in which I take their place. This ventilator called "loved ones" forcing breath into anguished lungs- tragedies belonging to these poets meant something, a desire to save the words written, but never the one who becomes a eulogy. Agony burrows inside of me, conversations with my mother's ghost still, the living are possessed by the dead's shortened tomorrows. To die by suicide wouldn't give, authenticity to hurt. I am learning the autopsy of a soul: extracting a heart from the chest, as it's sense of belonging was never there. An inability to weigh the words bleeding from valves, aside lungs I'm unable to breathe through. How ungrateful is it of sorrow to ask for hope? placed in a pill divider to swallow, muscles within my throat so tight. Wondering, How many times did I diminish my voice? Inside the brain, schematics of labyrinths with no end to betterment. Surgeons reach for a soul, an iridescence small enough held in a gloved palm, watching it writhe. Placed upon a slide, but even a microscope cannot perceive the pain a soul hides. Once more, stitched with needle and thread. Wilting of my own garden, comes one day- an incision is made opening me up. My heart showed the same blood-red ink, writing apologies on the marble floor. They opened my arm, displaying a noose of veins. In this moment, they removed my soul only to gift it to another birthed from torment ripped out of the arm's of their mother & into the embrace of woe. —V.H.
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Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 at 12:01 AM UTC
Old Souls (Cut From The Same Cloth)
I envied the cadavers haunting my nightmares, watching those before me spread upon a metal slab bodies are hand-me-downs of regurgitated poetry, with wretched closets in which I take their place. This ventilator called "loved ones" forcing breath into anguished lungs- tragedies belonging to these poets meant something, a desire to save the words written, but never the one who becomes a eulogy. Agony burrows inside of me, conversations with my mother's ghost still, the living are possessed by the dead's shortened tomorrows. To die by suicide wouldn't give, authenticity to hurt. I am learning the autopsy of a soul: extracting a heart from the chest, as it's sense of belonging was never there. An inability to weigh the words bleeding from valves, aside lungs I'm unable to breathe through. How ungrateful is it of sorrow to ask for hope? placed in a pill divider to swallow, muscles within my throat so tight. Wondering, How many times did I diminish my voice? Inside the brain, schematics of labyrinths with no end to betterment. Surgeons reach for a soul, an iridescence small enough held in a gloved palm, watching it writhe. Placed upon a slide, but even a microscope cannot perceive the pain a soul hides. Once more, stitched with needle and thread. Wilting of my own garden, comes one day- an incision is made opening me up. My heart showed the same blood-red ink, writing apologies on the marble floor. They opened my arm, displaying a noose of veins. In this moment, they removed my soul only to gift it to another birthed from torment ripped out of the arm's of their mother & into the embrace of woe. —V.H.
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Have we yet captured the schemes of our misfortune A solace granted to us, picketed by our tedious hangups Oh lost have we been Wondering the labyrinths halls Each time we find our steps take us no further Our stagger is broken By a light projecting life outside the hallways walls While envy flaunts it's final solutions In loo of a future we are attempting to grasp Our steps move us further once again Now, just as forgotten times before Do I see that the peaces of our scheme Are collected gradually over time and my mind is the cage for their housing The fragments are fluid and known To our past selves on a distant day But now I live life again from a stance of their recall While at the same time tempted To step back to the labyrinths halls
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 11:18 PM UTC
"The Labyrinth's Halls"
I speak the language of the ambiguous man Two false tunnels leading to the paradise once existent Suffocating in the soul the heart pumps mysterious labyrinths Intricate twists, lively turns, dead ends, corrupt memories All leading to the same two doors Handles made from cherry blossom to conceal ****** wrists Misleading as barren rock behind the sodden waterfall And deceitful as the smiles of killers pending demise I like to fool the world with my duplicitous decisons Peeping through one door just to go through the other There lay two paths divided in a somber world The ambiguity of man prevails Only when a single door leads to the innocent simplicity But the truth about lies prevail When the man not knows what he does And navigates through his own mindful solitude I intrude in a broken world filled with people most pernicious Some call them deceivers while some call them philosophers Depends on how they see the truth of ambiguity Two parallel bridges to cross a sea most demoniac While only one bridge armed with the truthful support But the world feels much too simple without rails to grasp As there is nothing to hinder the peaceful descent Smoothly into that paradise once existent I'd fairly not speak about the truthful man But rather the lying hero For he has more knowledge with the concept of ambiguity But whom does the stray bullet in the revolver take? The truthful man or the lying hero? If the truthful man chooses not the rails out of pride And the lying hero slashes his wrists out of regret At first I settle with those who favor the liar But if I had two bullets I would see that the pride would also suffice As the ambiguous man shall die twice For ambiguity is anything but simplicity
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Jan 29, 2014
Jan 29, 2014 at 1:15 AM UTC
Ambiguity
I speak the language of the ambiguous man Two false tunnels leading to the paradise once existent Suffocating in the soul the heart pumps mysterious labyrinths Intricate twists, lively turns, dead ends, corrupt memories All leading to the same two doors Handles made from cherry blossom to conceal ****** wrists Misleading as barren rock behind the sodden waterfall And deceitful as the smiles of killers pending demise I like to fool the world with my duplicitous decisons Peeping through one door just to go through the other There lay two paths divided in a somber world The ambiguity of man prevails Only when a single door leads to the innocent simplicity But the truth about lies prevail When the man not knows what he does And navigates through his own mindful solitude I intrude in a broken world filled with people most pernicious Some call them deceivers while some call them philosophers Depends on how they see the truth of ambiguity Two parallel bridges to cross a sea most demoniac While only one bridge armed with the truthful support But the world feels much too simple without rails to grasp As there is nothing to hinder the peaceful descent Smoothly into that paradise once existent I'd fairly not speak about the truthful man But rather the lying hero For he has more knowledge with the concept of ambiguity But whom does the stray bullet in the revolver take? The truthful man or the lying hero? If the truthful man chooses not the rails out of pride And the lying hero slashes his wrists out of regret At first I settle with those who favor the liar But if I had two bullets I would see that the pride would also suffice As the ambiguous man shall die twice For ambiguity is anything but simplicity
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Then was my neophyte, Child in white blood bent on its knees Under the bell of rocks, Ducked in the twelve, disciple seas The winder of the water-clocks Calls a green day and night. My sea hermaphrodite, Snail of man in His ship of fires That burn the bitten decks, Knew all His horrible desires The climber of the water *** Calls the green rock of light. Who in these labyrinths, This tidethread and the lane of scales, Twine in a moon-blown shell, Escapes to the flat cities' sails Furled on the fishes' house and hell, Nor falls to His green myths? Stretch the salt photographs, The landscape grief, love in His oils Mirror from man to whale That the green child see like a grail Through veil and fin and fire and coil Time on the canvas paths. He films my vanity. Shot in the wind, by tilted arcs, Over the water come Children from homes and children's parks Who speak on a finger and thumb, And the masked, headless boy. His reels and mystery The winder of the clockwise scene Wound like a ball of lakes Then threw on that tide-hoisted screen Love's image till my heartbone breaks By a dramatic sea. Who kills my history? The year-hedged row is lame with flint, Blunt scythe and water blade. 'Who could snap off the shapeless print From your to-morrow-treading shade With oracle for eye?' Time kills me terribly. 'Time shall not ****** you,' He said, 'Nor the green nought be hurt; Who could hack out your unsucked heart, O green and unborn and undead?' I saw time ****** me.
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Then Was My Neophyte
Then was my neophyte, Child in white blood bent on its knees Under the bell of rocks, Ducked in the twelve, disciple seas The winder of the water-clocks Calls a green day and night. My sea hermaphrodite, Snail of man in His ship of fires That burn the bitten decks, Knew all His horrible desires The climber of the water *** Calls the green rock of light. Who in these labyrinths, This tidethread and the lane of scales, Twine in a moon-blown shell, Escapes to the flat cities' sails Furled on the fishes' house and hell, Nor falls to His green myths? Stretch the salt photographs, The landscape grief, love in His oils Mirror from man to whale That the green child see like a grail Through veil and fin and fire and coil Time on the canvas paths. He films my vanity. Shot in the wind, by tilted arcs, Over the water come Children from homes and children's parks Who speak on a finger and thumb, And the masked, headless boy. His reels and mystery The winder of the clockwise scene Wound like a ball of lakes Then threw on that tide-hoisted screen Love's image till my heartbone breaks By a dramatic sea. Who kills my history? The year-hedged row is lame with flint, Blunt scythe and water blade. 'Who could snap off the shapeless print From your to-morrow-treading shade With oracle for eye?' Time kills me terribly. 'Time shall not ****** you,' He said, 'Nor the green nought be hurt; Who could hack out your unsucked heart, O green and unborn and undead?' I saw time ****** me.
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by Sara L. Russell, 30/10/13 at 01:03am I am a force of fiery integrity of soul; a garden sealed;   I carry my soul deep within, all of Heaven enfolds me; My cross is my talisman, my banner and protector,   All of Dante's angels ascending and descending surround me. My bed is a vessel of peace on a sea of tranquil clouds;   Oceans of rolling vapour bear me up in the azure sky, Distant birds give voice in the soporific hush of twilight,   as angels sing out blessings of love and everlasting accord. I am a harp of harmony, a lyre of languid repose;   My heartbeat as steadfast as any jewelled timepiece of gold, My dreaming skies are filled with wingbeats of migrating birds,   Streams shimmer with moonlight; all the forests thrum with life. I am a force of fiery integrity of soul, protected from the night;   I carry my soul deep behind the portals of my mind, My Lord and Creator guides me through the labyrinths of dreams,   Shadows flee from angels, wingbeats carry me till dawn.
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Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 9:09 PM UTC
To Ward off Nightmares
Tell me night, ****** beast, in the forest, how long have you been lying in wait, catching my scent like a hound, don't hide the truth, it's the moment that completes. I know well, how desperately you want to take me in to your warm bear hug, as I pass through the labyrinths subjected to the onslaught of light in it's varied intensities and hues. An expectant silence following , you are patient count my every heart beat and draws me near. Floating and diving in the  blue sea waves I covet a flourascent green sheet of water to play with, take me to the coral wonderlands. In an oblivious mood  I stand under the rain cloud receiving the soft caresses of   blue rain  in my brain it touches my heart, gently rocking, anesthetizing my mind and making me safe from the raging wild fire. Here I sit on the  rock jutting in to the sea below immersed in the vermilion-gold splash on the horizon a  wild ecstatic sunset, never once looking like one before, a wintry wind blows telling me all the hidden truths Now I would come to your moon anointed  bed for our long awaited tryst; an ultimate  ****** encounter.
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Jul 10, 2016
Jul 10, 2016 at 12:05 PM UTC
****** night
**Baggage within       trappings of illusions, love packed away   in neat little compartments gathering cobwebs at      makeshift improvisations, dusting intermittently       if by chance a light            should shine, never wholly untangling     the snare mid a labyrinth of       transparent entrapment,   as violin strings continue       to unlatch the same old key**
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Aug 4, 2015
Aug 4, 2015 at 8:22 AM UTC
Labyrinths of Baggage
Hope, whose weak Being ruin’d is, Alike if it succeed, and if it miss; Whom Good or Ill does equally confound, And both the Horns of Fates Dilemma wound. Vain shadow! which dost vanish quite, Both at full Noon, and perfect Night! The Stars have not a possibility Of blessing Thee; If things then from their End we happy call, ’Tis Hope is the most Hopeless thing of all. Hope, thou bold Taster of Delight, Who whilst thou shouldst but tast, devour’st it quite! Thou bringst us an Estate, yet leav’st us Poor, By clogging it with Legacies before! The Joys which we entire should wed, Come deflowr’d Virgins to our bed; Good fortunes without gain imported be, Such mighty Custom’s paid to Thee. For Joy, like Wine, kept close does better tast; If it take air before, its spirits wast. Hope, Fortunes cheating Lottery! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be; Fond Archer, Hope, who tak’st thy aim so far, That still or short, or wide thine arrows are! Thin, empty Cloud, which th’eye deceives With shapes that our own Fancy gives! A Cloud, which gilt and painted now appears, But must drop presently in tears! When thy false beams o’re Reasons light prevail, By Ignes fatui for North-Stars we sail. Brother of Fear, more gaily clad! The merr’ier Fool o’th’ two, yet quite as Mad: Sire of Repentance, Child of fond Desire! That blow’st the Chymicks, and the Lovers fire! Leading them still insensibly’on By the strange witchcraft of Anon! By Thee the one does changing Nature through Her endless Labyrinths pursue, And th’ other chases Woman, whilst She goes More ways and turns than hunted Nature knows.
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Against Hope
Hope, whose weak Being ruin’d is, Alike if it succeed, and if it miss; Whom Good or Ill does equally confound, And both the Horns of Fates Dilemma wound. Vain shadow! which dost vanish quite, Both at full Noon, and perfect Night! The Stars have not a possibility Of blessing Thee; If things then from their End we happy call, ’Tis Hope is the most Hopeless thing of all. Hope, thou bold Taster of Delight, Who whilst thou shouldst but tast, devour’st it quite! Thou bringst us an Estate, yet leav’st us Poor, By clogging it with Legacies before! The Joys which we entire should wed, Come deflowr’d Virgins to our bed; Good fortunes without gain imported be, Such mighty Custom’s paid to Thee. For Joy, like Wine, kept close does better tast; If it take air before, its spirits wast. Hope, Fortunes cheating Lottery! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be; Fond Archer, Hope, who tak’st thy aim so far, That still or short, or wide thine arrows are! Thin, empty Cloud, which th’eye deceives With shapes that our own Fancy gives! A Cloud, which gilt and painted now appears, But must drop presently in tears! When thy false beams o’re Reasons light prevail, By Ignes fatui for North-Stars we sail. Brother of Fear, more gaily clad! The merr’ier Fool o’th’ two, yet quite as Mad: Sire of Repentance, Child of fond Desire! That blow’st the Chymicks, and the Lovers fire! Leading them still insensibly’on By the strange witchcraft of Anon! By Thee the one does changing Nature through Her endless Labyrinths pursue, And th’ other chases Woman, whilst She goes More ways and turns than hunted Nature knows.
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This is the machine. Tucked under necklaces, poppies and daffodils calligraphic fingertip Xs hurry across pockets. Thursday morning job postings markers on construction paper windows exhausted by making parts. Keep weddings in thunderstorms to hide the sound of windmills in chests, bittersweet directions to ticking clockwork. Carbonated water can’t convince summer to stay, musical breaths and tulip footsteps remind me of the gears in my knees. Always buy wallets used daylily bank notes folded into stairwells, the heels of my socks. Blue collars in ochre wheelbarrows soaking next to the white ones. We are quiet machines. With cogs in our wrists battery powered bone and sinew. Baby’s breath white in our hair, tiny bunches piled into collar bones or concave stomachs. You have stars in your hair whispering in manufactured voices to pull out your eyelashes. Consumed by the concept of concepts on ravine park benches, marred with newspaper labyrinths smelling of rolled up sleeves. Hand held gummy bears prompt me to check my fluid levels, bubbly orchids in my left palm. Sugar intakes and patterned pants hide homemade pulses. This is the machine.
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Jun 1, 2013
Jun 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM UTC
This is the machine
“Sir, this mole seems to be growing and spreading” Suhail stopped the scissor and comb, and said “It’s a bit grown than last month and even then, I noticed it spreading” Suhail is my hair stylist for the last about six years I have seen him growing from a Hair Analyst to Specialist to Senior Hair Specialist There is something more than the generous tip that connects us May be my willingness to abide by his experiments with my hair Or reciprocation of loyalty that bound us every month Surprised, I asked him, “What mole are you talking about?” “Don’t you know the black mole on the back side of your left ear” puzzled Suhail “You go and check with Madam, may be its my feeling only” “How would madam know about it Suhail, she doesn’t cut my hair!” “Arre Sir, you too!” Suhail had a vicious smile on his face “Come on tell me” I prodded him with the same viciousness We got into wayward pastime … “Arre, Sir, they get to see it… When you lay down on her lap in those afternoons And she combs your hair with her fingers And when you fall into that muddle of sleepiness and excitement Her eyes would lock it” “Arre, Sir, they get to see it… When she comes from the back as on paws of a cat Hugs and hold you tight with her hands And press her face on your shoulder Her eyes would lock it” “Arre, Sir, they get to see it… When those drenched lips move away from your lips And the craving teeth leave a hickey on that earlobe, Her eyes would lock it” Suhail finished the haircut and I left tipping him as usual The drive back home searched through the labyrinths of memories Of caressing fingers, tight hugs and hickeys Why didn’t she mention that mole, ever? “Honey, you never told about that Mole, Come on, let me see and let’s go to a Dermatologist quickly We can’t take these things lightly; the doctor may even suggest a biopsy Biopsy is fully covered in your mediclaim, isn’t it?”
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Sep 1, 2017
Sep 1, 2017 at 11:31 AM UTC
That Black Mole on the back of my Earlobe
“Sir, this mole seems to be growing and spreading” Suhail stopped the scissor and comb, and said “It’s a bit grown than last month and even then, I noticed it spreading” Suhail is my hair stylist for the last about six years I have seen him growing from a Hair Analyst to Specialist to Senior Hair Specialist There is something more than the generous tip that connects us May be my willingness to abide by his experiments with my hair Or reciprocation of loyalty that bound us every month Surprised, I asked him, “What mole are you talking about?” “Don’t you know the black mole on the back side of your left ear” puzzled Suhail “You go and check with Madam, may be its my feeling only” “How would madam know about it Suhail, she doesn’t cut my hair!” “Arre Sir, you too!” Suhail had a vicious smile on his face “Come on tell me” I prodded him with the same viciousness We got into wayward pastime … “Arre, Sir, they get to see it… When you lay down on her lap in those afternoons And she combs your hair with her fingers And when you fall into that muddle of sleepiness and excitement Her eyes would lock it” “Arre, Sir, they get to see it… When she comes from the back as on paws of a cat Hugs and hold you tight with her hands And press her face on your shoulder Her eyes would lock it” “Arre, Sir, they get to see it… When those drenched lips move away from your lips And the craving teeth leave a hickey on that earlobe, Her eyes would lock it” Suhail finished the haircut and I left tipping him as usual The drive back home searched through the labyrinths of memories Of caressing fingers, tight hugs and hickeys Why didn’t she mention that mole, ever? “Honey, you never told about that Mole, Come on, let me see and let’s go to a Dermatologist quickly We can’t take these things lightly; the doctor may even suggest a biopsy Biopsy is fully covered in your mediclaim, isn’t it?”
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You smile black-eyed as the city belches blue neon through its steel-glass canyons; a cobalt factory of lumen, pulsing through dendritic labyrinths of sapphired circuitry. Diodes of cerulean fire, spreading with virulent sophistry amid the glittering obsidian dark, like pale horses of light that leap from pane to inky pane, like a Pentium’s ****** God’s own seething fireworks watched in reverse as they float in through my car window, strobing blue against your freshly washed hair.
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Jul 13, 2012
Jul 13, 2012 at 8:51 AM UTC
Cerulean Fire
In the long nothings of blackest night Owl whispers. Hair of mouse stands, As only an under sieged without spear Can and grave vole, simply wide open On his mat of dead leaves, drying time And even the hare, without hope, hops Maddeningly caught in dark labyrinths Without sight, dear is the silent scream Of all that was mere, so slim after light, Night scurry, dash, curled fingers, prey.
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 6:33 PM UTC
Owl Whispers
The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one, sold all that he had and bought it.—Matthew 13.45 I know the ways of Learning; both the head And pipes that feed the press, and make it run; What reason hath from nature borrowed, Or of itself, like a good huswife, spun In laws and policy; what the stars conspire, What willing nature speaks, what forced by fire; Both th’ old discoveries, and the new-found seas, The stock and surplus, cause and history: All these stand open, or I have the keys: Yet I love thee. I know the ways of Honour, what maintains The quick returns of courtesy and wit: In vies of favours whether party gains, When glory swells the heart, and moldeth it To all expressions both of hand and eye, Which on the world a true-love-knot may tie, And bear the bundle, wheresoe’er it goes: How many drams of spirit there must be To sell my life unto my friends or foes: Yet I love thee. I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it; The propositions of hot blood and brains; What mirth and music mean; what love and wit Have done these twenty hundred years, and more: I know the projects of unbridled store: My stuff is flesh, not brass; my senses live, And grumble oft, that they have more in me Than he that curbs them, being but one to five: Yet I love thee. I know all these, and have them in my hand: Therefore not sealed, but with open eyes I fly to thee, and fully understand Both the main sale, and the commodities; And at what rate and price I have thy love; With all the circumstances that may move: Yet through these labyrinths, not my grovelling wit, But thy silk twist let down from heav’n to me, Did both conduct and teach me, how by it To climb to thee.
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The Pearl
The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one, sold all that he had and bought it.—Matthew 13.45 I know the ways of Learning; both the head And pipes that feed the press, and make it run; What reason hath from nature borrowed, Or of itself, like a good huswife, spun In laws and policy; what the stars conspire, What willing nature speaks, what forced by fire; Both th’ old discoveries, and the new-found seas, The stock and surplus, cause and history: All these stand open, or I have the keys: Yet I love thee. I know the ways of Honour, what maintains The quick returns of courtesy and wit: In vies of favours whether party gains, When glory swells the heart, and moldeth it To all expressions both of hand and eye, Which on the world a true-love-knot may tie, And bear the bundle, wheresoe’er it goes: How many drams of spirit there must be To sell my life unto my friends or foes: Yet I love thee. I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it; The propositions of hot blood and brains; What mirth and music mean; what love and wit Have done these twenty hundred years, and more: I know the projects of unbridled store: My stuff is flesh, not brass; my senses live, And grumble oft, that they have more in me Than he that curbs them, being but one to five: Yet I love thee. I know all these, and have them in my hand: Therefore not sealed, but with open eyes I fly to thee, and fully understand Both the main sale, and the commodities; And at what rate and price I have thy love; With all the circumstances that may move: Yet through these labyrinths, not my grovelling wit, But thy silk twist let down from heav’n to me, Did both conduct and teach me, how by it To climb to thee.
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The setting sun profusely showering  golden yellow over scattered Mughal ruins, dragged history of dead centuries in to their conversations. In Delhi history rocks one back and fourth as if  in a swing, when one sees own predicaments from different angles, realize, the role of a rolling stone in the incessant flow of time. In India past centuries, co-exist forming  a deep water pool, on the banks of which, the cities are made. this  pool makes its presence felt amazingly in contemporary life, you can see your face, and life itself reflected on its waters, --as if  walking on the shore of distant times; an exhilarating feeling, eerie too at times. History was a live  presence, all along with them, future loomed with  grievous air of uncertainty he and she, two lines drawn parallel (not by them but others, who know better!) over the busy today of Delhi gloriously old, yet decidedly new and an uncertainty vastly between. one easily gets lost in the labyrinths unless fully  imbued all this contradictory complexities. she said, in dreams she was a princess who fell in love with a poet penniless but sung his songs only to her heart, she never did want anything else she was blissfully unaware of the complexities of labyrinths, the king got furious, she said like some  parents of present times who don't hesitate a bit, to **** in cold blood their children who cross the lines killings in the  name of honor is on the increase every day you are informed. in the story of her nightmares it all ended in tragedy: the king without mercy hung the lovers, who preferred death than getting separated He walked back alone, making way through the ruins of past strewn with an agitating heart, here, the time is a still pool that refuses to flow, he thought between the sunset of past glory and an uncertain dawn he and she stand separated by a dark frightening night.
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Nov 14, 2011
Nov 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM UTC
In Delhi, amidst the past glory and ruins
The setting sun profusely showering  golden yellow over scattered Mughal ruins, dragged history of dead centuries in to their conversations. In Delhi history rocks one back and fourth as if  in a swing, when one sees own predicaments from different angles, realize, the role of a rolling stone in the incessant flow of time. In India past centuries, co-exist forming  a deep water pool, on the banks of which, the cities are made. this  pool makes its presence felt amazingly in contemporary life, you can see your face, and life itself reflected on its waters, --as if  walking on the shore of distant times; an exhilarating feeling, eerie too at times. History was a live  presence, all along with them, future loomed with  grievous air of uncertainty he and she, two lines drawn parallel (not by them but others, who know better!) over the busy today of Delhi gloriously old, yet decidedly new and an uncertainty vastly between. one easily gets lost in the labyrinths unless fully  imbued all this contradictory complexities. she said, in dreams she was a princess who fell in love with a poet penniless but sung his songs only to her heart, she never did want anything else she was blissfully unaware of the complexities of labyrinths, the king got furious, she said like some  parents of present times who don't hesitate a bit, to **** in cold blood their children who cross the lines killings in the  name of honor is on the increase every day you are informed. in the story of her nightmares it all ended in tragedy: the king without mercy hung the lovers, who preferred death than getting separated He walked back alone, making way through the ruins of past strewn with an agitating heart, here, the time is a still pool that refuses to flow, he thought between the sunset of past glory and an uncertain dawn he and she stand separated by a dark frightening night.
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Is life a story, is life magick dreaming to love? I gazed up. “Standing below the elephantine magnolia, the ground still bore Tuscany ochre from autumns last kiss.” My eyes solivagant orbs fed on spring’s dews in mourning ──jewellery clinging opulently to her naked form. Dawn chilled the breeze caressing her body as abscission demanded she undressed her emerald gown of leaves. Magenta and cream blooms sprang “loudly” seducing ─ blushing mauve crowned centres, a population of endless figurines perched motionless on aching naked branches. Solomon’s seal burned white within me drunk impending suns arrows, opulent words of silver Verbus diablio kissed in a cauldron of Magnolia words, a banquet for mortals that seek loves gold. A lone spider echoed silence bearing the sigil of Jupiter’s vermillion and white spun striations luffing on the breeze warming. “Magnolia dressed the day ardent in perfumed ── glorious plumes that each set sail across waking skies.” Ablaze I am luscious dreams wrapped in sweet nectar, travelling limbic memories breathing deeply, held captive, wanton within her labyrinths of silk caresses, petals whispering, sweet love as she engulfs my last resolve. In raptures white velvet gown my hem sweeps over gold russet and brittle autumns words forged in winters need for warmth──mind leaves crunching beneath life’s changing seasons, stitched I cling enamoured to mortal honeymoon summered fields. I am the female of sapphire tears twisting, glittering melting ice shards, bequeathed of pained black stars travelled on passionate magick fires, breathed on melodious Roma nights. Rested among the branches a mantel crucified- drunk once more, a bloom held silent in time weeping, exploding fragrant in a coloured soul, a luffing flower creature to life──crowned ──to sun hope thorns. ©ASPAR (A Sol Poet Arnay Rumens)
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Dec 9, 2018
Dec 9, 2018 at 6:17 AM UTC
Magnolia Ice
Is life a story, is life magick dreaming to love? I gazed up. “Standing below the elephantine magnolia, the ground still bore Tuscany ochre from autumns last kiss.” My eyes solivagant orbs fed on spring’s dews in mourning ──jewellery clinging opulently to her naked form. Dawn chilled the breeze caressing her body as abscission demanded she undressed her emerald gown of leaves. Magenta and cream blooms sprang “loudly” seducing ─ blushing mauve crowned centres, a population of endless figurines perched motionless on aching naked branches. Solomon’s seal burned white within me drunk impending suns arrows, opulent words of silver Verbus diablio kissed in a cauldron of Magnolia words, a banquet for mortals that seek loves gold. A lone spider echoed silence bearing the sigil of Jupiter’s vermillion and white spun striations luffing on the breeze warming. “Magnolia dressed the day ardent in perfumed ── glorious plumes that each set sail across waking skies.” Ablaze I am luscious dreams wrapped in sweet nectar, travelling limbic memories breathing deeply, held captive, wanton within her labyrinths of silk caresses, petals whispering, sweet love as she engulfs my last resolve. In raptures white velvet gown my hem sweeps over gold russet and brittle autumns words forged in winters need for warmth──mind leaves crunching beneath life’s changing seasons, stitched I cling enamoured to mortal honeymoon summered fields. I am the female of sapphire tears twisting, glittering melting ice shards, bequeathed of pained black stars travelled on passionate magick fires, breathed on melodious Roma nights. Rested among the branches a mantel crucified- drunk once more, a bloom held silent in time weeping, exploding fragrant in a coloured soul, a luffing flower creature to life──crowned ──to sun hope thorns. ©ASPAR (A Sol Poet Arnay Rumens)
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A rainy day, an acoustic guitar, a notebook, a studio apartment overlooking the city. "I want to measure my mornings in spoonfuls of coffee and my nights in empty cigarette boxes." I don't remember the name of the poet who wrote that but it couldn't describe my life any more accurately. I want to measure my mornings in spoonfuls of coffee and my nights in empty cigarette boxes. I want to measure my happiness in rainy days and soft kisses, poetry, I want to measure my recovery in full meals and trash bags full of razors, in tears shed by my eyes instead of my skin. I want to measure my free time in independent movies and 4 different kinds of music- indie, hard rock, classic rock, and pop-punk. I want to measure my infinities in starry night skies, galaxies, constellations, physics books I got in middle school and his eyes, his smile. I want to measure my victories in minutes without smoking and my losses in blaring headphones and labyrinths of white smoke. I want to measure my work ethic in sick days and missed bills. I want to measure my heart in belly dancing and ***** converse, in beanies and minutes spend holding him. I want to measure my life in written chapters and highlighted smiles in blue Christmas lights and TV show references, in my favourite movies and novels and songs and my dependence on myself, in cans of Peace Tea and Pringles and not regretting eating, in pens that help the words flow and laughs, smiles, hugs, kisses, and hope that in the future things will be alright... More alright than they are now.
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 3:10 PM UTC
Medicine
A rainy day, an acoustic guitar, a notebook, a studio apartment overlooking the city. "I want to measure my mornings in spoonfuls of coffee and my nights in empty cigarette boxes." I don't remember the name of the poet who wrote that but it couldn't describe my life any more accurately. I want to measure my mornings in spoonfuls of coffee and my nights in empty cigarette boxes. I want to measure my happiness in rainy days and soft kisses, poetry, I want to measure my recovery in full meals and trash bags full of razors, in tears shed by my eyes instead of my skin. I want to measure my free time in independent movies and 4 different kinds of music- indie, hard rock, classic rock, and pop-punk. I want to measure my infinities in starry night skies, galaxies, constellations, physics books I got in middle school and his eyes, his smile. I want to measure my victories in minutes without smoking and my losses in blaring headphones and labyrinths of white smoke. I want to measure my work ethic in sick days and missed bills. I want to measure my heart in belly dancing and ***** converse, in beanies and minutes spend holding him. I want to measure my life in written chapters and highlighted smiles in blue Christmas lights and TV show references, in my favourite movies and novels and songs and my dependence on myself, in cans of Peace Tea and Pringles and not regretting eating, in pens that help the words flow and laughs, smiles, hugs, kisses, and hope that in the future things will be alright... More alright than they are now.
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I hover over your words not for perfections. *don't paint me an azure sky cotton clouds a field of sunflower gold crests of afternoon waves dark labyrinths inner demons or even angel faeries* for my life of half drawn images half digested joys faintly lit phantoms rough edge rugged walkway write me out a flawed poem imperfected to the hilt no structure no style wild jots of your thoughts just like you and me flawed but heavenly!
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 12:26 PM UTC
Imperfection