Fishbowl

Hour Six A fish out of water scooped out of the expanse with a net of lies and plunged within a crystalline bowl. Flitting to the surface wherein lies the tease of sustenance and breath held in stagnancy. Feeble attempts to avoid the anglerfish and…

Magnum Opus

Hour Four Outlining plans with graphite tracing the intent- gradients of charcoal delineate from our preconceived form an insult to our potential. Our attempts to take over and mold over the wire mesh construction- half-hearted clay structure unassuming to the crack from the heat of…

The Change Of Heart

Hour Two Rays of sunshine pierce through the fabric of hope like hot daggers searing cauterizing the wounds of winter’s blush melting the ventricles of a heart’s cold season when the chamber doors had closed like an iron fist. A heart that beats with filagree…

Stuck In Traffic

Hour One Boxed in on all sides wrapped in rush like present, waiting…always waiting… to be opened to move forward. Inching my way with the masses at my back other fellow travelers on this expanse of gravel and boiling pavement. Like worms burrowing through soil,…

Odine’s curse

All I did was tuck my honey in He’d wait patiently under the duvet I’d do my face routine Then love’s wind will swing ‘nd sway His co-worker always called late at night I know my baby is a hardworker But doing it till late…

Text Prompt-Poem 20 The Watch Tower

The Fall of Jericho The stone walls date back to 8000bc The walls represent the first military process The walls are at least 13 feet high and is backed by A watch tower at least about 28 feet tall The wall fell after the people…

Text Prompt-Poem 12 Gatherings can be challenging

Gatherings with others Can be challenging especially if you have been rejected Also if you suffer from Anxiety it can be damaging As you don’t want to socialise anymore with friends You sometimes hide away in isolation You have cut off from friends and family…

Image Prompt- Poem 11 Roots

Image Poem -poem 11 Roots Roots can be the rooted in our behaviour Roots cannot but give its utmost flavour Roots develop into branches of aura Twisted and knotted but strong in odour Your roots can speak foundations of armour Your roots can identify and…

Professional Gastropod

professional gastropod   the slug won the half-marathon by a hair’s breadth.   his muscles pumped like pistons, as he escaped each hoe and boot heel.   nearing the finish line amidst a cacophony of cheering, he slid the final mile on a   trail…