DE-myth-FIED

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Achievement, Against all odds, Broken dreams, Butterfly from a cocoon, Coming out a winner, Defiance, Dreams, Emergence, Fiery Dragon, Getting one's way, In a world of stereotypes, Living one's dreams, Mythology, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Originality, Showing "others" wrong, Struggle, Success from failure, Survival, Unbecoming a stereotype

Image credits: Butterfly image by Iviforever@DA; Eggs image by punkcheerleader@DA; superimposition and other editing by me

Under the old bridge
where broken dreams hibernate
with moss growing over
and a drying river limping by,
is a dragon being spawned
– ready to spew fire
at the first foot
that tries to trample it-
It feeds on
the same broken dreams,
growing stronger
with every passing moment
waiting to unleash itself
on the vacant eyes
that saw through it
and refused to believe
in its fiery existence

Once a laughing-stock,
it’ll now bemock the fatuous vanity,
thrash the crazed absurdity
and mark its territory
under the same old bridge
of a stereotypical world…

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**Posted for the amazing One Shot Wednesday (Week 54) – a place where poets find comfort… Check it out, relax.. and have fun! **

Chaser of reminiscences

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Analogy, Arts, Bygones, Clutching at old dreams, Dream chaser, Living in the past, Metaphor, Mirage, New York City, Not letting go of the past, Oasis, Oasis versus Mirage, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Running after broken dreams, Unfulfilled, West Village

I saw this artwork on a sidewalk in West Village, NYC.. I loved it and simply HAD TO click it!

Wading in marshy shallow pools
of misery
Like a lotus with baby skin petals
of white
He tries to hold colored droplets
of memory
In the craving soft hollow
of his palm
While they slip into dark chambers
of fate
And he’s left by himself in deserts
of time…

In billowy gusts that erased his castles
of sand
He thought he’d seen the flushing greens
of an oasis
While they were only the fading blurs
of a mirage…

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**Posted for the Onederful Shot Wednesday (Week 53) – it’s the ONE place for amazing poetry!! So link in, read along, and have some great time!! **

Singularly enigmatic

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Analogy, Contradictory, Different sides of anyone, Lady, Lover, Luna, Maiden, Metaphorical, Moon, Most eligible maiden, Multifaceted, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Phases, Phases of the moon, Relationship, Sides to a woman, Woman

Image credits: riamali@DeviantArt

Sometimes a mercurial drop
In an ebony ocean of fireflies
Sometimes a saucerful of cream
Waiting to be tasted by lovers’ eyes

Sometimes invisible
Too tired to acquiesce to a whim
Sometimes in full glory
With dazzle flowing over the brim

Sometimes a silver streak
Shying behind a greyzed veil
Sometimes a paper lantern
Throwing off glances yellowy pale

Sometimes a mystery
Abyssal.. in whom we willingly sink
Sometimes an open book
Written with clear magnetic ink

Sometimes an old friend
Guiding you when darkness surrounds
Sometimes a deadly foe
Invoking iniquity in sleeping hounds

Sometimes unreachable
Farthest from every known land
Sometimes in close proximity
Like fire in the cup of my hand

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday – the altar for poets! Offer your poems here… and feel blessed!!  This week, the team @ One Stop Poetry celebrate their FIRST birthday… yes, it’s 52 weeks since the first OSW.. yaaaaaaaaaaayyy! Happy Birthday y’all… and please accept this poem as a little gift from me… 🙂 Love y’all loads!!**

Restricted release

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Controlling one's own mind, Crazy thoughts, Disturbing thoughts, Helter-skelter, In the grasp of something, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Restrained thoughts, Running amok, Tainted freedom, Thoughts breaking free, Thoughts escaping a mind, thoughts in all directions, Tortuous, Trying to control one's own thoughts

The entire background image by kiarawphotography@DeviantArt; The hand image by FragileW@DeviantArt... The superimposition and other color editing by me!!

From the murky cellars
of my punitive mind
have escaped thoughts
breaking loose from every clutch
– unhinged and unchained –

I desperately attempt
to arrest once again
managing only to restrain
their muffled cries
as they pierce through
the insides of my brain
only to resurface
on the waters of reality
and swim hurriedly
to the brink of certainty

All I know is
the harder I try
the louder is their silent cry

In protest as I disown
the jarring effect
of a story gone awry,
it comes back with force
to affect the same cellars
that have now run dry

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**Posted for the 51st week of the EVER-STUNNING One Shot Wednesday – the shrine for poets!! Link in your poem, read some, and simply have a gala time!! 🙂 **

Combustible glory…

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Analogy, Aspects of lack of success, Candle, Candle light, Comparison, Desire, Dream, Every aspect of a candle, Faint inspiration, Flame, Fuel, Glory, Hopelessness, Life, Musings, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry

Image credits: qazinahin@DeviantArt

Your dancing flicker
is like some shrill laugh
Echoing
in the pitted caverns within my mind

Your faint glow
is like a moaning ghost
Mocking
me at my accomplishments now dead

Your intoxicating aroma
is a buttermilk dream
Cascading
down unexplored gorges of my heart

Your seared wick
is that unreachable goal
Taunting
me to feel it while it’s red-hot

Your waxen smoothness
is my warm desire
Evaporating
slowly into a grey nothingness

Your annealed remnants
are my silenced dreams
Struggling
desperately for another vain life

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday (Golden Jubilee week… yaaayyy)!! Seriously, if you are craving for some terrific poetry form the heart, you GOTTA check this place out! You are destined to love it! **

Plagued cogitation

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A mind without an idea, Empty mind, No idea, Numbness, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Plea of a trapped thought, The autobiography of a thought, Thoughtlessness, Trapped idea, UNcreative, What the thought had to say, When a locked thought spoke, Writer's block

Image Credits: videinfradesign@DeviantArt

I
Am
locked
within chambers
of your brilliant mind
I
Am
docked
into the gravel
of a tumultuous kind

I
Feel
paralyzed
by the numbness
of a thoughtless storm
I
Feel
catalyzed
by the inertia
of an unquestioned norm

I
Need
sweet release
from the dungeons
risky and none too porous
I
Need
to appease
the vast greed
of your ways omnivorous

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**Posted for this week’s One Shot Wednesday – Week 48… It’s the place where any poet should be!! Check it out and ENJOY!! **

Droplets of Crystal Ink

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Calm, Colored aura, Coming to rest, Finding peace in chaos, Free from clanging noise, Ink splatter, Lilting tunes of peaceful music, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Peace, Pollution-free, Silence, Tumult

Image credits: heart_sc @ DeviantArt

A syllable calm
Like oceans in your palm
Spelling tranquil
From life’s chaotic quill

It left in immense fury
in tiny beads of bold red

Spraying peace
Like a blanket of fleece
Quiet splatter
On soul’s bronzed platter

It hung low in mid-air
as if in deep grey thought

A serene blot
In an awkward spot
Resting placid
On brown papered acid

It fell on a wall of hope
purple in its efforts to cling

Soothed again
From a tortuous rain
Absorbed in lull
By mind’s robust hull

It gave in to its own will
now sitting proud in navy blue

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**Posting this poem at One Shot Wednesday (week 47)… This is THE place for some amazing poetry, peeps! Take a peek, and stay stunned!! 🙂 **

Eternity of a moment

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Cosmic, Eternal, Everlasting, Longing, Love, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Patience, True love, Undying love, Waiting, Yearning

Image credits: amiens@DeviantArt

Ten aeons
Nine dreams
Eight notes
Seven seas
Six degrees
Five senses
Four knocks
Three sighs
Two hearts
But only one breath
To say I love you…

And while a shy moonbeam
caresses my windowsill,
I am still lying in wait
for that one breath
from your lips
meant only
for my
skin

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**Written for One Shot Wednesday (week 46)… Check out this wonderland of poetry… and ENJOY!!! 🙂 **

***Oh, and only a few minutes back, I realized that this happens to be my 200th poem posted here … yaaayy!! And in an odd sorta way, this poem seems kinda appropriate for the “occasion”… lolz  ***

Her fierce stride

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An open mind, Carefree, Drenched, Enjoying, Feeling of freedom, Free spirited, Freedom, Happy, Harmless rains, Hopeful woman, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Rain, Soaking wet, Unattached, Unbound, Unchained, Unperturbed

Image credits: chichaboo@DeviantArt

Playful
That whip flying from her feet
lashing at strange empty faces,
She moved on
undaunted
by the impending dark cloud

Unpretentious
The mahogany dyed odd strands
tickling at her naked smooth nape ,
She moved on
swaying
to the muted symphony in the air

Relentless
Those torrential bursts of rain
pounding against the tip of her nose,
She moved on
accompanied
by a quaint umbrella of hope

Frivolous
That soaked little paisley dress
clinging to her sun kissed skin,
She moved on
mesmerized
by her sapphire lined horizons

She’s still marching
Free-spirited
and free…

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday (week 45)! Check out this amazing galaxy of wonderful poetry, link in your poem…and simply relish it all! 🙂 **

Tough weakeners

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Bookstains Poetry Challenge, Cherished, Chocolates, Clouds, Cool breezes, Echostains, Eyelashes, Favorite things, I love!, List, Music, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop, Poetry, Poetry Potluck Week 38, Salted caramel hot chocolate, Sound of music, Too hard to resist, Treasures, Tune, What I can die for, What I like, What I live for, Writing

Image credits: "My Favorite Things" by ashesoffire00, and "Favorite Things" by phoenix_karenee @ DeviantArt... Superimposition of the images and the cloud effect was later done by yours truly...

White butter clouds
hanging oh so playfully
From silver chords
wound ’round sky’s own old pulley
Azure heavens
crisp and pure as can be
Kissed and nudged
by weightless zephyrs on sea

Caramel swirls
of a sweet salted delight
Set off alarms,
sizzle and make me feel light
Milk chocolate layers
that melt on my tongue
From moody
dungeons back now I have sprung

Voice so rich
like deep bass amidst clamor
Eyes that pierce
right through my heart’s hard armor
Dense shadows
of lashes dark, curled and long
And trembling
transparent like some frail song

If I can do
I sure will do
All that’s in my power…
To blow a few bubbles and indulge myself
In this warm sinful shower…

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**I had originally written this poem a couple of weeks back, but had never gotten around to posting it… But today, I happened to see Lynda’s (aka Echostains) fantastic Poetry Challenge @ Bookstains, and I simply HAD to post it in response to the challenge (with a lil bit of editing so as to fit the challenge theme/criteria)… Gosh!! This was a whole lot of fun!!! Check out the challenge yourself, and play along… I bet you’ll LOVE it!! Oh… and try “singing” this poem to the tune of “These are a few of my favorite things” from Sound Of Music … :D**

***And what better place to put up this poem than One Shot Wednesday (week 44)! Maaaannn…. I REALLY missed y’all, my favorite One-Shot-Stars! Well well… now I am back… and all set to read too!! 🙂 See y’all soooon!!***

****And I am now adding this to Poetry Potluck (week 38) as well since I could not come up with anything more suited for the theme (Inspired by a song) 🙂 ****

Winged Trail

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Butterfly, Chasing a butterfly, Dream, Dream catcher, Following a dream, Following freedom, For love, Freedom, In search of love, Love, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Wild, Wilderness

Image credits: maine18-d2ze229@DeviantArt

They had told me
I would find you in the woods
Under a moonlit sky
Making love to nature

They had told me
I would see you in person
Soaking in the sun
While dancing in wild ecstasy

I wanted to find you
I wanted to see you
To feel you

And when the butterfly glided by…

In its wings
I saw the color of your smile
In its pause
I heard the music of your touch
In its flight
I felt the span of your love

So I madly ran after it
While it knew nothing of me
I knew it would bring me to you
And I would catch you
…red-handed…

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday (Week 39)… Check it out, and indulge in some amazing Poetry! **

***CONGRATULATIONS, One Stop Poetry Team on winning the Shorty Award (Art)… You guys TOTALLY DESERVE IT!! Yaaaaayyyy!!! Hope y’all had an awesome time in NYC!! I wish I could meet y’all… ***

****Just wanted to let you know that I am in Bombay, and trying to “absorb” the change in tempertaure…it’s 90F here… LOLZ!! Will be putting up some pictures soooonnn… ****

Infinitude of ennui

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Blank mind, Empty mind, Lack of creativity, Lack of imagination, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Thoughtless, Thoughtlessness, Unimaginative, Uninspired, Wordless, Writer's block

Image credits: therob70@DeviantArt

Drained
Of the last drop of moisture
Strained
Devoid of any psychic fixture
Constrained
By an invisible boundary
Restrained
By an intangible quandary
Arid
Till my pores ooze dust
Turbid
By the viscosity of disgust
Pallid
By the fading act of clues
Languid
As some fatigued recluse

Such is my mind
When it’s full of vacuum,
Tearing at wordless carcasses
That it attempts to exhume
While hoping to catch a whiff
Of an idea’s faint perfume

Oh dear sweet words,
I beg you to quit your rage
And like gently soaring birds
Sweep into my mind’s cage
I promise to free you in herds
While your depth I try to gauge

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*I wanted to write something… anything!! But somehow, nothing seemed to move my thinking fingers… So I figured I should leverage this nothingness… and eventually ended up writing my thought on thoughtlessness and those most dreaded days ruled by lack of imagination/inspiration :).. *

**Posted for the amazing One Shot Wednesday(Week 37)… Check out the wonderful poets/poetry there.. link in, and ENJOY!**

Vulnerable visage

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Bound, Chained, Dark, Distortion, Fiction, Imagination, Lack of freedom, Mirror, Multiple reflections, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Reflection, Regret, Rumination, Search for oneself, Tied in, Trapped in a mirror, Visage, Vision-chained, Void

Image credits: Mon artifice@DeviantArt

I stood there
Screaming
Dreaming
Trapped in my own reflection
Or was I the mirror instead?
Was I to get some response?
Or was this just a sconce?

I felt surrounded
Alone
Forlorn
Waiting for a reaction
From any “one” distorted figure
But all they did was stare
Their all-mercurial glare

I punched hard
Wildly
Blindly
So hard, my shadowed arm hurt
But the glass didn’t shatter
Nor could I step over my bound
Or beyond…

I am still gazing
Wide-eyed
Mystified
At the form that made me
But all I see is a void
A void that hears nothing
Feels nothing…Is nothing…

A void
To avoid…

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday (week 36) – THE place for poetry! Check it out, and indulge in the sublime bliss… **

PS: I have no idea why my fictional pieces are turning out so dark these days (maybe it’s due to excess watching of Criminal Minds – the TV series :))… I hope my writing lightens up… soon! 🙂

High stakes

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Actions and thought process, Betting, Chance, Gamble, High stakes, Life, Not so random, Numbers, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Random, Reason, Risk, Roulette wheel, Shape poetry, Stakes

Image credits: Roulette by Yoane@DeviantArt

And as it rolls…
This green-and-red sly wheel
Spinning crazily, making you spin along
Racing thoughts scattered all around the place
Now c’mon! Pick your number… place your bets
Was it a guess? Some mess? Or signs of deep distress?
Eyes dart to and fro, beads of sweat forming your crown
“Higher!” A voice screams. Was it you? You have a doubt
Impatiently, you throw in all your chips! It’s all or none!!
Now the wait. When will the wheel stop rotating? When?
Did it just pause at eighteen? No. Maybe. Oh yes it did
Now if only life had been all that straightforward
And the ball would always find the right stop
On those numbers you chose to wager on
But alas that’s not how it works
(sigh) Oh damn!!

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**I had written this a few weeks back, after watching Ocean’s 12 (or was it 13? Not too sure which one)… And sharing with One Shot Wednesday today… Do check ’em out, and savor the lovely poetry there…and if you have a poem you want to share, do it!! NOW! :)**

Amber drizzle

Tags

Amber, Autumn, Beauty, Caressing, Fall, Leaves, Nature, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Orange, Red, Smooth, Tomb

Image Credits: Miss-Deathwish@DeviantArt

Umpteen shades of red and yellow
Floating in the dusky air
Like a pungent love affair
Sometimes hot, sometimes mellow

Maple leaves kept flying by
Crossing hills and giggling streams
Pushed ahead by muffled screams
Of winds rushing low and high

One little leaf painted red
Along with his soaring friend
Singing songs in soft ascent
Danced along, moving ahead

Together climbing tall mountains
And kissing peaks rising high
They waved greetings to the sky
And played by gushing fountains

They chased pretty butterflies
And floated by river banks
Cooing to the breeze their thanks
With trees waving their high-fives

Finally, they came to rest
Upon a tomb small but calm
And shedding a tear like a psalm
Hoping that they lived their best

 

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**Had drafted this poem in the Fall of 2010, but finally posting it today for One Shot Wednesday :)… THE place for poetic awesomeness! **

Grim promenade

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Alone, Beaten, Dreadful, Dumped, Heartbreak, Helpless, Loneliness, Lost, Love lost, Miserable, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Sad, Sneered at, Uncomplaining

Image Credits: thegirlinthebigbox@DeviantArt.com

Ready to crumble
Yet never a grumble
She greets passers-by
That cast at her a sigh
Vacant smile on her face
Chewing on a patch of lace
She strays yet another mile
Love to her is now just bile

Heart crushed
Emotions slushed
Her spirit battered
And misery splattered
Feelings bottled inside
In vain she tries to hide
And courses empty streets
Playing at weathered pleats

Under a happy veil
Lies her skin too pale
The eyes mascara caked
Cheeks and forehead raked
Long gashes running through
Whose depth in time just grew
Her silken hair turned to matte
Flat and limp like some soiled mat

She now awaits a change in trend
Where the road ahead’ll say ‘Dead End’

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**Written for One Shot Wednesday… A place where poets meet and share… check it out and indulge in the awesomeness! 🙂 **

Behind a screen

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Chat, Chatting with a college friend, Computer, Crush, Fiction, Freeverse, IM, Imagination, Internet, Laptop, Light and easy, Long lost friends, One Shot Wednesday, Puppy love, Technology, Too close to imagine, Virtual reality, Web, World wide wonder, WWW

Image credits: Daemon GFXvoid@DeviantArt.com

A small ‘hi’
popped on a window
Set my heart racing
skipping a few beats
every now and then
Melted all worries
Sent me into space
…and back too…
Got my head spinning
(not the space ride,
but that ‘hi’)
Formed a glazed sheet
over my round eyes
Made my fingers go numb
So numb… that…
“You there?”
almost went unnoticed

But it didn’t!
And I jumped back
to reality…
to being me..
to the blinking cursor…
to that glowing screen…
to him…
And feverishly,
with mock sternness,
I fumbled,
“Yup.. right here..
Wassup?”

Maybe he sensed my madness
Or maybe he didn’t…
Time will tell
Meanwhile,
I’ll just smile…
(sigh)
And dream about him,
his tall dark silhouette
smiling back at me
from the other side
of virtual reality…

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday! Do check this out and indulge in the awesome world of poetry…**

This cursed boon

Tags

Backfire, Boon, Curse, Inutile, Not put to good use, One Shot Wednesday, Useless, Virtue, Wasted

Image Credits: butterfly36rs@DeviantArt.com

What good is a novel idea
pregnant with bright promises,
if it fails to unravel
on reality’s premisses?

What good is a wakeful mind
open to dreams and possibility,
if it’s stomped on and crammed
with waste and every triviality?

What good is all of richness
material or not so tangible,
if it denies its owner
a smile which is indelible

What good is our life
abundant with bits of substance,
if we cannot add an iota
of meaning to our existence?

After all…

What good is a resealable bag
pledging to lock in flavor,
if it is zipped tight shut
with foul air hard to savor?

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday… You must check it out to indulge in the amazing world of poetry and art… **

Surrender: A self-fulfilling prophecy

Tags

Combating fear, Fear, Losing, Lost, No fight, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Surrender, Timid, Yielding to one's fears

Image Credits: 54ka@DeviantArt.com

The fear of rejection
Keeps him from loving
So he goes on shoving
Aside care and affection

Only to further char
The depth of his burning scar

The fear of a downfall
Keeps him from soaring
Flying or exploring
E’er leaving him to crawl

Only to further slide
Into dungeons where souls died

The fear of shadows dark
Keeps him from the lights
And much away from nights
Lest ghosts on him embark

Only to further walk
Down paths of tumult and shock

The fear of chaos dense
Keeps him from life’s fun
He’s always on the run
Forever foul and tense

Only to further scurry
Towards fields of pain and worry

The fear of all his fears
Keeps him from trying
For he’s too busy denying
The reason for his tears

Only to further flee
And sink in his own enraged sea

 

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday – Week 30… To open a chest of poetic treasures, do check this out! **

A flurry affair…

Tags

Beautiful, Eyelashes, Love, Love affair, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Romantic, Snow crystals, Snowflake, Sudden, Winter

Image Credits: le_mags@DeviantArt.com

T’was just another eve
A shadowy mesh grew on this sieve
The sun now eased its glow
And it soon began to snow

Then on a cobblestone street
As I walked my lazy feet…

With your platinum shine
Oh so crystalline
You drifted up to me
Just so I could see
You glided on my lash
Swung, then made a dash
And pecked me on my nose
I turned an icy rose
As if to say I love you
A soft kiss to me you blew
Very soon my heart you felt
In its warmth, you had to melt

And in the blink of an eye
I watched you dissolve and drip by
But your spirit still stays alive
And in it, I hope to dive

This evening that made me heave
Was certainly not just another eve

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**Posted for One Shot Wednesday (Week 29)… For some phenomenal poetry, you’ve GOTTA visit them!! **

***I would also like to take this opportunity to announce that one of my short poems (Manic) has been featured in the January 2011 issue of Four and Twenty Poetry.. Yaaayyy!! I am very excited about this, and I would LOVE for you to visit the site (and open the pdf file and read my poem :))! Thanks for your love and support… I truly appreciate it!! ***

Rhetorically possessive…

Tags

Belonging, Doubts, Mine, Not mine, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Ownership, Possession, Questions, Rhetoric, Skeptic

Image Credits - DeviantArt.com

Can I say
My God is mine
When all I see
Is me being jostled
To the end of his line?

Can I say
Your religion is mine
When here I am
Sitting cooped and closed
Building my own mental shrine?

Can I say
My land is mine
When I know too well
That I have to renew the lease
When it ages beyond ninety-nine?

Can I say
Your heart is mine
When it safely resides
In the deepest nook of me
And yet I long for it and pine?

Can I say
My soul is mine
When I look for it
And find, instead of me,
Your face stare back and whine?

Can I… ?

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**Posted for this week’s One Shot Wednesday (week 28)… Do check out this amazing place full of very fine poetry!!! **

Mooniacal

Tags

Beautiful, Charming, Enticing, Love, Luna, Moon, Obsessed, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry

Image Credits - DeviantArt.com

Hiding and showing
While craftily glowing
‘Tween soft mists blowing
You’ve a smile all too knowing
~*~
Humble and coy
Making souls buoy
With an impish decoy
You bestow a mystic joy
~*~
Alluring and urging
And well-timed emerging
You have our pulses surging
In love you leave us submerging
~*~
Glossy and divine
In the sky you shine
Making us yen and pine
With a million stars in line
~*~
Rising and dancing
While slowly advancing
With your looks entrancing
You seize two hearts romancing
~*~
Lucid and bright
In an inky skylight
You are a sure delight
On a dark mirthless night
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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**This moonie poem is posted for One Shot Wednesday, (coincidentally) hosted this week by our lovely  Moondustwriter… Do check out this week’s OSW and indulge in all the poetic goodness!!! 🙂 **

Caution: Anguish ahead!

Tags

Caution, Cold hearted, Dangerous, Love, Mixed emotion, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Relationship, Side effects, Warning, Week 26

Image Credits: CrackBag @ DeviantArt.com

Please stay away from me
I can hurt your feelings
…real bad…
I can play with your mind
like it were a yo-yo
I can make you do things
that’ll make you plead and cry
I can crumple you like paper
and toss you aeons away

Please don’t come any closer
I am a ball of fire
ready to scorch you down
at the slightest fuel you provide
I am a billowing storm
of clouds you can’t see through
no matter how hard you try
I am a wall of ice
stinging, biting into your skin
and refusing to melt
I am an ocean of darkness
abysmal in its form
whose end you cannot reach

Please maintain your distance
I did what I could
in your best interest
to keep you from me
I tried all I could
to coerce you into
building hatred for me
I managed all I could
in burning all bridges
ever built between you and me

If now you get burned
or destroyed or drowned
Please don’t ever dare
to tell me I didn’t warn

I’ll just laugh my wildest laughs
Cast at you my flaming look
Lift you by your stringy throat
Watch you blink your bulgy eyes
And say, “I told you so…”
Then… I’ll just let you go…

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**Submitted for One Shot Wednesday (the last one for the year 2010)… Do check out the stunning collection of poems here… **

A drop into vacuum

Tags

Abyss, Collaboration, Dark, DeadPoet, Death, Kavisionz, Lost, Misery, Numb, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Sadness, Shadows, Sinking, Unfeeling, Vacuum

Image Credits: Iardacil @ DeviantArt.com

Gaunt shadows lurking all about
With hollowed eyes, they sought me out
I drank my fear, drifting afloat
Time and again, I clutched my throat
Their silent whispers filled my ears
Louder than shrieks, they seemed to pierce

I found myself submerged beneath the surface,
Unable to breathe in the midst of this race.
The voices echoed through the pools of silence,
Darkness fell, bringing solace in the midst of violence.
For there was only chaos running through this mind,
As the shadows grew bolder, so cruel and unkind.

Amid dark souls, I lost my way
Soon began to stagger and sway
Drapes of doom had started to fall
And no one here answered my call
Buried in dread, and drenched in pain
I groped for hope, but all in vain

The shadows loomed over the will of my mind,
Kneeling down to fears my heart could never find.
Dread hung heavy in the sweetened air,
I found myself drawn to the Devil’s lair.
For darkness had found and corrupted my heart,
Taking with it all that the shadows could tear apart.

My mind went numb, and senses failed
All life now drained, my skin had paled
The spark had gone from my eyes gray
As if dark clouds stole light from day
I walked towards that gaping hole
Without a care, without a soul

Down, down the rabbit hole, I found myself falling,
Far in the distance, I could hear dark voices calling.
Unanswered questions raced through the fathoms of my head,
Ringing through the silence, all these answers that I dread.
These shadows always lurking in the corners of space and time,
Bringing back distant memories of the basest of my crimes.

Slowly drowning in floods of hate
Longing for salvation though it’s too late
I step into this cold abyss
I know not why I feel such bliss
A happy tear, a sated smile
As I walk with open hands to embrace my exile

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**This is a poem which I wrote in collaboration with DeadPoet88… We built upon each others’ stanzas (me the first, she the second, and so on). We wrote the 7th (last) stanza one line at a time (alternately). And somehow, at the end of the poem, we felt as if we had written the entire poem ourselves! It was a whole lot of fun and a great experience writing it with her… Thanks a ton, DeadPoet88, for agreeing to write this poem with me… xoxox**

***Posted for One Shot Wednesday!! Please check it out to read the fantastic offerings made here… ***

That state of oblivion…

Tags

Assurance, Certainty, Dream, Eyes speak, Forever, Knowing, Love, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Past Present and Future, Reality, Surety

Image Credits: Pulchra @ DeviantArt.com

I dream of days gone by
When moments would just fly
Its charm I won’t deny
And gravity I can’t defy
From the corner of your eye
You’d watch me touch the sky
I’d raise a hue and cry
But you wouldn’t breathe a sigh
There was no need to lie
We were so young and shy
You loved me… My oh my!
And on this, I was high…

In chill airs, you I smell
And all my fears I quell
From quandaries, I rebel
Cuz in my hopes you dwell
Soft chimes of a doorbell
I break out of my shell
In your arms, I revel
Clinging to you like gel
Enchanted by your spell
I hear my insides yell
You love me now as well
From your eyes, I can tell

My mind runs wild and free
And swims about in glee
While buzzing like a bee
And hugging an odd tree
There’s no reason to flee
For in love’s the way to be
I’m on this frenzied spree
And it doesn’t cost a fee
Sweet you are to me
Like candy or honey
In your deep eyes I see
You’ll still keep loving me

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**Posted for this week’s One Shot Wednesday hosted by Claudia… Please do check out the lovely poetic offerings made here… It’s a certain delight! **