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Best Poems Written by Sandra Shokry

Below are the all-time best Sandra Shokry poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Your Room

Behind your earlobe there was a birthmark that had the shape of palestine 
But they taught you in there that it was called israel 
In the hearth of your chest lied a heart full of vitriol
Out of your choice they altered your pulse, degraded your work 
they treated your sixty beats as the clock ticking away sixty seconds 
They manifested you as a clockwork
You sought the sabbath like a reaper
sought the harvest 
All of your zest was sucked out 
To fuel their comedown machine with it 
They enforced you to live behind the doors
To love a country that was never yours
Ought to learn the rules of a game you loathe 
Ought to learn  crescendo and decrescendo , both 
On a monday , i peered through my window and found you burning your paintings , your art 
The art that made me fall for you like the snow fell on everest , didnt they teach you that too? 
Snow fell on the havocked cielings of the kids of indochina too ,yet you never knew 
The next week you were hypnotised by your mother's gramaphone's blues
Immobilized in your second prison awaiting divine intervention or cues
On wednesday clamor rose in your cell and into your cells 
Both of your parents , ignited coals but luckily cathedral bells 
Covered your yelps 
I saw you from a nigh distance 
As the one between helsinki and tallin you knew from the geography book you were blandly eyeing 
You had a globe but your thoughts were never airborne
You had a soul but you deemed it way fainter than the infamous coals you stared at 
Thursday morning i resumed my ritual but you changed your entire course , mine aswell 
Your books towered beneath your feet
Which hung limply in the air 
Your birthmark was covered with the noose you tied around your head 
The geography book became your execution platform 
The thing was , i had the exact same book 
And im about to ensue you but first let me burn my poems.

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Notes of a Rebel

Rays of sunshine of a thousand suns fill up my heart and lungs 
Polaroids arent the only things i have lost 
Wars arent the only things i have won
filters on my tongue and screen blur the scene and block the scream
I raise bars and delinquents
Novas shine for my rejects
They're televising our revolution while shedding our blood 
Drapes cover my mouth and eyes
They despise , analyse and paralyse 
But never dare to relinquish my shrine
The shrine in the depth of my mind is your home 
Overseas it's just your confine
Poignance is in resonance but it pauses just for you 
your hopes freefalling with aches and i deem solace yet ask 
Do you ever count the waves that crash down to build you?

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Dwellings of a Lost Lover

I dwell in the stars
I swallow the celestial beings , haunt the supernovas
 if you look up far 
You will find me ,the bate of parasites
Watching out for you on your vagabonded nights  
I dwell on the seaside 
I inhale nautical air and swing on riptides
Kaleidoscopic Seashells , oysters I gathered by morning 
Heartaches , ashtrays flood me by night 
The same night of the darkness that blinds you , unwinds you 
I dwell in the forest 
Mounted cedars and stung by pine 
All i do there , all i do anywhere is leave my walls  uphill   
Your relics in my shrine
Your odor in my wine  
I sought the forest fires , they told me they purify and rewind 
I dwell in all of your whereabouts 
But i dont dwell in you , yet.

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Hauntings

All the neon lights at sight 
Wont fill the void in your bed 
Im the void 
All your marxisms stand corrected 
The anarchists rejected 
Will your sullen doctrines console you at nignt? 
Weather the storms  , joan 
Cannot withstand solitude? 
But The buendías can 
Recall your faze , your pop culture phase 
Modern artists , french new wave
Our youth was a maze 
Albeit as not as bleak as our present  
The Scandinavian weathercasts that daily swallow us 
You were never a Hamlet , Orpheus 
I was never an Eurydice ,
but rather an Ophelia 
Hey nonny , nonny 
I spread the flowers on my grave 
They way i always did since birth 
The sun also rises but im eclipsing 
Elapsing 
Collapsing
Help me ,Hemingway 
Where do our saviors vanish 
When we dont ask to be left be ?

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Alcohol Thoughts

If i could summon you to my perception
Or host you whole to my being 
Only then 
Only then would you fathom the wreckage 
And take a dip in my alcohol thoughts
Or come watch me redeem my aggravating flaws 
Hues from my mouth dripping void , dripping scarlet
Like the letter except that im unwritten
And the sounds of ill relief form an orchestra in my ears 
They are diamonds , not tears 
Pulled triggers not passing years 
Im only dreaming when my my head hangs low 
only winning when my mind is stray 
Im more familiar with the shattered glass yet your touch cracks more of me 
Be the muse to my blues 
Or just be , thats enough for me 
Pour gasoline to the inferno 
Hang me by the neck like your dartboard , aim the dart
I'd rather you be the wretched end of me than anybody be my clean cut start 
They'd offer you umbrellas in the rain 
Then you'd have me asking if all is resolved by my lipstick stain?
During the harvest they'd help you with your grain
I, my eyes'd mist 
pleading in your arms wondering whether your love for me was washed by your terrain 
But darling , if you chose the vodka off the rack of the champagne 
You'd have to accept the bitter warmth of it , hauling at you like acidic rain

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Vertical

If i were to adapt to your absence shall i burn the polaroids? 
If you were to leave me shall you drink your nights away ? 
I stand corrected while you stand alone 
and  i have been cocooned all night in your jacket 
my dear open bracket 
What type of medicine have you been hooked on this week , any week ?
Which bone did you break this month ? 
My resilient home , my melancholy syndrome
Where are you when you are right beside me 
I ponder when you are that yonder 
I have been screaming all night 
My love , my inertia 
Im staying vertical although not afloat.