Cravings and longings (collaboration post)

Aishwarya of kittyverses and I teamed up to write this collaborated post. I really enjoy her blog and I’m lucky to be writing with her. Please check out her blog here I hope you enjoy this post. Kitty, as I call her did the poetry in bold italics and I the prose in normal case,…

Refuge #poetry

What do you see #23 Here I am, a hair’s breath from all I desire I cling to my salvation desperately gripping on my sanity and my peace dependant my eyes sear the pages before me summoning a portal in which my mind will delve Ravenous hunger and scorching thirst bind me as greedily, I…

Fate

Fate creeps upon us all It spies and it sees who knows what secrets it has beheld the ones it will reveal and the ones that it will hold What power, what pleasures does it seek a voyeur upon lovers meant to be a vigilante, wielding callous justice carrying vengeance from pasts long forgotten and…

Forbidden beauty

Beauty leaks through barred windows as drops of glistening rain moisten glossy green leaves and the morning sparrow sings its excitement wooing one but drawing all Outside, the joyous world continues Inside, the jealous witness lingers What once drew not a second glance is now vivid, its allure enhanced What once passed from ear to…

Disguised in Love (fiction and poetry)

She loves me! She loves me not! My fear chokes hope in its noxious grip they dance in a deadly tet-a-tet along my fragile heartstrings She wants me! Oh yes she does! But for what I do not know I feel it in my bones a warning, ominous and yet exciting an icy sinister chill…

Seen and Unseen

Colleen’s weekly challenge Dusk tells portends of its arrival whispers dark as obsidian thoughts and secrets awaken sparkling with appetite bold and unabashed thriving beneath shadowed veils and cloaked schemes A time when shyness fades into dreams And realms of desire fade within moonlight’s beam Strewn upon the velvet blackness red, blue and yellow stars…

Holding on

What do you see #22 Heaven’s harbourbeyond the evil of this worldundimmed and undulledrefuge to beauty undyingI search for you my lovebeyond the reach of pain and lossmapping your pathway through splendid starsI search for you my loveon distant planets far beyond Marslonging to ease my heart’s demandsI brave the brush and brack of sinister…

Flavored display

Colleen’s tanka challenge This week’s prompt was especially difficult for me because I’d never seen the items in the photo but thank you to willow for encouraging me and enlightening me. And to kitty for the luck. Photo by Padre’s Ramblings . Opal casks of wine succulent with mysteries red and white delights piquant berries…

Mysteries of Midnight

Midnight, on the threshold between realms an aura of possibility surrounds you pleasure and pain writhe in an orgy at your very helm While shadows frolic within your different hues, lustful stars sparkle with salacious secrets And chance and destiny fight within your view My dreams dance while fantasy creates calming the mind and soothing…

Questions of Crisis (soul searching)

Hey everyone. I hope you’re all safe and sound. In light of this global situation, I’d like to emphasize empathy. I wrote this brief poem in the hope that you read it, dearest reader. May it stir something within us all… Where am I How do I breathe In this world riddled with danger These…