Your eyes are so dark. You stared with that sweet quite smile. Eyes interlocked. Felt unveiled. Why? _____Adriana Citlali XXIX-I-MMXXIII
Tag: silence
Shades of silence
It wasn’t confusion that crushed clouds into thunderstorm
It wasn’t my body disheartened by your words
The poetry of the untold
Almost forgotten Waves hitting the corner of your eye Words refusing to leave your muted lips A touch you take for granted Every day Each morning Thru the whole night Ephemeral Sounds silenced by the background noise by that noise –reminder of the relevant…
Not enough confusion
Stillness and silence were all I could hope for … Ancient words kept flying around. Right behind my forehead, chaotic phonemes forcibly formed foreign words. Hubo palabras huecas en idiomas conocidos. Dissonant sounds were known incongruent words in disguise. In between my ears, there was a constant resonance: a noisy…
On writing a poem
You: How do you write a poem without knowing what to say? I start by attempting that impossible silence in my head while your question bounces with varying emphasis filling in that luxurious void so hard to come by The bounces start changing frequency sometimes they go into resonance …
The refusal
A ghost-face against the silence that keeps playing that song haunts me… Is the music an effect of the vision? Or does the song draw this ethereal face note by note? I close my eyes seeking quietness, darkness. The song acts as a snake biting its own tail. I break…