I returned the flickering flame
For you to melt your
Waxwork eyes embedded with lies
~ ~
Having drunk the salt from my eyes
Your tongue can now garnish
Somebody else’s tears
~ ~
Does not the butcher too
Fear the jungles
And the orphan ghosts?
~ ~
My skin is not a parchment scroll
To preserve the history
Of other people’s ghosts
~ ~
Even if you see through me
The world
Will look the same
~ ~
Together with the burden
Of a nightmare
You carry the weight of futile dreams
~ ~
Slit your throat
Maybe you will then
Find your own voice
~ ~
Between the pages
Words plead
For release
~ ~
The seed has to flower
Before it can be
Burned to ash
~ ~
Storms are shallow
They can never shake
The ocean floor
~FV
3 comments:
Belated new year greetings!! The short poems are nice, is this haiku? The 2nd and last 2 were best. rgds
FV:
Haiku or not, the poems are amazing. My compliments!
Your poems deserve a book of their own. Kuch to keejiye, inko bahhar ki roshni dikahayei... They need a wider audience.
Btw, the "Addenda" as in postscript or as in a supplement. If this is the addenda, where is the agenda? Still looking for one:-)
KB:
Greetings to you too for a great year ahead...
No, this is not haiku, which is a stringent form of poetry that works with 14 or 17 syllables...here I have problems counting to make sure I have ten poems...but I like some haikus I have read.
PS:
Addenda as in supplement. To what? To wisps...to nothing...that is why there is no running theme, and if there is it conveys that it is just an added thought. The agenda? Living on the edge.
Do you know that now some people even see an agenda in my poetry? For someone who was too reticent to share poems, I started publishing only in 2001...it does not mean that is when I started writing. I have a peiti-full. Need to look at them again.
Re. 'wider audience'...I prefer discerning. If at all I get a book out, it will be that I won't need that peiti anymore.
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