Under the Surface
...Friend,
Silence listens,—every thought we think,
each new feeling which soundless trickles by,
the twinge of untold pain, the snuck-in sigh,
are registered within the margin’s ink
Friend...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, conflict, humanity, hurt, introspection,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Frida Kahlo
...
Paint filtered through your pain
and came out as art.
Your broken body bent
under the weight of a brush
but did not succumb, instead
infused the canvas with fiery colours
mixed in the crucibl...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, art, beauty, pain,
Form: Free verse
Contrite
...Contrite
I'm supposed to sleep now,
right, how?
One single stone of such irrefutably
inferior quality
built into anything worthy
can destroy the entire entity.
Thus the...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
I walk the line of grief until I fall
...I walk the ambitious lines of laughter
I wallow beneath the unsavory sky black.
I could wait and explain the feeling of losing a home
Or I could wait until I forget.
Dirt beneath my bloody na...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
The Tears of the Wrong Woman
...Her tears fall like rain on a borrowed shore,
A quiet deluge, seeping through seams,
Staining the fabric of a life not hers—
His shirt, his collar, his cuffs worn thin,
Drenched in the sa...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, beautiful, betrayal, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Orchid Woman
...Oh you know the type—
the orchid woman
a cosmopolitan who cosmo sips
between snips of gist
her charisma a starship —collides
with your star-full eyes
supernova for Casanova
her pouty lips kn...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, beautiful, imagery, irony, power,
Form: Free verse
Bunnies Welcome Spring
...
Spring. Radiant gold rays of sunrise.
Sprinkles surprise from dramatic skies.
Swing heartbeat, flowering Spring,
Stir-up breathtaking flowering buds, it wrings and brings.
Plump long-eared, cot...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, spring,
Form: Rhyme
FIVE HAIKU
...1
sunflowers ring
teenagers ChatGPT
Sapphic know-how
2
her décolleté blouse
and see-through saree—
curve’s vanity
3
a curled snake
with fangs ready to poison
love’s narrow passage
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, beauty, nature, relationship, vanity,
Form: Haiku
Blue
...I do not like the color blue
But blue loves me
It wrings me out
Flat to dry
And to feel
And to cry
I do not like the color blue
But it enjoys my company
And the bus passes by
But I a...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, angst, anxiety, blue, depression,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Deprived
...The sun tugs young hours,
Wrings the day. Flowers spring,
Pupils play,
Waitlessness on one youngling.
Longing eyes cashed the calendar,
But father’s clock ticks.
Abysmal second...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, age, child, father son,
Form: Rhyme
The Field
...Summer resplendent sun glowing
in the photosynthesis of viridescent grass.
Waving blades like long fingers flowing,
the sudden sighing gusts come and pass.
The field lives palpable in the anamn...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, beautiful, flower, nature, peace,
Form: Pastoral
The Parliament of Freud
...The Parliament of Freud
In youth the infernal triad posture and prance
Like the kindergarten of the lower house;
Bit players on the eternal stage of life,
Pawns in the cosmic joust of evolution...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, analogy, irony, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Going My Way
...thick mist …
breath of dusk …
bearing its own tales
the yellow bricks wind away
swallowed by the brume
fallow footprints, long since faded
but I cared not to trace them anyway ...
vacant sou...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, allegory,
Form: Free verse
You'll Never Be Loved Again
...Remember that kid who followed you around
Or sometimes led you by the hand?
Who kept you up nights with impossible questions
About mysteries that no one can understand?
Then one day, he up and...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, funeral, goodbye, heart, i
Form: Ballad
Translation of Si La Vie Demande Ca By the Groupe Native
...Translated: Si la vie demande ça by Laura and Chris Mayne by T. Wignesan.
If Life would not wish it otherwise
[Note: The two sister French Caribbean-Martinique Black “Blues” Swan : Laura an...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
wrings, 7th grade, french, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Related Poems