Obliquely Poems

Rules

...One must master the rules
before breaking them -- it is
like that, especially with poetry: 
One learns to logically manage
the spaces~ what isn't said, the
pauses and non verbal connective
feel...

Unveiled

...
At the mellow edge of dusk where the sky
is opaque and blushed,
a languid fade of light obliquely dreams.

Eyes bruised by loss are made translucent,
a sorrow is captured, a memory mirrored.
...

The Co-dependent

...Opening the door onto your secret,
my heart pounds at the display of old wounds. 
Healing achieved by clinging to nothing—
a future only obliquely glimpsed.

My heart pounds at the display of ol...

Interlude

..."In life, grief outweighs joy and laughter is an interlude between two sighs."
                                             ~By Poet~

Isn’t it sheer destiny that you and I were born,
...

Painted Smile

...It’s all an act, can’t you see?
A pretense of Shakespearean complexity
A mask of so many layers it’s hard to hold
Yet it only gets heavier as this sorry life unfolds
If you really cared then you’...

We Came From Different Worlds

...we came from different worlds
cowboy boots and motorcycle
she carried pen and paper as did i
hers was to communicate with the world
mine was the labor in poems
i walked the high iron
she taught...

Each Passing Cloud

...In the ebbing glory of the night
As the moon with a pallid face
Moved away and hid herself,
The sun with his lustrous rays 
Appeared through the cracked walls of the sky,
To wake the...

Living

...
"Living"

That one-eyed god, 
that strange god
the colour of the sun,
leonine, speaks 
in strange ways to me, 
waking me up
purring seductively,
message received
obliq...

The Dawn

...The Dawn

I have voyaged far, crossed many oceans
I have seen the unseen, the grotesque.
We are cable of, but I have also met kind
people, I never sank into the abyss of cynicism.

I have seen...

Quintessence

...QUINTESSENCE


an absence
of
fervent
  intensity

in  miniature
with
infinite
  equivocation
 an ambiance
of impressioned
sensations

a resurgence
  of an elide
intermix
apparently...

A Mysterious Voice

...From here and there, I hear him speak
His voice, falling in mild whispers
But he always plays hide n’ seek
Never once I could see his countenance

At times he speaks loud n’ clear
Sometimes so ...

The Body Personal

...The body-personal will be achieving little today.
Today is a too tight T-shirt.

Bloat and insomnia
have measured and found soft round toads
croaking in the swamp of being.
There are squawky
o...

Kaleidoscopic Webbed Wide World Deux

...Carte blanche, 
this scribe bandies, exercises, 
and indulges inexplicable gravitas 
drooling, extolling, and fielding greatness, 
frothing handily, indubitably jinxed, 
linkedin as some lingual...

The Canvas

...The canvas is bare
Potentialities abound 
There is a moment of inspiration
Something, perhaps profound

A vision, an image
A thought in the mind
A 16th century renaissance landscape
An abstra...

Departed

...Life, they say has no meaning,
If all that we live for is an illusion.
If you don’t see my efforts,
Then why do I try it anyway?
Why give my best,
If my best is not going to get me anywhere?
It...

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