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[535] Until We Meet Again
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To meet her once is to meet her for all eternityHer auburn hair a flame, ablaze in ferocityComfortable in silence, comfortable in selfThere is a lust for an experience that is beyond selfA hereditary habit of reading newsTo meet her again is a chance to be rebornShe has never had a crush (at least that’s…
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[532] The Divine Tide
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What escapes us every day tires usBut, is it keeping me alive?Eyes linger, mesmerised by stardustWhat escapes us every day tires usWarring feelings, which one to trust?A headless dove clutters my designWhat escapes us every day tires us But, is it keeping you alive? “NaPoWriMo Day 4: Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is…
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[531] As She Fades
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When I am standing on the edge Revelling at the vista, which the mist blurs I forget the lovely image, hers, asShe fades… fades… fades awayOver me, joy has taken me in its veilMore a creature of this world And one less angel on the earthI want nothing more, nothing lessWhen I am standing on…
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[530] Broken Pieces of Our Past Lives
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An aftertaste of when the mind’s apocalypse ends, blissRed lipstick on my soulA feeling that lingers in the infinite pastThe warmth of a past loverThe apathy to accept that it will not returnThis is the sound of the universea portal to another world where I bloom in the discarded NaPoWriMo Day 2: Today’s prompt asks…
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[529] The Hollow Earth
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where vulnerability goes to diewhen the listener is self consumedwhere love goes to hide when you’re not presentthe hollow earth and its ravenous voidthe space of no returnwhere lightning cannot be capturedthe constant beating of the heartconsumes all friendshipschasing a lost memoryrunning on lost groundi see the glimpses of remembrancebut forgetting makes a distracting soundwhere…
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[523] Count Me Out
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When the lights go outI’m left with a lack in melike damage dwells in my kneeIs it pain or upward spinal ecstasy?Playing catch up to my thoughtsAn utter abandon of prideShudder and stutter in speechAll the ravens waiting for meIn the painting of my lifelies a dark centre amidst delightMelancholic bitter sweet flightA confident self…
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[520] Enigmatic Presence
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Running out of wordsin a velveteen quicksandEngulfed in the eternalI listen to my oceanic orchestraMy inner world jostles and i turn the other wayuntil i’m facing awayfrom my eventual fateEverything and nothingall at once, twice and all timesI move feelingsI force sadnessI grab the fleetingI am an enigma stuck in my own wayslocked out of…
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[519] The Great Beyond
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I hide from your secretsI live in another planewhere we words are extinctso we only listen to the musicthat we emit from our bodiesThe music of our impossibilityIn another world you lay next to meIn another world we kill each otheruntil we’re born again, in another worldA million sunsets meeting at the edge of the…
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[518] No Place Called Home
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Cradle me in my sufferingBreathlessness in my cryingWaves crash on my wallsTook a second to break it allBefore you turn into a strangersay it one more time you doMisty self image I’m starting to forgetSlivers of courage remainsI carry it in an open casketThe journey of remembrance is now one of survival holding onThe man…
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[517] Meeting Beyond Right & Wrong
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I am anonymous to youBut we know in our white heartsthe unique way we look at things We meet on a common groundin the afterglow of our celestial dreamsThe world of reading between the lineswhere we reside in between the wordsStar crossed lovers with no end in sightHere, Jupiter is in our palms Metamorphosis of…
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[516] Meet Me Again
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To find functionI silenced the voices in my headNow every poem is inaudibleevery love a compromiseHow long can you go onchasing a past that never wasChances that slipped through the cracksMemories are all we’re left withNowhere can we meet except at the funeral of my museJust to hear one last truthA hope that some things…
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[515] Slivers of You & I
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The world knows me notfor they only see the livingI exist in the merrymaking dreamsI exist in the margins of timeI am the reflected But the reflection is all they seeSubtlety of thoughts is my palaceThe source of light is my kingdomYet in the five senses is where i amusually lost and foundIn forgetfulness is…
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[514] Cosmic Dance
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Dying embers of a visageshow flashes of returning hopeFlooded libraries drying upKnowledge cannot be drownedeven inside the sullen bodyeven inside the dormant mindDying embers of a visageshow flashes of a time gone byBubbling of gaps in memorieslike the time you saw her for the first timelike the time you felt it all should endlike the…
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[513] The Blind Kingdom of Dreams
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Signs of her auburn hair Her lips only touch despairSlight bravado in her touchEvery deed she does is fairKindness leaves her soulwhen she sees with her gawking eyesLives, sunrise, wars and doomhow could it coexistShe never blinked to sleepconcentration fallacyInsomniac in the fleshThe night spoke in tearsOne day she awoke from the furore of the…
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[512] Quicksand Love
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Scarce emotionsGive me all that’s leftWe’ll make do with our doomWe’ll make do in our nestNightly talks replete with insomniaMy chest filled with your tearsSecret language of the cricketsWe find common groundto translate our soulinto each other’s heartsWe see itOur fulfilled potentialI feel your hands filling the gapsand the falling of the memories of sandsceases…