At the Bottoms Dropped Out
...At the Bottom's dropped out.
I'll write to you
the end of the story.
The only one i know.
Sundown on a field of dandelions.
No step closer to rapture,
I smiled with no hurry
when i found m...
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Categories:
lampblack, destiny, friendship love, summer,
Form: Free verse
Cracking As Broken Toys
...Picking up my phone, the voice recalls my memories
Sweet talker across the line, hey... it's been a while
Days running, things change, here we are aloof in our boundaries
Trapped within our history,...
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Categories:
lampblack, dark, friendship, pain, old,
Form: Terzanelle
To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part Two
...Part Two
To have written is to leave but a mark
nothing stands for the proud rhyming syllables
more than his acquired business acumen
a Vaishya karmic hope
Now we stand aghast before this edi...
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Categories:
lampblack, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Birds of a Feather
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Your
flight
lit
trees like lampblack ocean petals
patterns
ripping trapping
Me
this petrified me
he said
and you agreed
Lights
winged torches in the terracotta foothills like
li...
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Categories:
lampblack, friendship,
Form: Free verse