Eruption

Birdcage

how feeble one may be

to be a captive in someone’s heart

tone a curtsy with their toes curling

and play a puppet as the fingers strum

the dreamy chords of their discretion

or unfettered may one be

free to flout or flout so free

like antibodies breaking the jam

can I stay without a command

now habituated, and play my part?

©Written Frames, 2020

Weathered

how long shall we hold onto the flowers
once were silken, now crisp?

shall we carry it along, make it home
when houses are changed?

what the forgotten corner will do
voice the vanity of your proud days?

what dissent the potpourri shall bear
oft it muffles at the cries of joy

of fresh bouquets
arriving
now and then

Poetry of Routine : Finding loophole

blood in my veins races in a loop

on infinity petals of a knot

a knot in muscle, a knot in tongue

feeding contortions of silence,

a caged hamster runs

to please, be pleased

now faltering for a breath

with binaries of extremes

the ends never meeting

to love, now unloved

I am a spinning spindle, beseeching

a preemption with the hand grazing

brooding over its fuzzy logic

let me hear myself say ‘what if’

I pine for a palpitation

a sigh, a smile or a shriek

identity of a throb from a tamed beat

it escapes me like that of barren lands

them who know naught of welcoming

never shall they grieve the frozen

never shall they thaw

©Written Frames, 2019

First in the series can be read here : Poetry of routine: The Crossing

let me be

why don’t you look at me?

do you see demons in me?

and the demons of hurt ego you hide

you hide, is that what you want to be?

why don’t you talk to me?

is it the rattle and ring of words I may say, or my voice shrewd?

I am drilling holes in your gut and tongue

bittering your taste, mocking your permeating anger

why don’t you pick on me?

thrash me breathless with your slurring speech

your skin swamped with hot-spills of blood,

perforations with my name engraved oozing of it

talk to me, talk to me, talk to me

have I noticed before your clasped lips;

passively humming a song – let me be

trodden like an autumn leave, betrayed

let me be, let me be, let me be

catapulted on the shore naked

let me be, let me be, let me be

tell me

where does your moon-eclipsed eyes settle?

even the void in your smile matters

do not look away, hold me naive in your view

and know your name breathing on my tongue

resonating in my lungs, begging to stay

will you kiss me if I pucker my lips now?

will you poison my senses with sweet love?

birds in my heart still leave their nest

echo of conch shells summoning my respect

furtive glances capture you afar and worthy

I behest, smiling to my own a mercy

let me be, let me be, let me be

a seeker and you darling, why leave me thirsty?

Poetry of routine: The Crossing

blows of routine, mourned

dent in chest and ache of lemons

squeezed to drink, to refill

honking horns, vrooming

breath savoring the phase of wait

men stewing under their noses

galloping gait, impatient

kicking the pebbles and people marching

the paradox of them coming to leave

a busy crossing, a musing

curlicues of civilization on interrogative hooks

moving, though not looking back for once