Paid Mistress – A Poem by G. S. Katz
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
My place
Look good, smell better
Don’t be late
Do everything I want
Money on the dresser
In the Godiva bag
Take the trash on your way out
Smile back at me
Leave
Do Not Sigh My Darling Do Not Do It – A Poem by Anuradha Fonseka
Do not sigh my darling do not do it
I want to feel your warm breath not your sighs
I want to hear your laughs not your cries
Do not sigh my darling do not do it
Whisper softly into my ears
The deepest thoughts of your heart
The fears, the dreams, the love
Yet do not sigh my darling do not do it
I know what you are afraid of
I know where your dreams are directing
But not the sighs you let out
When you think of me and us
I do not know where these sighs go
I do not know if that is uncertainty
Or the utmost despair
So do not sigh my darling do not do it
Do you know how fiery these sighs are
Do you know how they burn me
Do you know how they ruin me alive
So my darling do not sigh I beg you do not do it
Plural and Universal – A Poem by Naduni
I was solid
But you were fluid
I was determined
But you were undecided
I was dedicated
But you were preoccupied
I was hopeful
But you were existentialist
I believed in you
But you believed in none
I wished for a child of you
But you laughed at the very thought
I yearned for stability
But you dreaded the very thought
I and You are plural
Since every woman and man is similar
When they are in love…
The Essence of My Spirit – A Poem by Naduni
Among the people
I met in my long drawn life
Few could read me
Still fewer could love me
You are one of them
Like the smell of a strong coffee
In my working night
A mere, floating thought of you
Boosts up my spirits
The cheer of my pleasure
The tear of my fall
The courage of my aim
The honour of my gain
You stand still like the sun while the planets of my sentiments
Change their course with time
At a mere word sent via the phone
You are all alert, awake and concerned
Whether I am OK, happy, doing well and
Whether I need you…
The sedative pill of my sleepless nights
The energy drink of my working hours
The claret of my pain
The aroma of my indulgence
Till eternity you will follow and
Guide when necessary
Whether I remember to ask you to do so or not
Like the wave that caresses the shore
I am ever so grateful for that eternal care
You bestow on me
Your name is written on the solidest tissue of my heart
So it will remain even after my decay…
The Prison of My Dreams – A Poem by Rebecca Delahoz
I look at my life and see who I really am. I see how others may see me. Staring at myself in the mirror I’m forced to see the real me. The me I try to hide from others around me.
I see someone who dares to dream, but dreaming is all that she does. She knows where she wants to be even how to get there, but doesn’t dare walk away from her ways.
So in her dreams she stays. The fear of breaking free and having to
overcome her insecurities holds her back from this person she wants to be. Staring in the mirror looking at the reflection that doesn’t match this girl in her dreams. She screams. Living in a prison of her dreams. The fear of knowing she’s not breaking free.
How do you overcome so that you may break free? It’s a prison I feel inside of me. I need to be the real me. I put myself in this prison of my dreams. The shackles that hold me down are all the insecurities I let grow and take control of me. In the end it’s me who dreams, and it’s only me who can break free from the prison of my dreams.
The Wheezing Rain – A Poem by Naduni
Laps against the semi
Privacy
Of the half open window
Insufferable drought
Comes to a standstill
‘Seize the moment’
A young man shouts from the street
A handsome boy
On his way to adulthood
Unhardened by the truths of life
Unroughened by the coarseness
Of living
He hasn’t lived yet for more than two decades
‘beautiful faces no cares in this world
When the girl loves the boy and the boy loves the girl’
I look for the girl
She is nowhere to be seen
Looking at him I ponder over my life
How old am I yet so young
I wish I were sillier and simpler
Life would have been easier
He senses me, looks up and smiles at me
I smile back
The boy passes the house
May be not,
Life would have been more difficult
If it wasn’t roughened and hardened
The darkest niche of my heart knows
That the ‘experience’ is what keeps you going
Coming of Age – A Poem by Naduni
I thought I was in love
When I dreamt of you at night
When I yearned for a glimpse
Of your smile in the morning
When I suddenly stopped listening and thought of you in class
When I kept awake till small hours
I thought I was in an eternal love
When you declared you’ll stay with me
Till death…
When you enquired every day after my health
When I used to see your face in the mirror of my dressing table,
On the ripples of my bath tub,
On the leaves of my notebook,
And on the pillow of my bed.
But when I saw you holding her close and declaring
That you’ll stay with her till death
The bubble exploded
The spell broke
The trance was undone…
I was left disillusioned
That was the day I came of age
Half-Masted For Days Yet To Be Made ANew – A Poem by Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne
A Nest…
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Invaded FathomLess,
Spitting Images… Fractured Crystal-Blue,
Spacious Sporadic Spontaneity…
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Inverted MeaningLess,
Vexing Sight… Cataract Rapture-Red,
Capricious Cumulative Conceit…
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Isolated ThoughtLess,
Sucking Sense… Impacted Drained-White,
Deciduous DumbFounded Deified…
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Summer Embrace – A Poem by G. S. Katz
Lovers
Park bench
Secluded
You in your summery dress
Me in my softest cotton shirt
My lips on yours
First gentle
Then insistent
Tongues colliding
Passion in the trees
Shielding us from danger
This dance may never happen again
Savor me
As I devour your need
Unexpected Happiness – A Poem by Nathy Dulanto Bernuy
Lost in my feelings
Couldn’t find the way out,
The frailness of this soul,
Looking for calm
Fighting against my thinking
No solution found
Restlessness of this heart,
Hidden in a corner were
Answers to this meaningless life
Hope only from
Holding on to my dreams,
Comforted by this light
Without notice, all changed,
Joy was rising
Unexpected happiness
A new love was born
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