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WDINDOY
Why do I not dream of you?
The ocean grows darker, it's calling too deep
But I build a bastion of love in my sleep
So why do I not dream of you?
Why do I not dream of you?
A lawlessness reigns in the unconscious sphere
It whispers of fragments, a sense that you’re near
So why do I not dream of you?
Come, now let me dream of you
Let us run freely in worlds w...
Sunday 3rd December 2023 10:19 pm
Life ‘n’ God ‘n’ Death ‘n’ Stuff
Where on earth (or space) did we come from?
What intrepid seed made us be?
I like the idea of God
But, my mind's eye won't let me see
They say we're all made of stardust
So, perhaps, there lies a clue
Just molecules & atoms congealed
From the old primordial stew
Were we once nebulae or quasars?
Drifting upon solar winds
Dancing to songs of the universe
...Wednesday 29th November 2023 12:27 pm
For Whom
With the consistency of smoke
eventually, our ghostly hands
must let go of this life
We may be thinning and fading
or still strong but cut down
However it’s done
the knot must inevitably untie
The light travelled so far
to dance upon our faces
We're alive, as nature is alive
to be strange or just to be
All that energy must return
into the freezing depths of space
Every smile, ever...
Tuesday 28th November 2023 12:04 pm
Low Winter Son
I kick away the leaves
uncover the carved stones
And reading your names again
I let those feelings flood in
The two of you rest together
laid deep beneath the earth
There’s a tree that grows above you
and here’s me, treading my own winter
Life was in wealth, awhile
but I’ve been chasing that warmth
for three decades now
I’m tired and my body aches
There will be fireworks tonight
...
Thursday 23rd November 2023 3:23 pm
Bold & Silent
I turned the volume down so I could hear you.
Everything is still too loud.
Too many voices, and not the one I needed to hear.
I want to hear.
Mourning that lasted for nine hundred sixty four days.
Salty tears soaked waterlogged greenery.
Droopy head. Droopy leaves.
Pruning a root bound plant
Repot.
Acclamation felt like dormancy
Dormancy was intense
Lef...
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 2:31 am
Dawning
It dawned on me
as the sun rose
and the blood red flowers
reflected my life and my dread
a hemorrhaging of vivacity
animated in the comic book
that is life and death
A seriously humourous tome
in which I am bound
until the conclusion
of the final chapter
when all has been fulfilled.
Thursday 16th November 2023 11:31 am
About Love And All It Is Not
Love is,
replacing the soothing touch of water
with the burn of swirling red.
Love is,
broken glass on the ground,
not being able to differentiate red from red.
Love is,
freely seeking comfort in another’s bed,
knowing your own will be empty anyway.
Love is,
conceiving a child,
in the hopes it will turn your lives around.
Love is,
heated argu...
Sunday 29th October 2023 8:58 pm
To Love A Fire (Is To Burn Brightly By Its Side)
The crackling of the fire lures me closer.
Meat sizzles and shrinks under the sheer heat of it.
A fire full of fury, hissing and spitting,
at anyone who dares to move closer.
It attacks my senses; the smell of burning flesh, the feel of warmth.
I can’t move away.
I’m enchanted, trapped, devoted,
to keeping the flames flickering.
To feel its warmth infiltrating my ...
Tuesday 24th October 2023 12:43 pm
violent death
beyond sunsets of tangerine
past seas of aquamarine
crimson pouring out of me
I face my final color scheme
darkness comes
Thursday 19th October 2023 4:36 am
Almost There (Where?)
Is it the light
At the end
Of the road
That I perceive
Or is it simply
Heaven's ethereal glow
That shines upon me?
An end it is,
No matter what form,
A means to end,
So I go on.
Friday 13th October 2023 7:28 pm
Constancy and Humility
Life can recognise
Caste, religion and colour-
A disease of three symptoms:
Caste is engaged with skirmish,
Religion flares up with sudden
Intensity of furiousness, and
Colour creates dissociation.
None but DEATH is constant:
He never plays the role of an actor,
He never does judge on caste, religion And colour:
He believes that there is no gap
Between the palace and the hut.
Saturday 7th October 2023 9:20 am
To Love Is To Die
A love so fierce,
has taken ahold of me,
that ‘I’ is no more.
My form, my soul,
is now entangled with hers.
Where do I end and where does she begin?
I now only exist,
as an extension of her.
When my name leaves mouths,
I pray for it to always
be accompanied by hers.
Whenever she is in my vicinity,
it feels as if I could ascend into infinity.
To love her,
...Sunday 17th September 2023 12:36 pm
Whispers From Death
Dew-covered grass
covers my naked skin.
Flowers sprout
from where I have been.
Day and Night
hastily clock in.
Running to their positions,
preparing their respective scene.
Not that I can see.
The layer of dirt that separates
from what is and has been,
no longer that thin.
Breathe Death in,
for it is I who nurtures the earth
who give...
Friday 8th September 2023 8:21 pm
Love Is A Violence
And if you must pierce my heart
With a dagger so sharp,
Caress with it my cheek
After you've retrieved it.
Paint my face soft,
With the violence of your love.
It is for you who my heart beats for,
Thus it is by your hands that it should stop.
May the wind blow you
My final breath to.
Thursday 31st August 2023 12:48 pm
There were fireworks tonight
There were fireworks tonight
And each time there was a spark
It reminded me of your heartbeat
You're still lighting up my life everyday
Every breath I take is harder than the previous
My life is so incomplete without you
It feels like I'm breathing underwater
Where oxygen is scarce until you come back up
I would do anything to have you here with me
Life seems to be getting harder as ...
Tuesday 8th August 2023 4:54 pm
Trapped in this
claustrophobic body
as it ages
plummeting towards inevitability
all youthful thoughts
of immortality thrown aside
by reality
where did life go
when did life go
a speeding train that makes me move more slowly
the longer the journey takes
sometimes at a snail’s pace
towards a final stop where I get off
and out
and gone
forever
Monday 24th July 2023 4:34 pm
Sunsets
Erecting her easel
at the foot of the boardwalk
she mixes the paint
a hell-fire pink and crimson
and dips her brush to begin…
She paints
the end of all things
a voice lost to the fractured mind
the final moments of a life
a hand slipping away
She paints
farewell hospital conversations
her father’s beard as a cloud
she thins the blue paint with her tears
She colours in his eyes
L...
Wednesday 21st June 2023 3:51 pm
Last breath
A culmination of my mortal wealth
The final veto of this body’s health
On this concluding course, I’ll steer the helm,
Towards divine perfection in heaven's realm.
Pleasures once played forcibly reduced in speed.
Aches and pains scream, “You fool, take heed.”
Sat alone at ease, awaiting death’s forecast.
Whilst silently reminiscing about a time long past.
No time now for re...
Thursday 4th May 2023 8:05 am
Ne'er Dance
“I don’t dance,”
I told everyone who asked.
“I’m terrible at it.”
So I didn’t.
I sat on the sidelines and watched.
I used to dance.
I didn’t question it when my feet
Would tap of their own accord and my body
Would wiggle around with delight.
“I was young and I was stupid.
It was embarrassing.”
I’m still young and I’m still stupid.
I’m still terribl...
Tuesday 18th April 2023 2:49 am
Vanquisher of Death
One day Heaven summoned my name,
And I went fly away,
Confronting with DEATH I paused
For a while ;
Horrors of it closely I felt,
I began to trembling
As DEATH unfolded its black
Face:
I was unsure of what to say,
Still I dared to ask:
"O DEATH, why are you so brutal?
Why do you snatch the beloved one?"
Upon hearing my voice, He
Roared like the lion kneading me
And I tried
To loose ...
Tuesday 4th April 2023 5:11 pm
Vanquisher of Death
One day Heaven summoned my name,
And I went fly away,
Confronting with DEATH I paused
For a while ;
Horrors of it closely I felt,
I began to trembling
As DEATH unfolded its black
Face:
I was unsure of what to say,
Still I dared to ask:
"O DEATH, why are you so brutal?
Why do you snatch the beloved one?"
Upon hearing my voice, He
Roared like the lion kneading me
And I tried
To loose ...
Tuesday 4th April 2023 5:11 pm
Dead Rat
Flies gathered around its tiny body,
Its feet turned toward the sky
As if preparing to continue the
Never-ending rat race among the clouds.
People walk past and turn up their noses.
The only good rat is a
Dead rat, but why?
They exist just like us, their little hearts
Pumping just as fast as ours.
They scurry from place to place, ducking between
Giant meta...
Thursday 23rd March 2023 9:07 pm
Death Of Joy
Every time you look at me
You make me shiver
Not in joy but in pain
Like suicidal impulses
Before the ages of God
Before the invent of clothes
Stars were brighter
We were the happiest
There was no word in between
Nor any sentence to form
Only a touch was enough
To feel each other within
Now the laws and the oaths
Rule the hearts and the mi...
Tuesday 21st March 2023 7:01 am
Deadly Devotion
There is no such thing as a river wide enough
to keep me from reaching you.
If there is no boat available,
I'll simply swim the whole distance for you.
Even if I get swept away by the current,
I will make sure my body reaches you at least.
Saturday 25th February 2023 8:31 pm
Books>>
They judge me
All of them
Constant daggers of pity
Shooting from their eyes
For choosing the company of books
Over company of people
Loud music and
noisy dinner parties
Casual hangouts
where people
Talk and talk but
never seem to listen
You are missing out on life
They'd say
As they breeze out
for their quota of fulfillment
of this life
How would they ever understan...
Tuesday 14th February 2023 4:59 am
After The Holocaust
Here I am,
The last man survived
Nobody left to console
None to share the pain
The only fool to withstand
The holocaust
It is raining since
The last bullet fired
Perhaps to wash out
Human sins
Till a single drop of
Dead blood remains
Feeling ashamed
Of all the memories
Feeling guilty
Of human legacy
Feeling relieved
From war a...
Sunday 12th February 2023 3:33 pm
Home Interior
‘’See you tomorrow’’,
that was what you said.
Back then, I could not identify it as a lie.
I only realized when I got to your house the next day,
your hanging frame decorating the place.
Thursday 9th February 2023 2:51 pm
The Words
in the end everything seemed
to be superfluous,
our whims, our worries,
our everyday words
whirling in between
the four corners of any statutory affairs
in the end everything was
so predictable like the unfolding
of any well rehearsed drama
that our words became silent
like the tired desert
after the longest day of the year
in the end everything pushed
...Tuesday 7th February 2023 4:47 am
Regret
Regret
Regret
A thousand times regret.
Choices made,
that cannot be unmade.
Stupid things,
done again and again.
Foundations
laid for a useless life.
Coming to an end for some time.
At least death will be done right.
Kind of hard to screw that up.
(Photo taken by poet. It's the Pennsylvania hills behind Frank Lloyd Wright's Kentuck Knob House.)
Monday 30th January 2023 3:59 pm
Consumed
I remember in poverty,
eating ramen noodles,
daily.
Beans and Weenies.
Meatless sauce
spaghetti.
Rice, Rice, Rice,
without any real
spice.
Bologna Sandwiches.
Hamburger Helper
mixes.
Fried Spam,
and all kinds of meat,
canned.
Hot Dogs on a stick,
burnt to a
crisp.
Catfish from the creek,
yellow belly
meat.
Milwaukee’s Best.
Another broken
promise.
The cheape...
Tuesday 17th January 2023 10:18 pm
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