Short Oppresses Poems

Unprison your heart
From invisible chains by
Opening the lock
That restrains and oppresses
You as an unseen fortress











Nayda Ivette
1-7-2016...

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Startled awake to ideas
of missions to be fulfilled urgently.
Plans prickle in my veins.

Eager, I jump, awakened. Mind runs
fast trains, I can’t keep up.
Looking down on this I see a

dizzy whirlwind of colour and shapes.
The trains will run until they burn out in fires aflame.
We’re unsure where to place the blame. 

God oppresses reproach....

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Though it’s man who makes war 
And who murders his kind,
Who oppresses and rapes and enslaves,
The question of guilt’s not so clearly defined
As the dead wash ashore with the waves;
And I’m cold and I’m weary and worn to the core
As I struggle to search for the light,
And I think to myself as the waters recede,
Maybe God needs forgiveness tonight....

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When the gray city oppresses me
when the sounds of traffic
and shouting people intrude,
when it all seems to close in....

I drift back to the ocean in my mind
where beams of sunlight
glimmer through liquid crystal
where giant kelp bows in the current
and a rainbow of fish gather to hunt and play

I too belong in the amber forest;
for there the infinite aqua mirrors my soul....

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