Parting is all we know of Heaven,and all we need of Hell.

We are only allowed to livedue to some colossal misunderstanding.

i bring my kiasu friend to the airportleavings are never easy, not for longand though we both saw blur along the waymemories flooded present tensions.in the curry of his life no lemak remainedso now the...

On the Gallows OnceKofi AwoonorI crossed quite a fewof your rivers, my gods,into this plain where thirst reignsI heard the cry of mournersthe long cooing of the African wren at duskthe laughter of the children...

There’s a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.

The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of...

ONE WORDOne word— one stonein a cold river.One more stone—I’ll need many stonesif I’m going to get over.

Saturated Arrogance…imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me…

Laws of physicslaws of loveof time and spaceand the (in)between place(in)between you and meand where we arelost and lookinglooking and lost

Life is a poem most people never read.

Bulan Merahlalu ditenggak darah bulan merahlolongnya yang serigala hingga ujung benuasebayang lindap sebayang lindap melayar-layarbulan merah mengucur airmatadengusnya yang api memunahkan negeri-negerisebusur waktu sebusur waktu meluncur-luncurtatap bulan merah di waktu malam merapat di ubun-ubunhingga purnamanya...

tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come...

Perhaps it was the way he’d look at me and smile,Perhaps it was the sound of his voice after being utterly defeated,Perhaps it was the warmth of his touch,Perhaps I’ve always been in love with...

Pain will humble ones soul,my pain was necessary as it humbled me beyond my limitations,I do not rush what is meant to be slow,patience”.

…imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to...

There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove...

Almighty God created a dancer as a symbol of the reflection of artistry in motion.

Spirit of a dancer ages like whiskey for it experiences in each dancing act lifetimes of freedom.

To have been where you have beenAnd to still have joy,Dazzling in your heart,Now there’s a thing to make the whole world smile.

I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were craving to fit inside the other, and is melting and reshaping could be...

Ultimately, we will lose each otherto something. I would hope for grandcircumstance—death or disaster.But it might not be that way at all.It might be that you walk outone morning after making loveto buy cigarettes, and...

the flames are silent,Peace is violent,Tears are frozen’cause massacre was chosen.~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories

One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Fungus was growing on the walls. I polished off a bottle...

be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you

I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we can’t cheat death but we can make itwork so hardthat when it does takeusit will...

Fox-TrotBy the stream the fox and she-fox stoodNose to nose beneath the starsDancing the music of the woods.The deer rapped a beat with their hooves,The ravens sang from raven heartsAs by the stream the fox...

Music helps to forgetThis forsaken tomb,That is my abodeCellars downFar belowUnder the ground, …

Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart ’til it reaches my outer me

The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.

Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can’t wear her smiling face to the platform. You’ve got to put that smile on your...

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

All day long you sit and sew,Stitch life down for fear it grow,Stitch life down for fear we guessAt the hidden ugliness.Dusty voice that throbs with heat,Hoping with your steel-thin beatTo put stitches in my...

Sour MilkYou can’t make itturn sweetagain. Onceit was an innocent colorlike the flowers of wild strawberries,and its texture was simplewould pass through a clean cheesecloth,its taste was fresh.And nowwith nothing more guilty that the passage...

At last the bottom fell out.No more water in the pail.No more moon in the water.

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

When I dieI’m sureI will have aBig Funeral.Curiosityseekers…coming to seeif Iam reallyDeador justtrying to makeTrouble.

let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that… which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like...

I am the constellation of my own.

REMEMBER HER- sudden wind come through your open window a silent wave fall inside of room you run to catch your curtain and she is not in that room—– remember her a little you are...

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them…

Do You Believe…on this road of lifeon this dayI take younow husband and wife…

And now we who are writing women and strange monstersStill search our hearts to find the difficult answers,Still hope that we may learn to lay our handsMore gently and more subtly on the burning sands.

Monster a person though monster not human.Monster like music. Like Beatles! Like Schumann!World full of stupid. World full of noise.Monster feel ANGRY. No birthday. No joys.World full of JUNK monster not comprehend.What is a childhood?...

Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain,I cry and weep every time I walk down the memory lane,Your love always completed me in every sense as a whole,But now...

Trăm năm là ngắn, một ngày dài ghê

You smile and draw me near and whisper, “Do as dreamers do.”I lean to you and whisper in your ear, “I cannot dream tonight my Dear. For it is you.

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit

If you are a dreamer, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin; come in! Come in!

I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I’m sweep into darkness in my search for the light.

God sent as a revelation the gift of dance so his creation may experience one of the divine pleasures of paradise.