Carried by the breeze
6 November 2018
Whisper secret tones
Cast again veil of darkness
End wayward duress
Relinquish the day
Shine moon over the sun’s glare
Lessen light to bear
Chant the night to me
In soft-spoken melodies
Carried by the breeze
Reading of the poem:
The message – Still Corners
Moon Petals
15 November 2017
Grey dawns pearl
Pushing back the night
It subsides
In circles
The Sun picking up the strides
Invades horizons
New day born
From womb that was torn
Miracles
Pulsating
Within mind’s webs creating
Remnants of her Art
The Mother
She anointed me
Moon Petals
Whispering
The moment when prayers ring
To temples in heart
Reading of the poem:
Shoot the Moon – Norah Jones
Nightingale – Norah Jones
LoneStar – Norah Jones
Reach out to the fields
19 October 2016
The day lost
Meanings of the night
The darkness
Dissolved slight
Packets of velvet insight
Downloading the stream
Consciousness
Velveteen rivers
Soul shivers
As it drinks
From wells of knowledge to brinks
Of otherworldly
Meet my gaze
Follow us to maize
Bread brethren
Broken bond
We recompose he who yields
Reach out to the fields
Reading of the poem:
Going somewhere – Abel Korzeniowski
Come out of the Frame
13 August 2016
Now behold
The singers shun harp
Bridled carp
Amazon waters
Parthenogenesis Time
Songs without a rhyme
Look onward
Images speak word
Hurried speech
Preachers preach
Untowardly practices
Points the mind misses
Snake hisses
Venom natural
Antidote
In my blood
The heart pumps despite the mud
Arteries high ways
In the flesh
Lies the golden truth
Bearing fruit
Of ages
When the stones speak of sages
Buried under lids
The world skids
Out of its axis
New polar
Distraction
The will sinking inaction
Wilting contraction
A traction
Come out of the frame
Beat the game
Now outsmart
Giants who live without Heart
Day wed through the Eye
Reading of the poem:
The Mermaid – Yanni
Written on the Wind – Yanni
Rites of Passage – Yanni
Warped Universes
10 May 2015
I see you
Wherever I go
This world fades
Meaningless
Shades of light on everglades
Blocked by murkiness
The hours spent
Between days and nights
Embracing
Blue outcomes
The keeper’s voice grows in hums
Of the golden bees
The honey
Liquefied amber
Healing drip
Within grip
Of my folded palms I sip
The nectar of life
Coursing light
Sweeping my body
Mutating
Inner cells
Each change stops with chime of bells
Diligent process
Outside me
I replicate frame
Still the same
Yet different
Each copy contains its death
Like a stray still life
Frozen Time
Witnesses the flights
Nights embrace
Wane daylights
The tremors of settling in
Back into within
We paint shades
Of imagined happenings
Minds’ tremors
Giant playgrounds
Dissonance planted in sounds
Warped Universes
Reading of the poem:
Only You – Giovanni Marradi
Dreams – Giovanni Marradi
Peacefully – Giovanni Marradi
Second skins peel into day
14 January 2016
Look at me
I reflect your face
Shining bright
Sketched in me
Your inks an invitation
To discover nights
See me through
Light’s mysteries flee
From my touch
Lurching sparks
I reach within owls’ feathers
Gathering fate’s quills
Whiff my scent
Pick up on the shards
Embalming
Preserving
Remnants of sunshine and ache
As I exhale dark
Smell me dry
Of memories might
Conserving
Observing
The scent of despair and hope
Heady wanderings
Voice me soft
I fall like caress
From your lips
To my wait
Where two and two make more else
A fusion of sorts
Scream my name
In tattoos that writhe
Through my scars
Like dewdrops
On your hair and shoulders’ curve
The moon will glisten
Listen now
I speak of Beauty
Love your heart
Bless your soul
There are landscapes in my mind
Where we fly like birds
Hear me out
I will convince you
Of lovers
Who wander
In desert plains bringing rain
Like the rolling moss
Sense me bare
With lust and toil’s care
Light me spleen
Luster sheen
A repetition of thoughts
Litany’s prayers
Sixth me flare
Where shadows lead way
Light dies thin
Hurt follows
Second skins peel into day
Bright with future’s rub
Reading of the poem:
A few of the love songs that I have liked over the years and which translate several shades of love
Desire – Rumi poem interpreted by Deepak Chopra and Demi Moore
Veer Zara Do pal ruka Full song with English subtitles
Wael Kfoury – Hekm el alb with English Lyrics
Ci vorrebbe il mare – Marco Masini
Baby Can I hold you … Tracy Chapman
Ya Dali Ya Ro7i By Wael Kfoury English Translation
Main Yahaan Hoon Veer Zaara with English subtitles
Lara Fabian – Caruso
Sing o Birds
22 December 2015
(A short-form Haiku for once 3/5/3 stanzas)
Hark the Day
Rose into the Sun
Sing o Birds
Snow’s flowers
Chanting in my hair
Winter light
Days go by
Spring now slight beckons
Jasmine hums
Summer sways
The long sun-kissed Days
Crooning Hays
The lark shouts
Autumns wing Daylight
The leaves sing
Winter sprouts
Days in short bouts
Nights serenade
Written for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt using Sing, Day and their alternate expressions. Rules and ping back here
Mocking Bird Hill – Patti Page
Through the veil of dark despair
7 September 2015
Darkness will surround
Body that light diffuses
Compass in magnet
Matter enters void
As void will absorb matter
Each to its own end
Face kisses faceless
Fate embraces the fateless
Brings Faith to the faithless
Lost in night’s embrace
The willow will weep never
It finds peaceful sleep
Destruction in Love
Brings the sweetest mutation
Renewal all spells
Change is not for weak
Glory will find the strong Heart
That throbs with all Love
Change is for the meek
Humble is the one who seeks
Blessed shroud of Love
Be oak and be reed
Let every blow be blessing
Bend and stand tallest
The heart knows the truth
Though mind hums ever with bees
Deep inside you know
Dawn as you have learnt
Loves the darkest point of night
The peak of desire
Open your heart. Look!
Through the veil of dark despair
See the green morrows
A day will shine bright
As the night casts away veils
And sorrows scatter
A day will soon come
August 30, 2015
(Original french version here – Il viendra le jour )
.
A distant call rings
Black echoes from beyond grave
Bring me back your blood
.
Served bloody sausage
Of our dead future
Oh what rotten fruit
.
Indigested dish
Brings back weary memories
From depths I had slain
.
It I had reviled
Tasted it in weightlessness
Stealthily, hidden
.
Heavy, disgusting
Sour-bitter of a dead past
An acid reflux
.
Vomit your offal
Finally free my stomach
To digest other
.
.
I would tear my skin
If it were to bear your stench
Make it new banner
.
I will clamour loud
The withering of my sighs
Satirised in vain
.
To live and then die
Of nature to wound myself
That in me slithers
.
A life extinguished
I collected the ashes
And made a new shroud
.
To die and then live
Did I have to use the if/saw (play on si – scie in the French version i.e. the if or the saw)
To cut everything
.
A day will soon come
Where a beautiful bright void
Will cleanse my stomach
.
What is this madness?
19 August 2015
I wake before dawn
Having slept at its onset
Verily refreshed
If you are handler
Let my body be handles
That you may hold me
Thoughts of you suffuse
My very core as they light
Every handle’s fires
I became candle
That you may see in the dark
During your journeys
I became your feet
That I may lift your being
To the highest states
Elevated, free
You trod upon me never
We flew in heavens
Like your cloak of skies
I sleep with your sweet setting
Within me you rise
The suns wilting, skulk
At this radiance of you
As your soul unfolds
The moon unabashed
Held mirror to your image
And stole your silver
Sun and moon conspired
In wake of your glorious light
To cast you shadows
What is this madness
That day is night, night is day
And you stay the One?
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