Poem: Tears

the tears in her eyes revealed it all despite her efforts at detaining them inside dreading someone’s fall with their fall but the feelings in her heart the emotions that wrought drove the moist pearls to the edge of eyeballs the dust of truth trapped in a web of lies a ray of sunlight struggling … Read more

Poem: Border

Grace at dVerse has prompted us to write a poem on the “border”, especially the mental boundaries that borders create. I just went with the flow and couldn’t control my feelings while writing this piece, hence, a little long.   “Play anywhere but do not cross the border” my mother always warned when I was … Read more

Poem: Loving Memories

there’s something in the wind today that’s creating ripples in my present-day that’s fetching all old memories memories of you and me memories of you stealing glimpses of me memories of the door from where you peeked memories of the music that you played for me memories of the eyes that gazed at me memories … Read more

Tanka: The Moon and my Heart

  windstorm propelled my heart’s melancholy to sky the moon stands forlorn hoping stars lead jubilance in sky as well as my life       This post follows the prompt words given by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #36. The prompt words are “happy” and “sad”. I have used their synonyms, “jubilance” and “melancholy”.

Didactic Cinquain: Love

In didactic cinquain, the first line is a one-word title, the subject of the poem; the second line is a pair of adjectives describing that title; the third line is a three-word phrase that gives more information about the subject; the fourth line consists of four words describing feelings related to that subject; and the … Read more