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The Shivering Hands and Shaky Voices | Anupama Mishra

The shivering hands and shaky voices are left alone, nowadays.
The days are unpleasant, perilous and grave for the old.
Having been deserted and left
he is avoided like an abandoned house
with its broken doors and sagging porch.
Poor old, considered as an oxidised lock,
is now felt unsafe, unsound, and fallible for the new dwelling.
Although he is like an old peepal tree, the bodhi tree
Which offers no food but offers the shade from the scorching sun.
That’s why it is deserted, not being able for the fertility ceremonies
Like marriages and childbirth,
But in the reality he is the soul like the peepal tree,
never dying, never renewing itself.

The Visitor | Jenny Middleton

I open my door and find you waiting
Amongst autumn and falling, failing light
Dressed in the thickness of a dun overcoat,
The verdurous twine of ancient forests
Un-scrolling as you speak.
Your cracked lips shape islands and words isolate
The truth of your visit and the sickness
Of plastic churns grey in our ocean guts.
Inside I offer pain-killers and recycle
Panaceas of wisdom.
We analyse the figures
And skate through thinning ice against
The brooding night as the as the drift of damp moss
Grows through our conversation claiming
A small victory against the great highway.

Did you call too late?
Outside the concrete is spread and setting.

More at https://www.jmiddletonpoems.com/.

Memory Is Vermillion | Jenny Middleton

My mind a sky tumbled; a glass of thought.
I want to pour on to paper pearled drops
Of dew to quench the hungry, thirsty pages.
Bluely burned and lit words are forming you
Into a being of strange landscapes glowing
Dangerously; death darkly brooding and rank.
Each mental recess an avenue of despair.
You channel rivulets of words pain-bound
To a sea of messages sliding silver-grey
Beneath my hands. Pain, loss and soft beauty too
Shivers and something silk and richly woven
Has begun to sew itself to my clouded
Mind, despite the angry disapproving
Unbelieving staid stares and prying glances.
Past is alive and a throbbing agony
And all memory is vermillion.

Yet the Debate Continues | NilavroNill Shoovro

It is dusk
Not yet dark
Like the north sky
Stars are preparing
For the evening conference

She will walk along with her love
At anytime for their rendezvous
With a red rose in one hand
The other hand will remain free

Although the evening is special
Also for the stars
As they are gearing up
For the heated debate

The lovers have no idea
About these developments
They are so composed
In their secrecy

Eyes remain locked
Desires are dancing
With mutual understanding
They are so familiar with

Yet the debate
Continues without
Any conclusion
About love and desire

She is now glowing hot
The vowels start humming
Pages of histories-
Unfolding secret stories

It grows darker
Stars are now very agitated
She starts to unfold her alphabets
The primordial Womb
Will take over soon

More at https://poetnilavronill.wordpress.com/.

Rhyme’s Word Is Sirius | Jim Bellamy

rhyme’s word is sirius, dogtooth in a samba.
rhyme fleeces its flesh and bone and
spires in a pyramidic valley.
rhyme rears, through hearse and arctic spume,
the straining ebbs of the rainbow’s gyre,
the cry of helm and envoi, sired and volleyed.

rhyme’s lave is daughtered by a jordanous fire.
the sermon in a scut, the glory that abides,
strips on the summits of verbotem.
rhyme that seeks Life, sparkling in the mouth,
as the shores of Israel, shall be found
and furnished with the yores of death verbatim.

who makes a rhythm? which rhyme is colour?
rhyme blows the starving angel in the vein.
rhyme is board and sovereign as time’s scheme-
the world is fusion made inside its searing peril-
a secret-in-a-vial, conserving with the seas,
sound knells the supine bell with runeous hammer.

behind a rock of rumour a lackadazing whistle
tells me of the hour, its harpstrung scream
flairing where the word expires, consumed and gleaming,
where harpischord and trumpet wind against a dream.
come of blood and mortar and the meadow’s signals,
cum of spark and ash, the rhymer grinds,
breaks and constrains then parries like a widow.
born of clang and crash, the whistler splits the choir.

especially when the rhymer reads-
(born of spring and summer and the autumn’s sister,
the angelus of winter and the dilly in the veins)
with linguid liquids, famishes and cleaves?-
come of an augur whose auguries are daughter
to the hearted heel of music, spiring come the showers
of the tocsins in the blood, warring and conspiring,
where, by bolt and oboe, the vowels of music flood.

glad in a shower of words, i listened?

More at https://jimbellamy.simplesite.com.

Revenge and Remission | Amrita Singh

T’was a crimson day streaked by the shadowy dusk
Yet it appeared dipped headlong into inkiness of treachery

Like the whole world had conspired
To bathe in the saltiness of revenge

A dark silhouette, dressed in layers of hiding
Concealed deep within, his predicament
He held a velvety red rose, Innocent and yet crafted
He twirled her around, smiled as she looked lost unto,
Bent to kiss the nape of her neck…

That which he revered true and long
And planted the rose in her fragrant bun
Her tresses came undone, while He kept twirling her around and round

As she laughed, a beautiful tilted resonance in the sky
He stabbed at her heart with the dagger,
The dagger which curled at the wrist
Like a shocked wind, her breath emptied itself
She lay wounded, in love, the last drops of life ebbing away
And He covered her with the discreet white shroud and walked away.

Remission

The sky looked like a lover’s palette,
Pinkly hues, engulfed in orange and blues
Moments, never more perfect for Love
A love that brought her back,
Unscathed from the realms of guilt and rues

The shiny mirror transformed into his gaze,
Perched lovingly, atop her face,
Dabbed into the scents and adorned her neck
Tied her hair into a bun, at his behest

She looked at herself, soaked in love
And wished that time would pass more speedily by,
To when they were together, tucked into an embrace
And then time could stand still, forever

A token of his affection, a satin white cape,
Wrapped around, the warmth engulfing her,
She hastened her pace,
Happiness unbounded, for she could now see,
There, holding a rose in his hand was He.

More at http://www.soulroot.blogspot.com/.

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