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Tej Singh Poem
A Welsh New Year
The night's dark shadow
creeps softly over the sky.
Dark, soft fingers pull slowly at the light,
fully engulfing it into it's dark mass.
The wind whips off the sea.
Snatching and releasing,
pushing and pulling.
Rough and unforgiving.
Wild as our hearts,
beating quickly in the night.
The wooden walls groan in around us.
A ship,
forever docked,
deeply into the cliff.
A yearning spirit hides in anticipation
behind each eye,
quivering in excitement and childish glee.
When finally,
one scuttling figure jumps from the couch
and out the door.
We chase him,
fleeting feet and unruly rain jackets,
across the courtyard and towards the wild sea.
The wind's intensity grows with the seconds.
We stop,
finally,
when we reach the light.
It flashes,
giant and glowing.
The sea roars far below us
and the wind thrashes and screams in our ears.
I feel as if it could lift me off my feet
and carry it as far as it pleased.
Clinging tightly to whoever is closest,
we stand in silent awe.
But it only last one flickering moment,
before we're dashing back
to the warm safety of the indoors.
But when the morning comes,
and all putter around the kitchen,
little fragments of the night still remain.
A crumpled flag of the living room floor.
Muddy shoes scattered
on the cold entranceway.
The quick sprawled footprints in the sand.
And a lone wine-glass of water,
on a disheveled bedside table.
Gentle smiles pass through the house,
and the steady sea beats rhythmically on.
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Tej Singh Poem
Coming Clean
Suppose I was your inner self
the one so determined to fall,
you wake each day with a frown on your face
blaming it on all others after all.
But suppose this person fell from oneself
became a shadow to leave behind,
Could you or would you find happiness
leaving old memories on the sidelines.
Honestly with life so short why take part
in hiding in misery day after day ,
why fold yourself into a crumbled mass
yet crying within of needs deteriorating away.
Tell me how hard do you work
to make others see your pain ,
for maybe they would understand why
if you was trying to be whole once again .
Arms reach out and you slap them away,
makes you once again embracing your pain .
to refuse the help sent your way,
and you refuse again and again.
What is so bad you cant come clean
to find life is what we make it to be,
What is so woven into your mind
where even your shadow has become unkind.
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Tej Singh Poem
My Truth
I am an original
My body, my diary,
my totem temple,
a living portrait
frozen in time.
Black ink flows as fluidly
as the lineage in my vein.
Every line, every curve
roams my ivory plane.
I cannot bow down
nor demur, I have
bared my soul indelibly.
My poetry in flesh.
Needled into skin
__love-erotic therapy.
Pain is my sacrifice
and I will bleed for
my truth.
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Tej Singh Poem
Oh Fear The Ghost Of The Past ( A Sonnet )
Sweet the moon when clouds disguise your glare upon sister Earth
But you haunt her like a phantom that never leaves her side
A constant companion as both of you spin through space and time
To wonder if the solar Sun feels the same ?
Those circling planets that it holds within it's burning hands
With gravities pull he holds so tight, to never loses her memories
So it must be for parted lovers to
Erasing such thoughts that cascade through the soul
Like waterfalls in May, the spring of life, that brings forth rebirth
Preparing souls for summers delights
Through beauty unimaginable to human eyes
Yet in solitude the ghost returns, just as in winter, stifling ones heart
Sorrowful the lonely soul, breaking its spirit into fragments so small
Groaning in cries of anguish and torment along life's rocky road
Though long gone, the footsteps of you linger, to never depart
The winds of change try blow to away those footsteps from once you stood
Not to hear the tone of one's voice in starlings morning sonnet
To flee like a fox to it's den in the darkness of crimson and scarlet
But even in rest when eyes are weary and bones ache from strenuous strain
The image of you remains oh so very real
Where shall one hide from your haunting smile ?
Shall it be in death or highest mountains in the sky ?
Maybe the surface of the deepest ocean ?
Why can you not stay imprisoned in the past, to free the future ?
To look into the mirror, it is only you that the eyes behold
Oh fear The ghost of the past!
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Tej Singh Poem
Tragically
Cold piano keys
Cool and heavy
Beneath my fingertips
Smashing chords
My feeling erupts
Its voice a deep octave
I blame you
I blame me
I waited patiently
The melody picks up
Manically
The chords belt out
Powerfully
It isnt about what we choose
Life demands us
To do things we dont want to do
Pinning us into corners
Where we either live or die
Sometimes you choose life
Because its hard to die
Our hearts scream childish truth
We rely on our minds
Love behaves irrationally
It asks us to love tragically.
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Tej Singh Poem
Ties
Ties
Cat peers through my window,
hazy autumn sky behind.
rooftops slumber
helpless in their elegance.
Patterns from a life far behind.
stamp collections,
meals eaten alone, with others
smiling under cover
of my song.
Overdue library books,
cobwebs swept from corners.
Spider dashes away:
"No, don't kill it!"
What does it all mean?
The raincoats, bad sitcoms,
falling in love.
Dust scattered on an empty sea.
We descend
or rise
free of ties.
Without commutes, vacuums
and unpaid bills.
All this I'm thinking,
as the cat stares.
Wonders why I'm in a cage.
Patters away as I finish my tea
and the day begins.
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