Crescent moon to leave 9 March 2021
Wolves hurry across the landscapes fiery crops burning high Bosom utters not a sigh crossing through the flames Horses dive through etheric lanes shaking manes hooves thunder The moonlit sights a wonder etched into our hearts Two to grieve My breast torn did heave coils cleft none bereft They ask me now in pieces crescent moon to leave Reading of the poem:
Messiah Project - Favorite
A goodbye to royalty 20 November 2020
Dwindling spot of light sinking in the skies Ebb of the sun’s rays Wane moon rises high Dribble of silver oozing a stream runs through night Reflux of the breeze Bubbles of air in river Flow of the current Three weave the stories Their fingers points of flux gush with oncoming rush The stars now retreat The winds drop on rising tides The throngs flood the gates Drift in the bees’ hive A goodbye to royalty stages in decay Reading of the poem:
Azam Ali - Ritual
Written in the context of Ronovan Writes weekly Haiku challenge using the words “ebb” “flow” and their synonyms. For rules and other contributions, follow this link https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/11/16/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-332-ebb-flow/
The dust had settled
20 October 2020
Landscapes gyrating
Moon a backdrop of ashes
the Earth spun onwards
The soot filled the sky
fragments disintegrating
the ground split in flakes
Dirt strewn everywhere
the flowers lost to the weed
battles in gardens
Tea estates littered
cinders from the teeming pit
Magmatic plates moved
Soil’s upheaval
The hills turned into mountains;
valleys disappeared
Churning sand of time
Gradual recovery
the dust had settled
Reading of the poem:
Written in the context of Ronovan writes weekly Haiku challenge using the words “Dust”, “Weed” and their synonyms. Rules and other contributions available here: https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/10/19/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-328-dust-weed/
Massive Attack – The Spoils ft. Hope Sandoval
The waters flowed calm
1 October 2020
The elements raged
Pelting rain tore at my cheeks
The storm’s pace quickened
A raven called hoarse
a mild reminder of death
beak lost in twister
Rising in the skies
Gusts of wind shook free my frame
I recounted time
A single line drawn
across my heaving chest’s throb
The tempest, silenced
Soothing thoughts surfaced
As hurricane receded
into oblivion
The waters flowed calm
Monsoon surge a memory
Its downpour wasted
Reading of the poem:
Amber Mark – Monsoon (Official Video) ft. Mia Mark
Written in the context of Ronovan writes weekly Haiku challenge using the words “Calm”, “Storm” and their synonyms. Rules and other contributions available here https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/28/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-325-calm-storm/
Words interrupted
20 September 2020
Folding unfolding
myriads of images strewn
Memory a lark
Beams of crescent moon
tugged slow at my lips’ corners
A nightingale sang
Words interrupted
stilled my heart in deep silence
like water it flowed
Reading of the poem:
Dance Me To The End Of Love – Francis Goya
I yearn for your untouched skin
29 July 2020
I want to seep into your bones
like the chill of a winter night
I yearn for your untouched skin
its shadows now forever closed to me
like a book of secret pleasures
stowed away in a convent of nuns
With the yearning of a lifetime
I haul myself through summer
burdened by the winter’s pull
It hangs like dead leaves
fallen from a tree
where spring had once made its way
The fruit now lays barren untouched
like the skin of dead virgins
stopped in their tracks by an unknown war
their unseeing eyes swallowed
by the onslaught of darkness
I yearn for your untouched skin
Its light now a pale moon
rising in the midst of the hollow night
where only the waterhen cry
in a place I now call home
where the seagulls laugh no more
Reading of the poem:
Flam Monsoon Buddha Bar
In love we gathered
7 April 2020
The garden silent
The rose bush alit by thorns
Featured stems thorn birds
Wisteria clung
Otherworldly shapes of grapes
Under silver moon
Peace within our hearts
Moonlight rising in our souls
In love we gathered
Reading of the poem:
Lamb – Gabriel (Official Video)
Lamb – Gorecki
Lamb – Heaven
Music in soul played along
7 March 2020
Planets surrounded his slight frame
The moon shaped his glory
A shadow aloof with no name
In him untold story
I breathed upon him melodies
Danced entranced for his eyes
All efforts spent for him in ease
Enticed his very sighs
Desire got him to his feet
Throb in heart felt so strong
With tenderness skipping a beat
Music in soul played along
Reading of the poem:
Enigma – Smell of Desire
Carried by the breeze
6 November 2018
Whisper secret tones
Cast again veil of darkness
End wayward duress
Relinquish the day
Shine moon over the sun’s glare
Lessen light to bear
Chant the night to me
In soft-spoken melodies
Carried by the breeze
Reading of the poem:
The message – Still Corners
Shadows in my eyes
20 October 2018
Battlefields anew
Conqueror and conquered writhe
Scars only outcome
Moonlight rises pale
Extinguished now the sorrow
A new song finds heart
The light falls on brow
A quiver on my eyelid
Shadows in my eyes
Reading of the poem:
To the Moon and back – Savage Garden