Ever uprooted

Ever uprooted

14 January 2024
Courtesy Naomi Novik



Break my back
contour me yellow
Sum me up
Sun me down
Funnel me through the dreamtime
flowing and mellow

Steer me through
madness of the times
where only
my pale rhymes
lift me through the coursing fires
of will that transpires

Ill-suited
midnight owl hooted
Eyes to skies
toes recant
Face and feet on upward slant
Ever uprooted

Reading of the poem:
E M E L - Holm (A Dream) (Official Video)

Screaming out aloud

Screaming out aloud
26 November 2023
Courtesy pinterest.com

Ethereal
construct of machine
my memories
wiped so clean
I grapple with loss of real
arbitrary seal

Man no more
nor woman to see
images
slowly flee
areas of me flouted
through cables routed

Hum through me
I remember times
when my ghost
drummed up rhymes
I walked in a saddened crowd
Screaming out aloud

Reading of the poem:
The Spirit Song - A Nordic Lullaby

All blood same red lace

All blood same red lace
15 October 2023
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Harbinger 
of erased nation
A death toll 
on both sides
leads nowhere as the fear rides
to uneven poll

the clock strikes
unequal death chimes
we surmount
the war crimes
our memory a closed tap
bodies our minds wrap

Live cocoons
shelter vivid thoughts
unwilling
uncaring
we see not what then transpired
as thousands expired

Fed through spoons
weather-beaten words
Flimsy talks
forceful walks 
to the other side of hope
a yearning to cope

Warning call
lost time to recall
regret stitched
intimate
within layers of the brain
lesson to retain

The legs pace
unknown surfaces
riddled lanes
absorb pains
of humanity’s disgrace 
all blood same red lace

Reading of the poem: 
Yael Deckelbaum - Prayer Of The Mothers