Picturing Poems

Love Kissed the Sky

...I just want to catch you on a date 
in the middle of the ocean,
with all the running lights
on your face.

Picturing us in the sky, 
which are captured
in your eyes.

The breeze playing 
wi...

Lookingglass

...Plain bronze frame,
warped oval glass,
a flea market find,
a lead-laced history of light.

Gazing into it,
he sees a mind picturing -

a boy and girl on a park bench,
the boy is looking at h...

The lies they killed us with

...They starved our bodies of love 
Then complain how our bones shake in fear
They strip us of our dignity 
Then glare at us when we jave nothing to wear
They take our souls 
Then question when the...

Wishful Glimpses Through Timeworn Windshields

...I would 
Wish you 
The worst 

But yours 
Came true 
First 

Feels like 
That red light 
Gets longer every day 

Though I can’t 
Help but stare 
At the place I last kissed you 

Count...

A Snowy Day in April

...It was only a sprig
of red berries poking through
a mantle of snow.
But something in their quiet defiance—
so small, so sure, so bold—
stopped me in rushing mid-stride,
as if beauty had broken
...

Parasitic Perspectives

...Humans is what we are because we have a skill given to us
Under a word called metacognition
Maybe that feeling of metacognition gives us the opportunity to trust
Availing our own thoughts, feeling...

Hypnotic verse

...There's no horizon left,
I was awake and slept.—
Moon was aligned with 
Stars and my own myth.

Night reveals the intense love,
Which were kept hidden in light.—
Dreams felt like a curse,
Tur...

Not so sure about the combo

...
I'm caramel, gooey and sometimes saucy.
Sweet but sometimes salty.
Everybody knows it ~ not sure if you do

I'm still figuring out what you are
because once I've seen your prickly side
I keep...

Memories of Jessie

...
(A lone voice whispers)

It's early morning as I stand here in our old bedroom 

Listening to my old friends the robins, blackbirds, and thrushes 

The twitterings, tweeting and chirps of wil...

Taste

...Taste 

See you doing what you do best,

Hopping around, laying on every female chest.

I guess you like the rhythm of their heart,

Or is it because it feels like art?



You said you ha...

The Blues Music

...When I think of the blues music,
I’m picturing a man singing 
while playing his guitar and a
liquor bottle nearby to drink.

Heartache and sadness cross my mind,
when I think of the blue...

Lingering Embers of an Abandoned Campsite

...I'm drawing the sun on an empty ceiling 
But I still bring the clouds in my own way 
You wanted a goddamn college essay 
But there was nothing else to say 
She's the tortured soul in all of us 
...

Memories

...Poem: Memories
Poet: Sulamani P. Dukuly
Netus N. Nowine, Jr.

Sulamani P. Dukuly: I once had a memory and never will I forget
I can't stop picturing all of the moments
we once had and shared to...

THE LAST MEMORY OF YOU - A CREEPING PAST

...Each memory of you
Pays every pain due.
A hurt I tried to erase
But it's etched in my heart to my last days.

It's just like yesterday
Picturing how you were held
With every emotion propelled
...

Purple Butterflies and Raindrops on Roses

...Purple Butterflies and Raindrops on Roses

Open my eyes. See the window covered in tiny beads of wet. Hear the raindrops on roses that line the building.  That isn't right. Why can I hear the soft ...

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