Marriage Metaphor Poems

I was turning the bed,
knife-deep in dirt when I felt it:
that ache in the wrists
from too much tending.
And there she was again—
not in the muscle,
in...

Read More

Yesterday, you were two,
Today, you've become one;
A single string, knotted
Into a bow of eternal love:-

As trials and tribulations
test and tease your string,
The tighter the boe-knot
Must...

Read More

(Apropos Of You And Yours)


       Yesterday you were two;

        today you’ve become...

Read More

The cragged moon, a curdled, midnight bloom,
Where veins of frost, dissect a shadowed room.
A galaxy of mold, on lunar stone,
A whispered legend, soft and darkly...

Read More

END TIMES : TWO

End time dramas continue 
to unfold as foretold 
tribes of Judah and 
Gad united in ether
descending conspiring 
to pull Matrix strings 
across...

Read More

My boat sails off on a lovely day,
the future unknown as it drifts with the tide.

A storm rises, ferocious and unrelenting,
dragging me to the bottom...

Read More

        I bring my
       cloudy head
      to...

Read More

Here lies Anna, 
lost without her mate,
he's promised to another,
an honour,
trapped within his fate.

Savage, this hand,
dealt in arcane amour,
her affection cannot placate, 
nor dictate,
that which...

Read More

We, 
with the geometry and evening 
balance of our midcentury hands—gently 
lower the cloche over the day between us. It is a 
nightly ritual, gravity-driven,...

Read More

Such is a sorrow sculpted of sunstone,
Immortalised with studious refrain,
Tragedy, still, in beautiful atone,
Exuding light from a languish of pain.

Young Venus, I be, suspended in...

Read More

Regret beats down like rain
Longing is like a still aquifer
No matter how I cup my hands
Regrets slip through my fingers
Filters underground to longing

All my failures...

Read More

While love blinds,
friendship opens your eyes!

only friendship
makes unequal
equals...

If love is fickle
and may leave,
friendship is more durable
and can stay!

there was never friendship
in friendships that
  start...

Read More

I married the place where I was born at a second time, 
Even today, your chest is still holding,
The vibrations that become intense,
When my hand touches...

Read More

Bantu men always fight 
For very beautiful flowers, 
------------------------------------------
Reason why they pay
More cows to get roses.

April 27/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe 
      Mussabwa Chris

Message: 
A very...

Read More

he is not human
like you and I
For she is my mistress 
I can not lie

I chance it all
To mount her peak
My mistress’s name
My wife now...

Read More