grief
dazed, unspoken
infuriating, saddening, stabbing
expression of outer, speech of inner self
halting, screaming, trembling
speechless, concrete
fear
.
* Poetic form: Diamante Poetry.
fear
Haunted
The rusty door creaked open.
“The house seems to be abandoned since forever.”
“It is spooky.”
“I like spooky things,” he held her hands grinning like a fool, which she adored and entered their abode for the summers.
“There will be so much work to do.”
“I have called for the workers. They will come tomorrow and make the place livable for us.”
They had reached the center of the lobby and took a look around at the ancient tapestry and crimson walls in the mid-afternoon light; the floor was bare but for a carpet bathed in dust and a grandfather-chair in a corner.
“This house is not haunted, is it?” she meekly asked.
“Oh yes it is.”
She gasped at the mad look in his eyes and that cruel smile, she had never seen before. She trembled from within as some red fluid appeared on his lips and he snarled.
She ran for the old rusty door but it was somehow locked. She hastily looked back but he was nowhere to be seen.
“Oh god… oh god…”
A loud banging sound resounded from somewhere. Tears appeared in her eyes, “Please save me… oh please!”
“What has happened to him?”
She crouched down still at that very position and felt a dull ache at her chest.
Some one was coming for her; she could hear the footsteps, soft but not silent on the carpet. They sounded distant. She was in a dream world; sweaty, her entire body numb but for the sharp pain at her chest and her ribs.
“Are you okay, darling?”
“I was just joking with some help from…”
She felt a soft touch on her face and she looked up at him, into his eyes, now completely normal, gazing at her with fear or was it love, she did not know. She closed her own eyes shut, never to open them ever again.
*Written for the Trifecta Challenge.
the indeterminate sky
he roared with laughter
and the thunder rumbled,
a shine glazed his eyes
and the lightening strikes again,
he wept in joy
and sweet droplets peter down,
he cried a lover’s melancholy
and the great tears descend,
he wailed a mother’s fear
and the drops solidified,
he hollered in pain of despondency
and the tempest turns up
begetting mayhem and annihilation,
he is powerful,
formidable he is,
the king of the heavens,
the seed of the mother earth,
the father of the titans,
the eldest of all,
the indeterminate sky.
*Written in response to Personification prompt
leaving for her journey
Hello bloggers,
I got a wonderful opportunity to work with the lovely Merbear and you know what, we ended up creating this poem together. Please read and share your views.
leaving for her journey
She was binding her hair in a bun
Readying herself for the journey ahead
Which may take her to distances unknown
Bring in her the sense of being alive
She had never felt ever before
She was leaving behind all her fears
For the adventure that awaited her
.
Her stomach coiled like a snake
Past torments licking at her heels
Dare she run so fast and proud?
Her life not worthy of a fairy tale
She sighs so loudly she startles herself
Trapped emotions needing to meet air
Praying to breathe air
.
The stream of tears fell down her cheeks
Which she didn’t even care to wipe away
She was looking for a happy ending
Which she had to find herself in her own way
She picked up her hand bag of happy memories
And moved ahead towards her cage door
And pushed it open, it wasn’t locked
.
Desperate echoes of her soul
Beckoning to her aching heart
Calling her to where she needs to be
She trembles with trepidation
Limbs weakened by the struggle
Her life never drawn before
By her own personal design
.
She was never meant to be free
Doubts crossing her mind
When she had just seen the sunshine
But she would never return back
And thence, she flies away
Its true leaving is difficult but
Once you have left, it is easy not to turn back
.
Then the breeze whispered her name
A lullaby warm and soothing
Like balm for her battered soul
Bringing her back to herself
Oh, she thought she had been lost!
Smiling inside herself with pure joy
For her true path was known all along
Hello Child
Hello child,
Here I bring for you
the flowers- sniff them
won’t you?
they are so beautiful
aren’t they?
such a smooth blackness
they behold over them
sniff them son
sniff them, oh my dear child
and let me hug you
let me give you the kiss
let me hold you
let me grasp you from behind
let me be with you
please draw me inside you
let me cover you in my cape
oh my dear child
listen to me
here is your depression speaking to you.
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