Colours
Blinding colours peer through the night, spreading light onto a grayscale life. Eradicating dark corners, conquering doubts and fears. A fleeting dream, a…
League of Legends Cypher, part 2 (Rap)
I’m the sole master of gem craft And give your ignorance a pass Emerald for insight incites team fights You know you like this gem knight’s might Opal for…
Not Yet
Morning found me drunk with sleep, head spinning with exhaustion It crept beneath my eyelids, peering in with little caution And pushing them awake divorced my…
Life is but a Flicker
Life is but a flicker From one moment to the next Never mind if slower, quicker Life is but a flicker Sparks abruptly at the start Ends in ways no one expects…
chimera
streaming down her face a meandering crimson river round her high cheekbones: a mountainous onslaught for truce of bloodshed: torrents flood parched lands…
soldiership and poems
I’ve been enlisted into military service recently, which explains the sore lack of writing here. As I move on to my next phase of training, I hope for more…
Hair
An extension of myself, reaching out from the top of my brain, over wheat grain fields, over a thumping, throbbing tree at the center of me, Over closed…
What Could, Cannot, And Will Not Be
Oh, how did she, with such finesse, dissect me with her graciousness? And with her kindness so impart these sutures left upon my heart. Her words rejected that…
It'll Walk
It’ll be like something in a movie It’ll walk on wooden doors And stomp them Until they open It’ll be a painting of a picture, taken 25 years ago when you…
Ashes
Dark, bitter ashes In my soul doth dwell Pain’s cruel black lashes On my flesh doth swell A turn wrong taken A tale that’s untold My spirit’s shaken My love…
The Words On The Wall
Can a man ever know what he cannot recall? Not at all, not at all! said the words on the wall. How is the man, when he has no intent? _He is spent, he is…
Hurt
‘twas times greatest deceit and, thus fallen, lays love. Was slain, in defeat though seemed fated from above. In pleasure the pursuit, pleasure gained for…
Limerick Cycle for "Pretentiouslimericks" (1/2)
I’m a tutor who hails from Dubuke. There’s one student I’ve got to rebuke: Though I asked for a limer- Ick, there’s not a glimmer Of poetry from her; just…
Evening Sounds At Home
Crinkling roll and clattering smash Silverware drawer refilled at last Plastic scrape and tapping out Sister measures the right amount Intermittent notes…
Right, Left
Wearing the right bra left her in a better state or probably not.
Cruel Casanova
All those niceties, that calm demeanour, that amicable smile that lasts every hour, conceals a congenial reality, a personality - innocent, incognizant of a…
Until Curtain Call (Poem)
Arms wide, I reached for you— would we embrace, or not? Eyes turned, delivering my cue— few fish like to be caught. Naught have I that gleams or snares, my…
Departure
Stoically, silently, stupidly - little time to start a revolution - my heart grinds, as if mechanically. Gears turn - a glorious initiation. Eyelids flutter…
Insomniac
your delicate smile it touches my weary heart; awake two hours more
Pen
It lands acutely, absolutely. An albatross over a white ocean, wandering, wondering, nearer the horizon, eventually exhausted, exasperated. It is devoid of…