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Les Cirque des Morts Collab with B J Fitz

...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades  overgrown fields,  
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.  
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—  
bloated a...

Les Cirque des Morts, Collaboration with Sara Jama

...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,  
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.  
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—  
bloated and we...

Torrid Affair

...
If, as the saying goes,
'There's no smoke without fire,'
is it smarter to ignite a spark
(illumination causation)
than bedamn the dark,
and thereby induce a funeral pyre,
or, better y...

The Vessel pt 2 - Leviaethan

...The Vessel pt. 2 - Leviæthan
 
                       I

'neath the grim pallor of a Plutonian moon, 
Sheltered in the cloak of Phantom's embrace, 
A tempest rages within flesh— ento...

AUSTERE TIMES

...Milk bottles we would rinse out and return.
Pop bottles take back to claim the tuppence. 
Kellogg’s cartons collected for the kids
To cut and paste and learn creative art.
Unburnt cinders reclaim...

Sad Times of India

...fire everywhere with explosive volcano
one fire remained unburnt
echoing sad times of india

congregation selling child
it is sad times of india

fire everywhere with explosive volcano
one fi...

Poetic Living

...I am introspective
I am extrospective
I am healing my ills
I am building my will

I narrate
I assimilate
I am making sound out of ink
I am settling a drifting idea till it sinks 

I memoris...

The Rooms of My Mind

...These rooms. The smell. Stale. Stacks of forgotten books. Pages chewed by rats. The windows are broken and the walls have holes. Paint and wallpaper peeled away. The years have been harsh. 
 I run  ...

Fireside

...By the fire in the night
Fireside firelight
Feeding air the flaring flames
Glowing dimly of amber orange 

Slowly charring smoke rising up
By the fire in the night hearing that slight pop
Snap...

Your Darkness Punishes But Does Not Win

...Your Darkness Punishes But Does Not Win

Ravaging of Time- its sharp savage blades
Often minor cuts, blood spilled with no thought.
Hidden pains of lone, dark nights, midnight raids
From which n...

Half a Heart

...Half a heart




If I am at work
or at leisure
with half a heart,
No echoes, no thrill ...

Like an unsung song
broken strings of piano,
Waiting no mend
dying slowly, forgotten.

Like ...

To a Never Receding Echo

...ODE  TO  A  NEVER RECEDING ECHO
For  Onyebuchi

Day  and night in an eternal combat.
A  truce : the eternal cycle of night and light
Lost in the ruse of an  eclipse.
Where is the truce in the  ruse o...

When Death Calls

...In a shroud  of darkness 
Her  stallion  neighs , leading death  to 
where death preys. 
As black as the night  as cruel  as the day 
Her aura speaking , in different  shades of 
grey 
Steadyin...

Lessons In Life

...Some of the benefits of life
are to be able to use what we have learnt
stuffed full of knowledge so rife
some of which when we find usage get us burnt

Although most of us will encounter some strife
...

The Elasticity of Love

...The Elasticity of Love. 

Truth. Lies,

in-between, 
teeming mindscapes,
arrhythmic heartscapes,
wildly cacophonous soulscapes,

all the while as truth slips through the cracks, 
on time's wrinkled f...

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