Life’s Jackdaws
I wish it were now! Yes now!? ?Seven tens and two years further along,
like that dead headed summer garden, you know the song, you a long time gone,
In your eyes I saw all the answers, to all those questions which I never knew then,
you never spilt any, I constantly watched for drips of clues uttered unhidden.
Oh, and how, now, that impossible conversation would level this rutted path of blunder,
wonder rattles those memories, stirring thoughts echoing as loud, rumbling mind thunder,
in a spiteful way, where washed up confusion reigns answerless, wishes would become,
a frail burnt paper kite in a storm of lightning shadows, no solace to share just numb.
Instead, we coral horses galloping in endless circles, ridden by yesterday’s spectre,
So, we as empty wonder boxes, move on in the shadow of the hourglass’s collector,
we don’t see the time pass, we see the thoughts pass, on a destiny bound runaway train,
amid the cackling squabbles of life’s Jackdaws wielding their blunted knives life stained.
Categories:
answerless, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Subtle adrift in inundation
Enlarge can never behold the grip
Forsake bounty repel all cliff
Unprepared to kindle kisses
Child that never orphan
Endless bonds search knots
Wail of wind catches despair
Sands answerless all homes
Migrant birds flock to warmth
Flamingo across continents, forever.
Wasps festive in spring
Fragrance faint in day dry
Rays escort us everyday
As insects master their freedom
Delightful wings endeavor, butterfly
Colors and adorable motley flowers
Beauty everytime wanes
Between two beautiful fares
Paint the truth inside
Infinite that sincere utterless
Exquisite are speechless forever
Who can define softness
Charms of eternal belongs
Savor once in realization.
Categories:
answerless, family, feelings, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
Secrets spooned over !
the dipping of toast
into the steamed cup captured espresso.
Un-asked answerless questions.
They return spinning in an orbit of not knowing.
Chairs scattered; cold empty seats
the previous occupiers never to return !
All doors are open! and locked mindfully:
Between them truth struggles to breathe
choked by lies, in long dark years.
Now all exits lead out away beyond teenage years;
and their failing to look and ask .
The walls know! its dissolved into their existence.
To many doors, and not enough exits,
and a lost code of answers
sleep in distant soils and ashes,
still you don't know !
And never will.
Categories:
answerless, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry
The forest crowds the small campsite
By dying fire’s meagre light
I listen for the furtive flight
Of Nature’s creatures of the night
As chirping crickets’ songs unite
The fearful in diurnal flight
Race through remains of day’s last light
From Nature’s creatures of the night
Soon eerie fireflies ignite
A spectral vision taking flight
Make clear their presence here in spite
Of Nature’s creatures of the night
And owls hid deep in trees recite
Relentless question to the night
But answerless remain despite
All Nature’s creatures of the night
In dark foreshortened without sight
But limned and measured by the quiet
My patience placidly invites
All Nature’s creatures of the night
As dawn resumes its daily rite
I do not revel in her light
For I have witnessed more than sight
Through Nature’s creatures of the night
Written 5/23/2018
Categories:
answerless, dark, nature, night,
Form: Monorhyme
This heart of stone hides
a dream of a god whose voice
once was lost against
the terrific wind.
It became mutilated
then swallowed by the
cacophony of
silence. So, answerless he
slumbers now, yet still
ajar for long to
speak with a mortal one who
would dare to call thy true name.
Categories:
answerless, dream, god, heart, silence,
Form: Choka
I am alone, you are alone,
Come across and started crying,
Coz, pains were alike,
Sedative to each other….
Smiling at you, amusing at you,
Leaving my soul with you,
Make sunrise from your nights,
Leaving my depth with you….
Loving you was a fate,
Every time makes me pleased,
But! Why it happens?
Why you are so far…?
A few sorrows are filled,
A few are empty.
You too are miserable,
M too answerless….
My every expression queries you,
Do I really need you..?
Lesser is the lane, so is the heaven,
Is kismet brings us close….!!
Why you break me, my trust?
Is that hunger, relies on you..?
I found paradise on you,
Forsaking me alone, alone and alone….
Categories:
answerless, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss,
Form: Light Verse
When life gives you something you wanted,
But something you didn't expect,
It's a feeling that some would say haunted,
Their life in a retrospect,
You're thinking,
And acting,
And doing,
Pursuing the things you pursue,
But then someone will ask you a question,
That has left you without a clue,
Your answerless answers await,
As stress piles up on your plate,
But the entirety of life seems to lack,
Then you're left with the choice to go back,
It's repulsive addiction,
Some sort of fiction,
A riddle that's never solved,
But there's no room to fiddle,
You're stuck in the middle,
The problemless problem resolved
Categories:
answerless, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
There are moments in life,
Those defining crystal clear
Epiphanies that open your eyes.
There will always be the
Whys and what ifs
But there will always be
The whos who got you through it all.
Endless smiles,
Suffocating hugs and the
Occasional shoulder to cry on.
Darkness can drown you in its pain,
But joy,
Well that’s what holds you up,
Keeps you treading the dark waters.
Yes, even if you can’t swim.
The whys, the hows,
Those damn what ifs are
Things that are answerless questions,
But the whos will always,
Unquestionably remain
Close to your heart.
Categories:
answerless, life
Form: Free verse
Sunrise starts us on a new day
present tense is pushed away.
mind and body cleansed...
anticipation of the day is sensed
alive...just for the day.
The day lightens upon a meeting place
as the hands of time quicken their pace
Walking the human forged trail, you and I
the canopy of trees throw shadow to sky
shining...just for the day.
Thoughts long past arise, memories awake,
ever answerless about a path we did not take.
Return to today
...yet past thoughts stay
...answerless still
...resolution delayed.
happy...just for the day.
Stories are told, laughter is shared
silent moments between reflect the deepest of care.
Playful and fun, with an otherworldly feel
How many more moments like this can we steal.
complete...just for the day.
Sun dips down through the color streaked sky
already upon the time of goodbye.
As the light is fading, inevitably,
we delay our departure as long as can be.
Just for the day, I finally see.
Just for the day, just you and me.
Categories:
answerless, happiness, love, song-lyricday, time,
Form: Rhyme
No words
can be spoken,
no movements
can be made.
Life
is but a dreamstate
and the body
is a cage.
No sights
can be seen
through the
swaying black mist,
but sounds,
sounds large and small
are the only things
left to entice.
Lulling hums,
melodious beeps,
rythmical thumps,
and the voices
oh the voices.
So far, so near,
authoritative, daring,
heard
for uncountable hours on end,
until
there is but one to hear.
So far, so faint,
calling me
even though I can't understand it.
I crave to find
this heavenly voice,
but my cage
is untouchable
for life's current
flows steadily
through this lifeless form.
So I lay
in this endless, formless,
black limbo
without friend or foe.
To be tormented
by the voices
oh yes the voices,
and the sounds
so many, so different.
While time
is mearly a dream
I wish to end.
Categories:
answerless, angst, confusion, loss, sad,
Form: Free verse