poetry
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Poems April 26-30
Poems written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge 2024. A Map Of The Heart I traced the shape of my heart.I traced the arteries and the veins, the aorta, and the auricle, studied the chambers and the valves.But they hid their secret deep within their red folds.I put my ears close…Real close and Continue reading
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Poems April 21-25
Poems written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge 2024. Pink Moon My mother would often say,”The more pet names you have, the more loved you are.” My daughter and Itook this to heart. We counted her pet names once and we landed at twenty-five!Thirteen more than the moon.The Algonquin must have loved the Continue reading
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Poems April 16-20
Poems written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge 2024. Timeline Straddling two worlds separated by time, I wait for reality to sink in.There is something ridiculous and soothing about this incessant rising and ebbing of tide and time.Lulling us into making plans.I stand and watch,out of sync in this new world I inhabit, Continue reading
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Poems April 11-15
Poems written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge 2024. Food Memory There was this time, when I went back home, the first time after I had left for my own.My mother made me my favourite mealat four in the morning! So that when I entered home after a late-night flight, I would be Continue reading
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Poems – April 6-10
April 6 to 10 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge. Everywhere I want to be everywhere.Like in that Michelle Yeoh film – everything, everywhere, strumming through dimensions vibrating like a higher being.Maybe then I could havechanged outcomes,changed the past, present, and what is yet to come.Maybe.But I am not living in Continue reading
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A Dream Forgotten
April 5 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge. There’s a worldacross veils of gossamer wisps with no roads, or rivers to cross, neither far nor near;they say, it is right here.We can slip in, but like names on sand as wind and waves move in, we leave no prints.Cloaked from sight, Continue reading
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Again
April 4 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge. There’s something gently heroic, about you and me.The simple act of getting off the bed,placing our achy soles on the ground,limping to the loo, dragging that borderline obese bodythrough the grind of the day.Epic love stories written in countless wet towels picked off Continue reading
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Cat Poem
April 3 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge. Have you ever wondered why cats have nine lives? Why did the divine favour the feline? I ask it of my neighbour’s blind Persian. She batted her white lashes at me, and then with unerring instinct leapt on to my knees asking, “have Continue reading
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Renew
April 2 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge. I used to be afraid of snakes.I still am, but now, awe mingles with the fear.How does it, so many times a year, shed and renew!And yet again, shed and renew.Birthing a new me, is like revisiting, a favourite old playlist, after many Continue reading
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Soft
April 1 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge. The petals fell from the heavens,Kissing my closed eyes,cheeks and lips.A sign of hope,and lovebeyond dimensions.I am the flower mad one.My girl knows it, andrains them down on me.‘Here, ma,’she seems to be saying,‘Take these kisses from me.’Soft, soft, softly the petals rain Continue reading
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