Prompt for this week: Take an object that you think describes you. Write a poem on it. The poem should be able to convey how and why you think it describes yourself. And by object: it can be anything, anything at all.
Category Archives: Poetry
Stench of Death
Vultures circle overhead, a life was once at stake, Perpetrators run amok, Now a murder in their wake. Eviscerated granite corpse, Bowels strewn hither, plagued by maggots, in poisonous ether. rooted down by nails, as a ship ran aground, vocal cords shredded, they scream, utter no sound Medusa was pursued, She returned the favor, aContinue reading “Stench of Death”
The Messenger of Death
The wind stops, the song dies, In the distance, an infant cries The rusted windmill, creaks and turns, While civilization, in my hand, burns Look yonder, o’er the hills you’ll see, My gun, my sword, my steed and me, The barrel smokes; blood drips down the blade, The steed foams and struts in the banyanContinue reading “The Messenger of Death”
Light
Black be the name of the night,It’s stillness beyond refrain,Torn from the vestiges of light,All visions cloaked and slain Unguided, this walk, somewhere,No journey do these feet make,Until I see you, you’re there,O light, through the shadows you break You catch my eyes, you glint,Then you look away, there still,The wind makes you sway,Like theContinue reading “Light”
Epiphany
Standing in the dead barren landlooking at the ashes from the skiesburned down all the helping handsproliferating dreams in our eyesWe’ve broken all the hopes,gone past the rows of thornsNow days are merely trophies,on the throne of skulls they adornVindicated, we stand guilty now,somehow stuck here, you and I,Killing each other by the minute,Bleeding outContinue reading “Epiphany”
Arnab Mukherjee 