rogue nation
modern slavery
vicious circle
coldwar
caste divisions up in arm,occupy regime
is it religious sects regaining regime?
is it erstwhile princely estate regaining regime?
is it foreign hand shaking regime?
the thin chicken neck chopped
india is now black hole india
inside amoeba like shapeless india
outside shapeless india
Categories:
shapeless, independence day, patriotic, scary,
Form: Political Verse
rain droplets falling
losing their ego roundness
shapeless fill all shapes
Categories:
shapeless, rain,
Form: Haiku
much like me on a sleepless night
i hear the roar of this restless ocean
pounding like thoughts in my head
as the wind drives me back
one step for every two i take
beneath this blood red rise of morning
inimical are these waves
as they lash out against the rocks
unleashing a spray
like a breath in winter's air
exhaled
yet it falls
like a rake against sand
claiming anything in its path
pulling it in then spitting it out
only to build again
like a raged mind
dissilient
i stand distanced
cowering on the sands
of time
awaiting its calm
June 24 2021
The Shape of water contest
Sponsored by Craig Cornish
Categories:
shapeless, angst, ocean, time,
Form: Free verse
Trembling, melancholy fingers mock the heart’s tenacity.
©4/6/2018
submitted to – MONOKU PICK A PICTURE WHAT CHA SEE – Poetry Contest
sponsor – James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
shapeless, irony,
Form: Monoku
I sit here without you,
Longing to feel whole—
A gaping void left wide open,
No shape fits the role.
A cloud’s silver lining,
Just a glimpse in the sky,
Mere minutes, and it was over—
You vanished; was it all a lie?
Your presence, your scent,
A fleeting shadow’s embrace—
Echoes of what once was,
A glimpse of a brighter place.
Now just a ghost lingering,
A haunting, private hell,
A reminder of what we could have had,
In silence, I dwell.
Categories:
shapeless, anxiety, depression, for him,
Form: Lyric
SHAPELESS TIME
Segments of evolving reality
Aging has altered my time
Savor shapeless pieces
Squander nothing behind
History of expiring world
Shock waves rattle your spine
Future of temporal uncertainty
Cyclone sweeping your mind
Distractions rob the senses
Electronics hasten the pace
Capture timeless memories
Prisoners of embrace
Rights of passage of eras
Sand slipping through rhymes
Flow of waning motion
Winter of shapeless times
©Lee Johnson
Categories:
shapeless, age, anxiety, loss, rights,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Im walking down
An isolated road
Wondering where my fate
Should go
Heaven or Hell
What should I choose
Heaven is on my right
Hell is on my left
I look to the ground
For some help by my shadow
But all I see
Is a shapeless shadow
On the left
Categories:
shapeless, depression
Form: I do not know?
The day will purge my darkest lies
Awake in myself, but asleep inside
The sun reflecting empty eyes
Igniting lost places within my mind
The night will never hold me still
Buzzing dark places that can not kill
The spiral of this endless pain
The spirit of darkness will rise again
The light reshapes what I’ve become
The shadows are torn as I’m undone
My body cold beneath those flames
No mercy for me; I have no name
More darkness crawling up my skin
The memories call, like burning sin
One word to rise in to the knight
A whisper of hate and I will fight
Again the sun is stealing sight
I will never sleep within this light
There’s such little truth for what I am
Constantly torn: the shapeless man
Categories:
shapeless, confusion, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Lyric
The shapeless water !
Can mould it in any shape,
But depth is its own.
Categories:
shapeless, nature,
Form: Haiku