Coffee

Addiction
Luscious black
Captivating, intoxicating, alluring
A swirled aroma
Stimulating, invigorating, unforgetting
My bitter-sweet
Coffee


-Nov.10, 2019

Writer's Block

The pen rushes; unstoppable yet
Thoughts deeply buried that fret
Fullness swallowed by emptiness met

Subtle meanings; ambiguous
Thoughts; so strenuous
Emotions; sensuous

Imaginations vivid and blurry
Overflowing ideas in brevity
Amidst freedom; perplexity

Stirs the mind that fetter
Pages remain in flicker
A torture for every writer


-May 7, 2019

You-Who-Can't-Be-Named

You cast me with a spell
So strong I can't repel

What is it in your personality
That threw me into perplexity

You're like to me an exception
From all the rules mentioned

Is it your voice that makes me tremble
That always got me into trouble

Just your presence make me clumsy
Turning me topsy-turvy

This may all seem like poetic
'Cause your ignorance make sick

Black Hole

A void of darkness
Amidst the universe
Nothing emerges
No light can escape

A limbo vast yet weightless
Puzzling yet clueless
While scientist fascinate
Mad men hallucinate

Thy object of admiration
A force of gravitation
Forever a mystery
Worth earthing its history

MARAWI'S BATTLE

M - y Marawi, once a home of peace
A - army of Maute, igniting the siege
R - uins, bullets, bombs and screams
A - s civilians flee and innocents die
W - omen and children hear them cry
I - deology waged by hypocrites
S - hamefully disgracing the "Deen"

B - attalions of soldiers of valor and might
A - midst the war, we see them fight
T - ime testified this history
T - errorism shows no mercy
L - ife sacrificed at both sides
E - nmity, I truly despise


-December 2017

Figuratively

      

            

When my words rhyme
Oh how I love the crime
Such forgivable murder
Of words changing order

Tis not only sequence
For you have to make sense
Read between the lines
'Cause that's where the secret lies

Measure not the length
But comprehend the depth
Sometimes brevity
Outweighs vocabulary

Compare by simile
To show what it's like
Or use metaphor simply
As it directly imply

If synecdoche takes part from whole
Metonomy replaces it all
It uses symbol
For things compatible

Words rumble and jumble
As if to personify
Like humans palpable
Worth to exemplify

Don't misinterpret irony
Filled with incongruity
Discern the ambiguity
To reveal its mystery



- 25th of November, 2017

Why Poetry

Too much to say
That won't fit in an essay
Let these words jumble
Hide in the world of symbols

Perhaps intricate images
May tell you my wishes
All the lingering questions
And bothering emotions

Interpret a verse
That seeks to find purpose
Amidst ambivalence
It tries to make sense

It's only words indeed
With all my thoughts scribbled
But these words I can't say
Through writing I can convey

Accept this humble legacy
A portion of my identity
A puzzle in all its beauty
Embedded in a poetry.


- 25th November, 2017