A soul's etched cartography
compasses spins a needle frantic
above a parchment of skin.
A map…
Each line a river I've drowned in,
blood I waded and divide
each faded scar
a language scarlet, unfound!
My soul no longer shapes
foreign land of waste annihilates
behind my eyes...!
I see nothing
deserts exhale silent sacred sands…
Hearts pulse with unheard drums
an archway to oblivion
weathered eons I haven't lived.
I drift towards a courtyard,
run riot in green eternally…
Where faces blur like old cars
my mind whispers, doom from afar
on winds that don't remember me.
Trace the contours of my lost continents
in this cartography of bone and shadow.
Forgotten by the wraiths of the moon…
that echo within my chambered heart.
A tarnished key lies heavy in my mind,
unlocking doors behind infinite walls… sublime!
In-fact
I don’t want
to dwell in your absence
Necessary life is rushing gradually
Silent breaths
draw the mural
of reinstated epic
No bridge of love but a long-live sigh
The verse of
untold history
evokes the yellow moon
Over the lamplit the eyed ink twinkles
Thorns or flowers
perfume the bed
of tattered notebook
The luck of infatuation is greater than the dream
Every moment
the absence
awakens me to the nib of fallen
Thus poetry never finds a way of life
Nature annihilates the rhythm of the heart
©Mahtab Bangalee/Feb'25
Confounded, to an empty space
I send my question mark
The voiceless echo blurs my face
I send again, when sky gets dark
Who’s me? another chimney mouse
Most decent of all mice
I wouldn’t take your time for hours
With me it would be nice
To talk about our everydays
How well it goes, what’s wrong
And what seems right, in other case
We wouldn’t talk for long
I know so well, that you have changed
But there’s no way I could
Foresee how life is turning strange
The whole new attitude
Annihilates the time, that passed
The words, that has been said
Maintains the distance, that is vast
And silence you have sent.
The time-space continuum,
containing God particles of wonder,
defined the nucleus of nascent creation
in the eternal niche of nothingness.
The collapsed stars of the cosmos,
the high gravity mass of celestial entity,
light can’t escape my event horizon,
encapsulates whatever I suck in.
My black force dilates time,
makes it run slow, even stops its flow,
annihilates all cosmic information
within my singularity mystic core unique.
Things created with God particles,
at the end of life time prime,
the unassailable essence
gravitates soul to disappear in my hole.
Let the music of life not be dead.
Acceptance makes all hassles minute.
Anticipate only good and go ahead.
Let the music of life not be dead.
Anger annihilates; fill the heart with love instead.
Insight can make everything cute.
Let the music of life not be dead.
Acceptance makes all hassles minute.
place : 5
Enough is enough--
seriously how would it not
The fog rolling over my eyes
over my body
this fog that swallows my voice
annihilates my being
digs deep to my very soul
losing the me that
i so wish you would
want to know
want to love
Lost to the taste
of absinthe on my lips
AP: Honorable Mention 2023, Honorable Mention 2023
"In the house of lovers the music never stops,
the walls are made of songs & the floor dances"
Quote by: Rumi
Beloved one you know me like you know the stars
and as I navigate inside the pathways of your light
I turn into a million fireflies inside this jar
of flaming hues, your brilliance is out of sight
Light of my life, you are the candle of my Empire
the blaze of my radiance, dear knight
you are my fire and the flame of my desire,
the breath that annihilates the night
January 14, 2023
Sponsor Regina McIntosh
Contest Name Beloved Poets
FARE-THEE-WELL TO RACISM:
I was really discredited in my own state,
However my lips don't annihilates.
Merely I lost my sentiment,
When I was treated with contempt.
Maybe you don't really understand this.
But anytime you also receive a diss,
You retaliate based on your feelings,
And you see it to be your healing.
Yet,what's wrong when my eyes speaks,
After you've made my heart bleed?
Is it wrong for me respecting you,
As an imperfect fellow human,
Or should I treat you like a pretty fool,
For you to say I'm very inhumane?
Frankly,unity is the beautiful clue,
That my heart beat for...as a truelove,
Only to make the world a fine place,
For us to have one big divine faith.
A divine faith to eradicate hatred,
The hatred that turns us into aliens.
Aliens that love and promote racism.
Which breeds wars and favoritism,
Through competitions and religions,
That lacks values and core reasons.
Is it wrong for my cutis being black,
And yours being white?
If No,why are we shedding blood,
In this unnecessary multiracial fight?
Please the world needs to stand as one,
To achieve the peace that we aspire.
surrender of thought
the tranquil stillness
enlivened by bliss
annihilates will
making us incomplete
until the currents
purr on uninterrupted
through day and night
no one remains
and yet we are
24-September-2021
Mom, you endured much pain
to bring me to this orb
showered untold love
from first
still
and perpetual
held my hand
when i first breath
reared on your milk
which is like god's nectar
drink.
your lullaby is dulcet
i out like a light.
precious
Soul of
sacrifices
affection and pleasure.
The love and support you give gives me so much glee.
The sparkle in your eyes
enlighten me.
sinewy beauty
gentle, yet so strong you're my cushion when i fall. you annihilates the troubles like
a tornado.
unbounded love that we both
share
thou never forgets to care. and been a pillar of my life.
you guide, comfort
A soul full of charisma
thou shalt, fetch the soul you set wings
of satan.
uplift me higher and higher.
Thank you
my Wonderwomen
for everything the master of all tasks.
Mom, no words to express you're my loveliest gift ever.
how much i love you cherish you e'er
Insidious harmony
inadequacy and impotence; infection of valet
destruction annihilates the human spirit
ballroom choreography reveals deficiency
stamina illuminated by revitalized behavior
impending fortitude seeks out the seeker
soaring ambitions will fertilize emergence
robust tenacity breeds dominating disposition
committing deportment flavors the hunger
concluding interlude contribute the means
seldom encountered but forever introduced
3/21/2021
Amazing alligators antagonize anyone’s annual anteaters
As antelopes arrive at the annual annulment.
Annoying Aunt Amanda alleges all anticipation awful.
As anticipated Abigail Alliwogger assassinates anteaters.
Anointed antonym annihilates Aunt Amanda and abdicates
Amazing alligators announcing annual anteater’s annulment.
Written 1-04-2021
Contest: Tongue Twister Challenge
Sponsor: Joe Sandler
Love to survive
A virus
There’s a virus
Roaming among us
It is lurking around us
Our hands cannot guard us
Our loved ones can’t hug us
Love is all we have as our protector
A love for a brother, a mother and stranger
A love that suppressed our fears and puts aside desires
The pain of isolation should shine with protection for one another
Every minute of sacrificed companionship annihilates the invisible danger
The only thing we need to survive and live is love and in turn we shall live to love each other
Wednesday Blasts Intrigue now,
Constantianus Flinches Inventory
Wednesday Atomizes Flutteriness now,
Dulcitius Plunges Editorial
Tuesday Bursts Giggliness now.
Tribunas Implements Snakes
Saturday Annihilates Disappoint now,
Maximianus Observes Zones
Life is great. Life is grand.
Things are happening and she is bobbing to the music
Her feet are prancing.
Her heart is dancing.
How could things get better?
BAM!
One phone call
Annihilates every bit of joy.
Gun violence.
She never expected it to reach her family.
But now it has.
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