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Matchboxes Poems

the end of security

...the end safety

No modern weaponry can stop this brutal onslaught.
The Med is far from here, where the Atlantic breeze is cooling
we who do not travel watch the fire with awe
Further afield, peo...

Categories: matchboxes, abuse, age, anxiety,
Form: ABC

Teeth

...Ill comply, ill apologise, im ing tired
I’ll hold your hand in mine, resigned, fingertips when i dont exist
Palm to palm on a good day, a lovers loss, no pilgrims kiss
A tragic play, no exit left....

Categories: matchboxes, 5th grade, addiction, child
Form: Free verse

Holiday Paradise

...Holiday Paradise

is burning Rhodes is surrounded by invading fires and blue sea
no modern weaponry can stop this brutal onslaught.
The Med is far from here, where the Atlantic breeze is cooling
...

Categories: matchboxes, absence, age, beach, creation,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Captured Moments

...The detritus of a household of smokers was a joy to the young child, stifled in a family he believed he had outgrown. Matchsticks, by the score, he used to build magical castles with towers to climb ...

Categories: matchboxes, child,
Form: Haibun

If Not Burning

...If not burned 

 Hellas is burning the Athens is surrounded by invading fires 
 no modern weaponry can stop this brutal onslaught.
 Greece is far from here, where the Atlantic breeze is cooling
...

Categories: matchboxes, arabic, beach, death,
Form: Blank verse

Honeybee

...i love the early morning rasp of his voice
the birthmarks and burn scars
midsummer skin
i love the sticky rash of lust
the way a heart ticks until it implodes
the sugar soaked kisses

i do not...

Categories: matchboxes, anger, anxiety, dark, love
Form: Free verse

A Matchbox In the Rain

...Unprotected piece of a house
exposed to fierce drops of water
prone to melt away in mud
like a music box in a matchbox,
unbelievable and unnecessary
and yet there,
a dwelling of husband and wife
to n...

Categories: matchboxes, allegory, family, husband, wife,
Form: Free verse

Dry Season

...Thick white clouds
Retracing posture
Atop the layers of earth;
Foggy shrouds of white
Overclouded landscape
Clogging the sunlight
In blurry unclearness.

In brown faded bushes
Lies inhalatio...

Categories: matchboxes, nature, seasons
Form: Free verse

Canterbury Landscape

...I use to hike through Flankers’ un-cobbled street
                       With easel and canvas hawking my mind

Sketching the apiary’s tenement
 Dull gray boxes densely scattered

             ...

Categories: matchboxes, placesme,
Form: Free verse

Hurt

...she hides her soul behind green eyes
what is she afraid of
what had she lost

she hurts so bad now
she is broken, peices
her will to go on bearly there

her compacity for happiness 
could fi...

Categories: matchboxes, sad,
Form: Free verse