The South Bay
...
No glamour here in the South Bay
where function and industry reign
just an occasional seagull is seen
gliding over steel grid power lines.
The daily westerly winds whistle
swaying a small ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, boat, water,
Form: Free verse
In an old book, with torn pages, my soul navigates through labyrinths of dreams
...In an old book, with torn pages, my soul navigates through labyrinths of dreams,
seeking the hidden story in the silence between the lines, where words were never written,
I try to fill the gaps wi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Moonlit Path
...
Slithering and Creeping Along the Moonlit Path
Where Dark Desires Permeates the Hidden Caverns of My Heart
An Enchanted Road, A Supplicant Ritualist Journey
Beyond the Seas of Perpetual Agony
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, moon, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
To the Strongest Woman I've Ever Known
...To the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
The brightest light in every
Room, Church,
Hall and building
That she
Ever entered.
To the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
You never knew
How y...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, anxiety, grandmother, grief, growing
Form: Free verse
Schools are Changing
...Gates once locked with poverty's rust
now swing on golden hinges
Every child a key-holder:
the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness,
the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mat...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, appreciation, books, care, change,
Form: Free verse
Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
...I. Sighting
I saw you
through refracted light-
a prism of chance
splitting ordinary into spectrum.
Wind-tangled hair
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails
th...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, dream, innocence, journey, loss,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Zen mode
...the Bindu point pulsates
wherefrom soma nectar flows
the pathways magnetism navigates
a secret God alone knows
we are but a receptor
recipient of divine grace
bliss pierces each body vector
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Resurrected Rhapsody
...
flow of awareness
intuitively intrinsic
channeled
through tunneled time
navigates
cognitive impulses
basic
incessant surge
of
envelopin...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, analogy, introspection, joy,
Form: Free verse
Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch
...Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.
I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, brother, child, childhood, heart,
Form: Free verse
deer spirit guide
...grace and gentleness
deep connection to nature
my deer spirit guide
her tranquility
navigates life’s challenges
cultivates my peace...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Senryu
TO BEING IN ASSURANCE OF SELF
...TO BEING IN ASSURANCE OF SELF***
In your life’s sojourn,
Step off in undying faith;
Hope leading you on:-
Fear not death’s shadows,
Let grace light up your pathway;
Reflecting the trek:-
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, allegory,
Form: Prose
Ramana’s inquiry
...the object the subject has dreamed
moves within the dream realm so conjured
acquiring an ego, a temporary consciousness
to navigate the terrain where it has been so placed
being hypnotised by...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
You are here, yet not truly, suspended between two paths
...You are here, yet not truly, suspended between two paths,
That intertwine, each with a drastically different end,
Your hesitation is like a dance on a fine wire, one step towards one,
Means leavin...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A day in HER life
...At dawn, she wakes, the sun gently whispers, A new day unfolds, full of hopes and blisters. A Nigerian girl, dreams so bright, In the labyrinth of life, she's ready to fight.
SSCE and JAMB, hurdle...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Love
...My Heart is a Blank Space
A fertile ground where wilted roses
gain life and bloom—an evergreen
it becomes (the anchor of passion)
A beacon of romanticism
An emblem of eternal love
___of j...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
navigates, beautiful, cute love, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Related Poems