Union

Do you love me,

or is your love

too magnificent

against my failed and hapless

virtue, fetus-formed,

barely pulsing but trying

to flesh out and depict details

in contrast, in a fundamental form?

Do you hear me,

as a mosquito-buzz nuisance

to your bright and flawless grandeur,

or is my deficient faith worth

the encounter, evoking your mercy?

Do I know you

at all or only as a dream

of being engaged to your

wild erupting

lava-flow inspiration,

to the hot touch of your tenderness

here and here

and my heart and self

at one, at peace

fastened to your love,

receptor of your astonishing

calypso flavour?

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First published in “Raven Cage Zine #70” June 2022

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Poet

My breath and blood,

my spiritual soldier,

death expresses itself

then ends to find another muse.

Hold me in your form,

unoffended, know I am

capable of true choice,

planting colours before unseen.

My last call, I am withdrawing,

weakening, biting a bitter morsel.

Darkness is a hymn, infiltrating

my subconscious.

I will take the globe and smash the sphere,

my boundless exemplary love, lover

of the embracing midnight, star light and roses.

I have no customs I am determined to keep.

I will give up all my rituals, my summer garden

to walk again, with you, on fire.

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Published in “Al-Khemia Poetica” August 2022

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Published in “Raven Cage Zine #70” June 2022

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Vatsalaradwritingworld Magazine Dylan Thomas Day

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Declaration

The declaration came,

ground-breaking, significant

to every aspect of my nature.

At stake is the stability

of my core symbolism, the root

and the fruit combined.

What matters is this day

to walk the wooden floors,

replenish my joy

in the simple things of duty and care,

opening to the embrace

of alternate thought patterns,

pursuing the paradox,

digging out its centre for a braver scenario

to catch and be malleable with, kneading

and knowing the vision will form,

overtake and dissolve superfluous

dreams and attachments until it

pulses like an embryo

forming, being formed

readying for

exposure.

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First published in “Ink Pantry” June 2022

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