Fireflies of laughter
chasing after the fireflies
of fading laughter
ears bleed
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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I want a Car! Can't Walk! !
The horses of your
wishes,
gallop ruthlessly,
on infirmity
of my barren
hands.
Tando Yusuf
July 21,1996
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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Crime & Punishment
Your name has
Staged coup in my mouth
For this treason high
Murder was avoidable; perhaps
through murder alone
* Inspired by poems from Anna Russell & AA
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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…………….Thought a Terminus
a poem is born; a theory enunciated
a song sung, a sonnet forgotten
all just a termini of thought…..
thought meanders; moves
forms new ruts irrigate new lands
sauté hearts anew and sing new songs
thought moves on
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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The Last Remembrance
I often let it slip through
the roughened irony of my palms,
and then some nights,
I clutch it tight
playing make believe
that, some tinny remnant
of the flimsy atlas we built
on the morass of hope,
may find its way home
into the cemetery of my heart
where your grave
stands open: the luminous
beacon to my redemption.
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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Climax
As if the container of mind
Reached the last mark of sobriety
Extreme frontier of patience
Beyond which fire and froth are one
Each vying to consume the other
Each suffering on extended plateau
of guilt and lust and lust and guilt
your past and mine came together
^^^ Wardhas’s...^^lost souls^^.... wandered into the stream of consciousness or was it stupor? ? ?
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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Lotus of River
Amid the irreconcilable, unbridgeable distance
between two banks
Flows a brawny mighty river
hiding the satiation satisfaction
of caressing a lotus atop
its meandering flows
battling the intrusive sea, fauna and fowl
The river a philosopher, a poet, a warrior
to all that gawk at its might
remain indulged; involved; and
into its lotus
** Dedicated to the river that is keeping my lotus safe
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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ITill Exhaled -“Inspired by Viola’s Anticipation”
The lingo of “hope” I spoke-
“Certainty” hope’s bonded fettered slave
Tongue rolled out sun
Cleaving clouds of doubts
I spoke hope; retrieval whence blasphemous-
A catharsis of uncertainty
I spoke of “you” in a monosyllable of “us”
I knew of tremors, tsunamis and jolts
But I said “us” alive, awake to
undoable [heady damage]
I inhaled you as I whispered……. “hope”
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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Defining the Indefinable Light
As I inched away from your love
I walk into darkness of a deep sea,
Enveloped in dark clouds,
Layer upon layer of waves
You are the Light of lights
Of heavens and earth
Light the blinding Light!
Light the awakening Light!
A speaking Light that begun
before the birth of question
Light coursing beyond the answers
that beget but questions!
Light a beckoning
Light a reckoning Light!
A Light too high to cede to our darkness
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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Herded
Last rivulet of conversation
writhing on the edge of
wet expanse of acceptance
soon the desert would be herding
mad pack of silences
Kinetics of vast journey
removed from niches of mind
vacuum will suck in all contours of happiness
on this fork of déjà vu
on this roundabout of fate
I stand spent or perhaps ready
For another winding journey
To be herded with arid flock of silences
Inches beyond the vast expanse of acceptance
poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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