A Moment Off | Poetry | January 2023
Let me take a moment off To remember the time When I first saw my mother And saw stars blinking in the night sky.
Let me take a moment off To remember the time When I first saw my mother And saw stars blinking in the night sky.
I was wandering on the edges of reality Where it morphed into my imagination So much so that I couldn’t tell them apart It all blended into one patchwork of art Lonely, and feeling deserted, I went on with my life Picking up the pieces of what was left of me That was when Read more…
The mountains reverberate in my body, Sending winds that sweep over the land, In voices hushed and roaring. Magnificent and opulent, They guard me against my own feelings. The rivers course through my veins, Bubbling and frothing waters, In soothing and cadenced waves Defeating the chaotic stress, Washing away the debris of hurt and Read more…
Nostalgia is in the brown half-toothed smile your sister flashes upon you after you buy her the chocolate-chip ice cream instead of the cheaper vanilla. Nostalgia is in the surreptitious smile you catch your mother in, as she stumbles upon an old song that must have rewound the time for her. Nostalgia is the echo Read more…
Change I would, many frames of my life, The picture, I have only one. Drink I could, many cocktails of love, The water is always from you. Climb I might, many mountains of righteousness, The gray fields of our shared mischiefs is where I play. Sing I often, sultry songs of misgivings, Read more…
You make home in the heart of someone who helped mend the one in you. And you hope there is a home in your heart too, where they sit and sip love in the afternoons. You put all the things you love in your new home, rainbows and bougainvilleas; songs that play with time; journals Read more…