Have you ever forgotten the sky?
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Category: Inspiration
Nefelibata
What does time mean between a night and a cloud? Where does space go in the middle of a kiss?Where is absence when passion ends? I walk in foggy autumn …
In the still…
A quadrille (44-word poem) inspired by the word “still”.
Raised as a fire-ignited vision
I reach the still of tonight […]
Then you blinked
Usually you have that diamond brightness on your left eye. Often I have the mystery that makes you uneasy. Or is it the other way around? Occasionally, fog surrounds us, removing all except for that mysterious diamond. Then you blink. Then I doubt. Or we kiss and forget. Just… We…
A path to freedom
It is Ayatollah Khomeini’s early days. Marina Nemat is only 16 when they arrest her, after leading a strike in high school. Sent to prison, she is tortured, and sentenced to death. The sentence is then changed for life imprisonment. The payment is to marry her interrogator, lose her catholic…
A flowy passage
Amelia looks at the water where moonlight transmutes into a flowy passage. She wonders how it would be to walk such path. Would it free her? Would it liberate all fears? She imagines fears released and flying away like colourful butterflies. Amelia observes the night, the fluttery rainbow leaving her…
Fear is a darkened rose
Fear is a rose with black mask. Fear is what makes us move. It is the next step we ought to take. the uncertainty of turning left or right. I fear me, I, all and nothing. Then I walk. I take the road… I step out. I fall, I run,…
Death and jazz
I think of you and wonder ’bout death and cycles dawns or sunsets nightmares doors bliss It’s all mixed up blended into amorphous impressions Unseen thoughts right here Old jazz inside my head Music fused with closure maybe also melancholy or serenity…