Tag: Love

White (Guest Version)


White is all I seek

In this world so bleak

You were all that was mine

You had something I couldn’t define.

 

Then the world fell at our feet.

And everything went bittersweet

I forgot to swallow my pride

And went with emotions I couldn’t hide.

 

We used to think we were stars aligned

Our lives and emotions were intertwined

You filled up every part of me that had cracked

And you didn’t mind me for everything I lacked

 

But I let you go and I went on my own

Now the memory of you chills me to the bone

Because even if I’m now a different enigma redefined

My feelings for you can not be left behind

 

Now I’m looking for light in the dark

While wanting to forget the past so stark

Now I hope you’re glad with the path you chose

As I go on and seek for white in the shadows.

I’ve written a poem White before. It was for a series of poems with colors (white isn’t a color though. I forgot what it was called in art.) as titles. The first of the series is Black.  A friend of mine (real life friends)  had written his/her own sequel which kinda makes me conscious of my own writing skills.

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Tell me, how did this make you feel?  You have the liberty of sharing it through the comments below. Don’t worry. I won’t judge you. And besides if someone would bully you, I have perfect control over the comments.

 

 

 

Snapshots


The sad reality settles upon her like a cold thin blanket, hugging her tightly. Her mother made her believe she was about to enter the doors of green pastures. She entered it and witnessed the grass and flowers wilt before her eager eyes. Money was her enemy. She’s now weary from the pain. The world seems to vanish into oblivion. All she ever wanted was to finish college but now her dream flutters away.

***

Bidding goodbye to her old prison, she performs a breakout. She leaves to the city and seeks a job. In her simple strolls around the city, she meets a girl and sees a friend in her. The girl bridges her to her brother, an honest and funny fellow.

***

She suddenly realizes she falls in love with him, gravity suddenly pulling down stronger than usual. Little did she know that this man had fallen to her charms as well. Without a moment’s notice,  her heart soon soars the skies when she catches the man offering his love, pure and noble.

***

In a lovely dinner in a simple house, she tells her story of defeat and the unexpected twist, her destiny, to her son. No genius could conclude the odds of her finding her own green pastures from seeing a former one wither.

This is my submission for The Daily Post’s Discover Challenge, Snapshots. The challenge requires me to tell a broad story using small strokes. If you haven’t figured it out, this is the story of my mother, or rather snapshots of her life. I failed with the 200 words though.

Black


Black is all I know
They say you reap what you sow
I should’ve ran when you said go
But I refused and said no

Now my heart’s deteriorating slow
In my veins, acids flow
And through my eyes, fire will show
My mouth will speak and its words will blow

Thank you for letting me live in someone’s shoe
I would miss for what you do
I thank you for the clue
My dark life had seen the light and grew

I miss you now because it’s true
These thoughts that pop, I’ll try to chew
For in spite of what made me new
I cease to find somebody new

As I sit here with my hunched back
I long to stand but I’m stuck
I wish I can turn time back
For all I know is black.

This is part one of my weekly blog series covering poems that have colors as titles. Want to see the sequel?

Penned/Photgraphed by: AsilandtheKeyboard

The Sailor (Edited)


Arrows drown the sea
The defiant sky mumbles
Displays of forks are seen
The pained earth grumbles

Loud whispers orchestrate the waves:
Some sit idly
Some dance wildly
And some read violently

The storm brews a mess,
But it does not bother
This man on wood and steel
Who was a sailor like no other

His transport, propelled by love
He dared to smash the border
To prove his noble intentions
He pushed the ship harder

Tides of misfortune
Crash against the hull
But he trudges on
As icy cold wind pierces his skull

Discouragement lashes like the gust
It shakes the sea violently
Titlting the boat hard
He grips the rails firmly

The ship rages and batters
His ship, a man in tatters
Mercy he seeks
And in a blink, the storm scatters

Happiness seizes control
Dethroning fear in his heart
Realization pushes it aside
And sadness engulfs and leers like a dart

The woman he pursued
Whom he showed that he can
Offer love like a mother,
Was already with another man.

Penned/Photgraphed by: Leo Knalb

The Sailor


Calm and placid
he stood
Eyeing the storm and island
He was to face

The tempest winds
Scared the sea
His ship too was
About to flee

But violent as it was
He had to sail
For love
He must not fail

Shrouded by coldness
Surrounded by noise
He urged the ship
As he hears the maiden’s voice

A battle ensues
A tiny dot in the ocean
Confronting a behemoth
That compared to a thousand

The world was grey
And then all was still
At last he had arrived
His heart was thrilled

A pang of misery then takes control
This woman he pursued determinedly
Of all the sacrifices done
Was already with another man.

So, he sailed back
Heart swallowed by pain
Off alone in the vast ocean
Searching for another one.

Penned/Photgraphed by: AsilandtheKeyboard

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