poetry

poetry

Counting my losses

the marigolds did not grow this year.you left us.a friend died of cancer.my migraines have grown in number.the children have […]

poetry

Oscillating

when a man passes bymy hips sway-a will of their ownthey have. at a signal the car sighsmen turn and

poetry

Resting place

i’m standing at the threshold a child plump – hair tied eyes fixed on liquid lives i do notunderstand. i am four

poetry

Of hashtags

sylvia plath did not commit suicide #loneliness murdered her being #misunderstood is what you do to me when you know ineed you 

poetry

Qasida to longing

nasiblove existed before longinglonging precedes lovingi reach the fire you had madefind ashes alonelonely in their dreams waiting for someone to

poetry

Lone wolf

that search for the ideal I … lurking in shadows and searching relentlessly. she had seen the days of writing

poetry

Spaces

drip drip ……. drip let the droplets accumulate in a pool of an insignificant amount allow them to flow from

poetry

Choose then

fajr is quiet like dusk. a peaceful pause between one time and the other. she rose to say her namaz,

poetry

A hundred beads

“he came softly to the recesses of my memory lips resting on his shoulder reminder of a longingnever satiatingnever completingoscillating

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