“While you’re there,” said the Moon to the Sun, “the world is there.
When you’re gone, the world will be... – by Glory Sasikala | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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My glass is neither half empty
nor half full.
Rich to the brim, and
just out of... – by Glory Sasikala | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Moon had seen it all, it was time to make amends
spread her gentle moonlight before darkness... – by Glory Sasikala | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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The hour was now
The time was day
Your thoughts eternity
And Death -
Just a moment
Leaving no time for
Philosophies
Prayers
Goodbyes
The players move on...
For them
The hour is still now
The time is still day
Their thoughts... – by Glory Sasikala | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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There's so much going on below,
Oh my! Dear Me!
Said the Moon, overwhelmed,
“What all I have to... – by Glory Sasikala | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Ten-year-old little street urchins
little boys..
hanging around -
voices up a tree
little dirty figures
perched on high walls
eating wild fruit.
How did they get there?
Little urchins
somersaulting into the ocean -
funny fish that are... – by Glory Sasikala | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Someone sang a country song, someone played a tune
How soothing is the moonlight, how beautiful is the... – by Glory Sasikala | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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MONDAY MUSINGS
monday muse and musings...
if you will...
the blues...
the grind...
coffee-lingering...
the neverending stretch of week ahead...
horrid bright sunny faces
and horrid happy 'good mornings!'...
grrr!! hate!
monday morning
... – by Glory Sasikala | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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My skin ain't smooth, I don't dance to tune
Life on my terms - I am the... – by Glory Sasikala | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Wondered why we drifted, and went our different ways?
Then one night in June, looked at the Moon, and knew it was a... – by Glory Sasikala | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Think of me and I'll be present
full and bright or just a... – by Glory Sasikala | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Your woebegone face wondering if we'll ever meet again
I still think, "How beautiful! This Moon through the... – by Glory Sasikala | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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It wasn't the hour that mattered
It was your being there.
It wasn't the drink that mattered
It was the compatible silence.
It wasn't the view that mattered
It was your hand in mine.
It wasn't the world that mattered
It was your safety.
It... – by glorysasikala@gmail.com | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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who was so good at
swallowing feelings
facing life with stoic acceptance
how easily I laugh nowadays!
how easily I cry!
I break even
not knowing how to live
not knowing how to... – by Glory Sasikala | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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My feet move on their own
to the beat of the music
The drums beat a slow beat...
then faster, faster!!
My body sways
to the rhythm -
my feet out of control;
my head rotating
hair flying!!
I throw my hands in the air
and dance with... – by Glory Sasikala | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Parents
the Original Pied Pipers
made children appear -
and when they did,
made them crawl,
dance to their tunes,
sleep to their lullabies,
read to their angry tones.
Dressed them,
poor mannequin dolls -
hair their way
clothes their... – by Glory Sasikala | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Their cities appeared on the map
She looked at his forehead and said
"The people in your city are intelligent."
He looked at her hands and said,
"Your city is clean and small!"
She looked in his eyes and said,
"A fresh breeze blows through... – by Glory Sasikala | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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The poem explores the dynamics between a married man and a woman who loves him and who he loves back. How she moves away from him to allow him to stay in his marriage.... – by Glory Sasikala | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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It's written to my daughter who likes to travel. While I sit at home and worry about... – by Glory Sasikala | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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my eyes meet yours
in a perfect fit
my breathing in
your breathing out
balanced in your warmth
my cold
my convexes
to your concaves
our four feet in one direction
synchronized disagreements
our smiles stretch
and go full circles
my...
– by Glory Sasikala | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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You were disbelieving,
were you not?
In your innocence
You never imagined
Such things could happen
They weren't real.
Those near and dear to you
Were neither so near
Nor so dear.
Your screams echoed through empty skies
Birds flew away.
...
– by Glory Sasikala | 49 Views added 2 years ago
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I can hear the pitter-patter over the tiles
of the small room that houses
the watchman's meager belongings
the plop as a drop fell off my window pane
the gurgling through the pipes overflowing
someone is walking with gumboots
one step at a... – by Glory Sasikala | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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He stood there leaning over,
With arm against darkened tree,
While she ran across, light and swift,
Anxious – and yet glad to be free.
He stood there admiring,
The golden sunset,
Yet turned sharply at the sound
Of her tinkling... – by Glory Sasikala | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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shuffle a pack of cards
and deal
and i pick up
and we play
the game of assumptions
you assume i am yours
so i tell you i am yours
and wait to hear you
never say
you are... – by Glory Sasikala | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Writing is like
There’s no Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
It's like there's no 1 o’ clock, 2 o’ clock, 3 o’ clock, 4 o’ clock....12 o’ clock.
There's no morning, mid-morning, mid-afternoon,... – by Glory Sasikala | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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In the stillness
Someone coughed
Someone yawned
Boss on phone
He –
Control A
Control C
Control V
Copy-pasting
My thoughts
In his diary.
The whirring fan
My ice-cold
stare
Blank at screen
Her tinkling laughter
jarrs on my tired brain
Switch off.... – by Glory Sasikala | 4 Views added 3 years ago
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In the graveyard of the buried alive
she screamed and groaned...
moaned
and they sighed...
another one
to tell a... – by Glory Sasikala | 33 Views added 3 years ago
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I wonder how far I can go?
she wondered
Not this far, I said,
Really? So it's that far then!
And by that far she meant
The whole... – by Glory Sasikala | 5 Views added 3 years ago
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GLORY TO PIGEON:
Greedy Pigeon!
Don’t fight with your wife!
Give her some rice
You’ve chased away the sparrows
Why’s your outlook so narrow?
Learn charity and kindness
Don’t act like Royal Highness
And you’d better meditate
Your stress levels aren’t... – by Glory Sasikala | 7 Views added 3 years ago
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Heart words beat wise quotes any time
strangers most of you, yet
somethings resonate, don't they
in a world of changing equations
yet, global, reachable, connected
yet not redefined
friendship remains based on mutual
love, respect and... – by Glory Sasikala | 16 Views added 3 years ago
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Lemon-colored negligee, hair tousled
don't care that my window is open
the street outside empty,
quarantined and anxiously scanning oximeters -
measuring each breath while regrets pile... – by Glory Sasikala | 9 Views added 3 years ago
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I mean it God
when I say I don't want to hurt
I don't to be unforgiving
but when someone comes along
deliberately gloating, hurting
taunting, flaunting, jaunting
counting, daunting
can you wonder that I'm pointing?
but know it's not who I am
It's my... – by Glory Sasikala | 5 Views added 3 years ago
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just outside the clock
along the periphery of your dreams
an invisible line in picture frames
as a criss-cross in your hand
in a story never to be told
in just an intake of breath
in fading ink of yellow parchment paper
in a fleeting knowledge of... – by Glory Sasikala | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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You, the Queen, I, the crumb 'neath the table—
Non-existent
till you heard them exclaim I was beautiful
smart and talented.
And then you noticed, startled.
Is that when
you started measurement points
next to my natural growth... – by Glory Sasikala | 11 Views added 3 years ago
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Milestones can be homeward
Kissing can be a bite
Laughing can be silence
And wrong can be right
unravelling can be knitting
Clean can be a dump
Losing can be winning
Winning can be a... – by Glory Sasikala | 7 Views added 3 years ago
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There was no destiny
No mercy
No rationale
No omen
No prediction
No protection
And no... – by Glory Sasikala | 7 Views added 3 years ago
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Maybe I needed to be hurt
crushed and trampled upon?
A miniscule light went on in my mind
growing brighter by the... – by Glory Sasikala | 11 Views added 3 years ago
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owls
have big eyes
they grow bright
as day flies
night arrives
they arrive
night owl
on twig branch
silhouette against moon
can see what others can't
who stir in their sleep
uneasy that something flew by their... – by Glory Sasikala | 20 Views added 3 years ago
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