We’re just being ourselves
We’re not presenting ourselves
on a plate, commodifying ourselves.
We’re refined and pared-back—plain
but with an intriguing complexity.
We’re simple and indestructible,
our diasporic styles, assembled in a frenzy
by spontaneous instinct, need no audience.
You’ll find us in the coffee shops, the libraries
streaming and scrollin’ to unheard, noise-cancelled, beats
or in the bars kickin’—let the music play—I can’t talk much about it.
We’re not overly thought-out, sure, we ruminate, but then we’re
automatic rather than laboured, creative without overthinking.
We’re emotional and immediate, but clearly avoiding
slightly scurrilous condom entanglements—yeah
—there are reasons. true, true, true, true true.
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Songs for this:
Let the Music Play by Papik & Sarah Jane Morris
Soda Pop Confusion by Variety Lab & Kidsaredead
Categories:
entanglements, fashion, friendship, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
I am a free moral agent
I detest imprisonment
I abhor bondage
I reject life in the cage
I am imbued with the ability to choose
So I choose freedom
Freedom from political oppression
Freedom from economic oppression
Freedom from religious oppression
Freedom from poverty
Freedom from hypocrisy
Freedom to speak when humanity is in danger
Freedom to say yes when my heart means so
Freedom to say no when the world says yes
Freedom to be myself and nobody else
Freedom to stand on God’s authority
Instead of man’s majority
Freedom from demonic entanglements
Trials and temptations may come my way
But I cannot run away from them
Cause they speak strength to my life
I was born to be free
And so no impediments should limit my freedom
Categories:
entanglements, bullying, character, christian, dedication,
Form: Free verse
When we close our eyes and fall asleep,
dreams create a world tethered to our imagination:
where worrisome thoughts melt away like icicles
drip by drip.
And our subconscious
scripts our most intimate thoughts and desires.
Dreams are inked with raw feelings,
often underscored with vivid strokes of passion.
And our mind extends itself
to this tentative world
outside of emotional entanglements:
where hope navigates fate's treacherous waters,
immune to reality's rebuke.
Fantasy dreams show us what lies beyond
self-imposed doubts,
effectively expanding our view.
Like a dream, life is a journey of exploration.
We have no control
over its destination, or what course it will run.
We're all along for the ride:
and the best we can hope for
is to have some say
as to who shares the seat next to us.
Categories:
entanglements, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Let me not so much be lost in involvements
as would make me incapable of
recognizing the fragrance of the flower
beaming in my own yard; as would
divest me of time
for the merry sports of children
glee with the total joy of creation
radiant in their midst.
As would render me oblivious of my time
for the wind carrying the scents of love,
for the birds chanting the notes of life,
for sparkling waterfalls falling yet gay
and, too, for the stars fireflies carry
through the immensity of darkness.
Let me not so much be swept by haste.
Let me not lose the sight of myself
in the rush of life’s vicious circles.
Let me not go spiraling towards a peak
where vision would be blinded with
tears, washing down life’s rubles.
Not so much be lost as would have
no time to look at myself
ever. Not so much, so much be lost, just
to see the hue, grace, glory gone
off the face of my beloved
as I’d wake and be conscious.
How long would I run after the
time,
my mind just a cosmos of void?
Will you please go journeying
for your own sake,
till I come living a moment of life?
(Translated from Nepali by Manu Manjil)
Categories:
entanglements, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
EAGLE ENTANGLEMENTS
bold beauty
perilous dance of love
free-fall mate
part at the moment
glory before death
pause to watch
would you still choose me
or grab a safe branch
Categories:
entanglements, adventure, beauty, life, love,
Form: Ode