Another day has gone.
I sit and pray like a maniac,
with a white smile, you can count on.
I prepare breakfast and prepare a story to tell.
I prepare so many wild things often.
Bricks on bricks, and soft wool of tales.
You left like a reptile in a hibernation.
with floors slipping beneath my china body.
i pray and pray. That’s what i know the best.
I once prayed during my abortion,
beating the sweats and my blood.
my blood was thick as a waxed cloud.
Oh, how i wish you stayed!
What is that flows and flows behind my ears?
A life. A full stop. An endless conversation with life.
Over the years I have developed a harpoon of olive skins.
Skins that are cleaved too.
They haunt me in moments of despair.
They haunt me in these bright shiny days.
And here I am sitting, sunbathed, moth running on this fungus swiveled hands.
Eating and flapping my heavy bosom.
It speaks beautiful anatomy to me.
Oh yes, it does create a map on my toes,
a map on my mind.
Here I traverse, sideways like a waterfall. A soft and a quiet one.
I am not in a sad mood today!
Autumn is my favorite season.
It speaks only the truth, the brown fallen truth.
And I swallow it like a sincere patient, popping a pill to be alright.
#NAPOWRIMO-2
MVS! I AM SPEECHLESS. PLEASE CONSIDER MY SILENCE AS A SINCERE APPRECIATION.ππ·
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Oh my dear girl, and I am in awe right now.
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Absolutely beautiful poetry! So many stories and feelings of the heart weaved
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I think what you do most times with words is not like anyone else, you craft them in a way that is most unique–placing words w/ phrases that do not usually belong and for your work and the depth of it, it works.
“Oh yes, it does create a map on my toes,
a map on my mind.
Here I traverse, sideways like a waterfall. A soft and a quiet one.
I am not in a sad mood today!
Autumn is my favorite season.
It speaks only the truth, the brown fallen truth.
And I swallow it like a sincere patient, popping a pill to be alright.”
Above… I can read that again and again and again and never tire of it. Peace, Devika.
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This was my favorite too. It speaks so much of my current situation, I feel.
Thank you Tre for reading it all over again, to show your love.
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You’re very much welcome. π
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Quite insightful. π
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It is!!
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βΊ
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so good π
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Thank you.
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I may be saying it again but your analogies are the best β
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Oh my.
Thanks for this again.π
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My absolute pleasure
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It was painful but I can understand the emotions so well….beautiful piece of writing!!π€
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Thank you Sunaina. Beautiful name.
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hey thanks ! π
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It’s put in words in a beautiful manner.
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I’m going to repost it
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Sure.
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