Confusion Paradise Poems

Give me a false hope.. 
By saying it is still a dream.. 
In any language
Even you are allowed to scream
The smile which was not fake.....

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Mistaking side by side pluralism
for more resonant 
co-infested polyculturalism

Is like mistaking chaotic divisions
for resilient organic complexity,
integral multiplicity

Like only perceiving competitive dissonance 
and degenerative
confusion
while missing inside...

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(Author’s note: This poem was written during the 2020 lockdown in the early part of the pandemic when many people were isolated and afraid. It...

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Smear it across the pages to satisfy your cravings,
Uncork that bottle, let it flow down the throat.
Knock on your opening passage,
To that unfamiliar figure, pass...

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Love from the mom who brought you
Into this world, invited you 
To believe in the good, the inspiring,
All the joy and beauty – the enchanting,
The...

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There's trouble in paradise
She notices a perturbation down below
It is there, lying in the darkness
The subconscious drives that disrupts her logical flow

It happens so slowly
And...

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When a nation cries, death rides the reaper is a stride, the loss of reasons in a Ludacris season, where men of nations think they...

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These objects are my blood and bone 

they gather in my dark history a voyage   

through turbulent sea and tyrannical lands 

I hide...

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I am death I am freedom  I am crying on my knees
I see glory I see sunlight I see him as I kneel down...

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She was my child,
we became good friends. 
Like kindred spirits, 
we made plans together.
But she understood loneliness,
the need for a man.
He came after taking her...

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Eternal Embrace

Come 
Wounded pilgrim
Enter
Thru portals never closed
To the eternal embrace
Of the dancing Spirit –
Weary warrior
Take off your armor
Leave your shield at the gates
Of luminescent pearls
Built...

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I hate you


I hate you
I hate you for you had all the time to tell me but you didn't
I hate you for you chose to...

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When I was about twelve
I began to see my future
as a ruthlessly effective
overpoweringly sublime advocate for justice 
as global peace outcomed and measured,
As a courtroom...

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Paradise Has Two Sides

So many think
- If there at all -
Paradise is someplace further away
Than their first thought on being born,
Than the thought that will...

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The scarred desk, littered
with the wrinkles of young,
melts into chocolate

canary
easter bunny
birdsong

My ear mutters
"Are you there"
not able to finish

my homework
grinding
pepper

she reduces herself to glossed lips -...

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