With the sudden pang in your abdomen
And the onslaught of terror,
Did you look around one last time
At the familiar keepsakes on the fireplace
Or did you avert your gaze?
In the frosty darkness of that night
As you climbed to that holy shrine
With mud colllecting at your ankles,
Did the Virgin hail her unexpected visitor
or did she avert her eyes?
And as you laid there,
In your bed of stone
And when that moment came at last,
Tell me, were you revealed or petrified
As you finally held what was always yours?
Were you afraid you’d burn -
Not like the sages in their holy fire
Or were you pierced with peace,
Gazing into his evanescent eyes
In that still darkness of the night?
Categories:
avert, ireland, religion, woman,
Form: Free verse
Who knew you were an ammunition,
A camouflage with a malice!
I'm still numb from the revelation
No matter how much I try
I'm afraid that I might risk walking the path
that killed all my dreams I'd reinforced spellbound by your lies!
I'm locked in your cellar
For the crime of conviction
In the castle you built
And called our home!
There's a door on your side
I know l'd never dare to knock
The door wrapped in Bougainvillea
Hiding behind them
The thorns of your sweet excuses!
I know I must avert
And disappear into the fog,
Hoping you'd then realise what a loss feels like!
But, my limbs are paralysed by the venom of trust
That sluggishly ran through my blood
Tormenting me all these years !
Now,
All I need is an escape
Is that too much to ask for?
Categories:
avert, anger, betrayal, evil, prison,
Form: Free verse
Devestation by the mountain, a warning now to all.'
Life is fragile.' Who can know.? Or avert when such a disaster
Decides to fall.?
Categories:
avert, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The reminder, the shattering of my drinking
glass
This put paid to my sleep as a
gloss
It was only the relationship that was
broken
Though my heart had me earlier
fortoken
I have since gathered myself to avert more
loss
Categories:
avert, betrayal, break up, friendship,
Form: Limerick
Then shall I say I could no other do?
That fate beyond divine compelled my act?
That like a bird on wires my mission flew?
But that's a game of words, and not of fact.
Full well I knew how best to calm my mind,
From huddled suffering to avert my eyes;
To on Olympus joy and music find;
To drink ambrosia where but pleasure lies.
But one must do one's math across the all,
To give one's scope of thought a greater room;
And even as a god, my part was small:
'Twas choice, and not a fate, that sealed my doom.
And if the cost has been both life and soul,
The gift has value far above its toll.
Categories:
avert, conflict, courage, fate, fire,
Form: Sonnet
I don't like anyone, especially you.
Some are still up in the clouds, next to you.
My eyes avert you, down on my knees
Drink till I ache, ditsy-stole
knock on the red door
I don't even like you,
against the wall
I kiss you until our lips are bruised
No-"take a shot"
"Just one more"
Isn't that what you came here for?
I see a face in the window
Stranger in the mirror
it is just a cig
drunk dance on the roof-
with you.
I thought I didn't like you
you're on my
your body sinks around mine:
places it doesn't belong.
I wish I didn't like it.
I wish it wasn't you.
Categories:
avert, anger, drink,
Form: Free verse
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”- Mahatma Gandhi
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Inner Strength
When clouds of despair shroud the mind
And darkness of night veils the soul
It is time one`s anchor to find
And the inner strength to enrol
To avert down a ditch to fall
Or head oneself against a wall.
Categories:
avert, inspirational, life, self, strength,
Form: Rhyme
If ever you loved…
You would see the hurt behind my eyes,
your heart would soften at the sound of my cries
If ever I knew love, I would know it doesn't have to hurt;
that I should not always your temper have to avert
With an enemy's force your affection is shown;
with a battered innocence I remain for the unknown
If ever you loved, before you a treasure you would see
If ever I knew love, I’d know that it wasn’t each time you hit me
Categories:
avert, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections in the glass
Your face
Appears behind my shoulder
So beautiful
So pure
I gaze upon your every line
Expressions change
With the background
Of a passing life
Your eyes close
As if you are as tired
As I
A slight smile
You know I can't
Avert my eye
A coy look
I didn't know
I could l Iove you more
Leaning forward
To be closer
To smell my aftershave
Closing my eyes
I feel your hands
Gentleness
As you place it
On the back of my head
I wish
I could drift away
Let it all go
Expressions change
With the.background
Of a passing life
You look sad now
The rain
Makes it looks like
No
You are
Crying
As your hand
Slides
Down the back of my neck
And away
Don't go
Please
I am tired
Stay close to me
Or again
I will stumble
In the dark
My plea
It goes unheard
And the bus
Jerks to a stop
I exit
Into a dark
Drizzling night
My expression changes
With the background
Of a passing life
Categories:
avert, courage, cry, fate,
Form: Free verse
I am...
quintessential optimism;
the rainbow you see
after the rain is gone.
I am...
order amid the chaos;
l reconstruct
life's crumbled foundation.
I am...
beauty in ugliness;
don't avert your eyes!
I am...
a celestial messenger,
so prick up your ears.
I'm asking you
to choose faith over fear;
things aren't as bad as they seem.
I'm asking you
to walk out on darkness,
to me, the light.
I'm asking you
to believe in dreams;
they are real and true.
I'm asking you
to look to the sky
when you're lost;
I am your North star.
David Bowie sang
a song about me;
yes, you guessed it
I am...
Starman,
but, I'm also...
guess who?
Categories:
avert, encouraging, life, wisdom,
Form: Personification
just outside beyond my door
I know that he is standing there
and reminders I do not need
of that which he will bring
and I will turn avert my eyes
and stop up my listening ears
and my thought to other things turn
so that they will not me remind
and I do wonder how that they
seek out all that they can learn
study of his many ways
and of the fascination they do find
for I do wish that I could forget
and even that I had never learned
how each day would now be filled
of all the things the wait without
and inside where I do hide
I do wonder of their joy
how the seek of all the things
that from which I run away
and they call invite me in
that with them I might share
of all the joy that it does bring
not knowing why I turned away
yet I know I cannot forget
that someday he’ll enter in
and no more may I hide
from the one who waits outside
Categories:
avert, poetry,
Form: Free verse
No need to ruin rainforest
It can be done in the desert
By planting trees or palm trees
To avert desertification
I see africa is turning green
I see Gobi Desert is getting green
How God has given man a chance
To rectify our forefathers aggrieved
Nature affluence and reaping poorly
Singapore rose to economic guru
Did not forget greening its cities
Environment is love by Environmentalist
Nature is worshipped by gods
Man is human who keep his surroundings safe
Love begets love when we take care of nature.
Categories:
avert, caregiving, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Dry dust rises behind me as I walk
The earth has become a panting sterile desert
Words become incoherent and rattle as I talk
Dry dust rises behind me as I walk
When I try to communicate, people begin to mock
Before reaching my destination, my path I divert
Dry dust rises behind me as I walk
The earth has become a panting sterile desert.
Dry dust rises behind me as I walk
Words become incoherent and rattle as I talk
When I try to communicate, people begin to mock
Before reaching my destination, my path I divert
The earth has become a panting sterile desert
How my pitiable fate, I can ever avert?
Categories:
avert, anxiety, betrayal, journey,
Form: Triolet
How you feel is not enough,
You as this is less than function,
Avert the feel, replace with stuff,
Or suffer states, disjunction.
Comparing scrambled eggs to buzzing locust,
To the mumbled mind within you,
Hocus pocus, lack of locus,
There's too much to think or do.
Is it magic, the spectacle, the prance of flicked rays?
Distracting as you navigate your ways,
Through this nothing filled by gaze.
The TV sounds like lightbulbs burnt,
The filament ablaze; fidelity.
Tinnitus chimes, claiming weren't;
External cause for remedy.
I can feel the TV hum, the windows wake my earlobes,
Aghast by glass, the lampposts shook,
I'd rather nether regions probed.
I sense that I can't sense a thing,
Nothing lurks beneath my brain,
Haunting me to always bring,
The me who flees from fear and pain.
Poisons for potions,
Pills provide motions,
A corpus of nervous commotions,
Despite that, these without,
I'm better about,
But me: I continue to doubt.
Categories:
avert, abuse, anxiety, depression, drug,
Form: Rhyme
you’re bright
so dazzlingly, overwhelmingly bright;
you’re the sun that sears the sky and
all the earth can only stare
i want to hold you
to cup you in my hands
to feel your warmth between my
palms and see your light run through my fingers
for the rest of my life, i want to have you with me
to warm away the winter chill and light up the night
but it hurts-
it hurts too much to bear
the you who burns brighter than the sun— who burns
my eyes with your shine— the you who hurts
too much to hold
i can’t ever have you in my life
i want to avert my eyes
to forget your light
but you’re just so bright
you’re too brilliant-
i can’t ever look away
Categories:
avert, allusion, analogy, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
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