Within the gyre of life self-centered,
Spins mental debris long since splintered.
This maelstrom of memories stretches and lengthens
Until a breaking point is reckoned.
Do bad dreams, and sins forgotten,
Lurk in minds long roiled and rotten?
And where is the relief from nocuous nightmares,
Vexing romances, and unanswered prayers?
When does the circle of life bring closure,
And will it end in full disclosure?
Life is too short for questions long.
And it should not end like a tragic song.
Categories:
nocuous, forgiveness, introspection, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The night sky
And the darkness it brings
The black scary bird
With the blues it sings
The fear made us still
Our hearts beating loud
It is me and you and us
And the air going doud.
Sitting under the moon
The silence cloaked us hard
Can a moment be this nocuous
Or it's the dumbness of this bard
Stuck in this void
So vexed , being daunt
It's just me and you and us
The puppets of this haunt.
It's long , it's eternal
This night won't end
It's just me and you and us
With no other friend
It's just me and you and us
With no one else to shend
Categories:
nocuous, anger, anxiety, bird, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Crystallized red, gold, green nocuous clang
of vertigo, bird-toons tweeting, knees on the rocks,
rolling eyes, coverlet-lids closing, discovered
in fetal position, cocooned in butterfly net.
“Don’t you have to go to work?”
“Have you eaten yet?”
“Shouldn’t you use the bathroom?”
“Your coffee’s gone cold.”
Vortex of colors inside chromatic coma, schmoozing muse -
her elixir mixed with vibrancy, deliciousness, chamomile.
Rippling sounds of waterfalls, crooning creeks, sentient sleep.
Lips murmuring as if in meditation, rambling in fevered state,
alliterative, rhyming, tossing crumbs and cookies, tasting
death and birth - primordial sampling, inordinate linguistics.
Rip Van Winkle at your side. He’s been kryptonized,
espoused likewise - in dreams and nightmares, terrorized
and raptured by a sea of imagery of red, gold and green—
might awaken in twenty years…twenty years that disappear.
9/21/2021
Categories:
nocuous, imagery, muse, writing,
Form: Free verse
A viper
Lethal
Fatal
Mortal
Pretending to be friendly
While nocuous
A masked personality
Full of pretence
Grinning face
But scowling and frowning
Hidden hatred
Veiled by a false smile
Indeed;
It is a friendly-traitor.
Drencho POET Loads.
Categories:
nocuous, evil,
Form: Personification
Make not a farce nor lessen my lament,
your weeping stains will hide my mask of dreams
for poison feeds your nocuous intent,
revealing naught of pain through silent screams.
Another victim broken lost and drained
gets left to cry with feelings stretched and strained.
I whispered coos to you my turtledove
left crushed beneath the words of ladylove.
Enough of sorrow's dim lit candle flamed
held close to flicker out as I but breathe
engulfed as if with magic, wild, untamed
as never more this love I will reprise.
Released I'll live again, my soul will soar
to know my fragile heart will break no more.
10/23/16
Categories:
nocuous, love hurts,
Form: Acrostic
DEVIL AMONG US or just MANY FACES
Hebrew described Satan as adversary,
Not a sole individual that you should worry.
But they walk among us.
They talk among us.
Never noticed? I doubt it;
As they drop their despicable bomb among us.
Never faced one? It’s skeptical,
Check out the mirror; they born among us.
In our era, it's people with many faces preying on disgust.
Let you out to dry scathe or rust.
A face that you thought you can trust upon,
Turned out to be loathsome with a prosaic face on.
Nowadays Satan suits up to a comic character.
You don't know what cynicism you come across at the end of your vector.
Nocuous it is, being credulous on your side,
don’t trust me? Try yourself as long as you can abide.
So what to do? Just wondering never resolves,
A face to develop a character to evolve.
Make your heart an invincible fortress,
Bearing plushy reflection, discreet your clouds of distress.
And every time the verdicts on you;
With a grin on face see if it comply, else eschew.
Just like everyone else around in demise,
Go on conceal your face, not even devil can recognize.
- Prateek Shukla
Categories:
nocuous, emotions, evil, hate, people,
Form: Rhyme
Enjamblious
Megalomaniac
When manic
Melancholia
Polar vortex
Mellifluous verse
As depression reversed
Darkness melodious
Nihilistic intelligence
Nocuous scribe
Demons of compulsion
And addiction
Haunt Storage
I
Described.
My will divide
My love denied
.
In desire.
I
Suffer
Rejection injection
Implied
Complication
This time.
REBORN OF FIRE.
This scorn. This Rhyme
An oversimplification
In elaborate diatribe.
The musings of a liar
Enjambment
Deponent in ire
Indignant inside
METRICAL MEANINGS
In toxic entrapment
Magical beginnings
Tragic endings
Are insipient
I
Describe.
Prophesize
Catastrophized
In a linguistic limit
In a New York minute
A Joke, A gimmick
I
Rationalize
Excuse the parts I despise
A doll indignant
Abuse in darts
Indifferent. Love dies.
Gave up. Barely tried.
Categories:
nocuous, farewell, self,
Form: Free verse