Shadows of the Valley
...O' moment
of mist-glazed melancholia ~
I'm shrinking in paper-cut smokes
of shrivelling sunsets,
amidst the seizures of silence, there I surf ~
in swollen skulls of selfless swan-orchids,...
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Categories:
bloodstones, death, deep, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse
Petals of Pain
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Once upon a time,
when juliet was a jewel
of psychedelic phrases ~
steering rubies of romance
to distant shores,
where sapphire seafoam
had never kissed the silence of sands ~
the...
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Categories:
bloodstones, anger, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Secret Sun Grace
...Written: August 2023
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moonless selflessness
heavenly bloodstones rainfall~
the beast rainstorms chomp
to hide in the...
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Categories:
bloodstones, analogy, appreciation, myth, nature,
Form: Haiku
Sun Too Needs a Savior
...Where does the
selfless sun hide
when heavens
r a i n bloodstones?
Burned and inscribed,
from monsoon monsters,
gnawing at our bones,
the shimmering
darkness imbibed,
If only d...
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Categories:
bloodstones, angst, emotions, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Stones
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Big stones, rig stones
Calling out to dig stones
Round stones, pound stones
Sitting on the ground stones
Small stones, wall stones
Make you trip and fall stones
Grey stones, play ...
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Categories:
bloodstones, fun, word play,
Form: List
Whisperings To the Midnight Sky
...I sat by a moonlit window last night
As sleep did not come- elusive as the Dugong-
My eyes but portal gazing wide into a deep vast sea.
The songbirds were hushed except for the nightjars and owl...
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Categories:
bloodstones, change, dark, destiny, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Luna's Lunatic
...Holding hands as we walk between headstones
Feeling like a cyclone trapped in a gemstone
Emotions materialize like amber in the concrete
Personified Hellfire and brimstone, turning birthstones to blo...
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Categories:
bloodstones, allegory, urdu,
Form: Rubaiyat
Bloodstones
...ean
blood that was spilled, gets mixed in,
staining virgin stones--
or are these lost souls?
time and tide try to wash them off,
but the bloodstones remain--
haunting reminders that one must not forget
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** inspired by the "bloodstones" found on Corregidor Island--
these stones literally look like they have rusty bloodstains,
and some say that these are from the blood shed by
the Filipino, American and Japanese soldi...
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Categories:
bloodstones, history, war
Form: Free verse