To you, who will hold my dear heart with its hidden, broken sharp parts, for you, dear, I write this word art. Love’s a known sea I did explore. Yes, I have loved some hims before. Yet I know for us it’ll be much more. Let’s wait until our story starts. For now, let me […]
Category Archives: Poems
questions for soles who crave to walk on eggshells: a quadrille
cr-cr-cr-crack one corner after another, tip-tip-toe carefully, on top of crumbling eggshells. is it, is it a triumph to walk his crushed carpet of survival? w-w-why do we choose to create home inside crevices so fragile? is it called saving? or is it suicidal? — 11.19.2019 ©2019 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved. Photo via […]
Poems for S: Book Cover Reveal
… my third baby book is here!!! Do you also believe that long-distance love is tough and scary? Do you also believe that relationships, the romantic ones, require so much of bravery? This book of poetry believes so. Containing over 100 poems written for several years, this collection features the unsure and the blurry beginnings […]
a land i wish is a myth
in sixteen seconds, bang… bang, bang, bang, bang. two young breaths cold and glass-eyed. behind’s a pair of teen-hands. instead of his birthday cake, with a pistol, he blows his own mind last. in sixteen seconds. another school joins an exclusive club no one dreams or wants. in sixteen seconds the sky gulps, to welcome […]
New Book Alert: Poems for S | December 2019
View this post on Instagram With a heart full of hope and lit with light of love, I share with you my new book, my third poetry collection, #PoemsForS. It may sound cheesy and sweet at first glance, but love, we know, isn’t always inside the heavenly cloud nine. Beyond i love you’s, mein aapse […]
t w o w o r l d s
Find me in silent corners where the horizon’s mouth swallows another burning ball, licks the cool sky in pastel blush in front of all. Find me in soft, tender nighttime blanket, sipping a the third cup of my daily coffee haul. Find me inside the chosen shell of solitude where thoughts are slowly eaten, gingerly […]
End and Begin
We can live a thousand lives yet never can we say we fully understand love— a changing matter from concrete solid to shape-shifting liquid to intangible gas, a metamorphosing butterfly from a crawling larva to a cocooned pupa to a winged epitome of class. But my love, when I look into your eyes, I can […]
snow and ashes
Snowflakes falling looks like a dream, but shovelling thick snow is a task. Some millions tear up with Notre Dame, then mutely smells Amazon’s ash. When will we speak, when we should? When will we answer, when we are asked? I hope before our mothership sinks. I hope before we all turn into dust. — […]
on Mars and moth
Man-made machines flying will not satiate humans’ dreaming from the clouds to the moon, even Mars is under planning. A brave moth hunting for the fire that can burn its metal wings. — 07.21.2019 ©2019 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved. Photo by David Dibert on Unsplash In response to Sonya of Only 100 Words‘ Three Line Tales, Week 181 If you want to […]
One Million Stars to End Violence
Originally posted on michnavs:
“When you wish upon a Star, Makes no difference who you are…” -Jiminy Cricket, Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio” ? Stars Fled From Your Eyes ? stars fled from your eyes and the shadow of death cast upon your face on this dark gloomy night filled with goodbyes and unending sighs of a…
