Submissions by SatInUGal (Kumar)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Concision and Paradox are my weapons of choice. I'm a haiku fiend and an imagist.
GET A GRIP
Get a grip
I yelled to you
Before you threw
Yourself at me
Get a grip
I silently tell
Protective hands
You bruised and battered
I yelled to you
Before you threw
Yourself at me
Get a grip
I silently tell
Protective hands
You bruised and battered
#abuse
#bullying
#hurt #DomesticViolence
#hurt #DomesticViolence
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ECHOES
The backs of my hands
Know your balled-up anger
Better than the back (or inside)
Of my head
Thankfully,
Though their echoes
Won’t let me
Forget:
Everything I try to hold
Threatens to fall through
My weakened
Clasp.
Know your balled-up anger
Better than the back (or inside)
Of my head
Thankfully,
Though their echoes
Won’t let me
Forget:
Everything I try to hold
Threatens to fall through
My weakened
Clasp.
#abuse
#bullying
#hurt #DomesticViolence
#hurt #DomesticViolence
466 reads
4 Comments
MEASURED RESPONSE
Be a caliper
So you may know
Your tolerance
So you may know
Your tolerance
#peace
#philosophical
376 reads
0 Comments
SCRATCH
I am like a nail—
I love the itchiness of
Hot and healing flesh
I love the itchiness of
Hot and healing flesh
#senryu
334 reads
0 Comments
"BYE NOW"
This one client says
at the end of each call
and every time I smile
because every time
I can hear it
the way my grandma
always said it
at the end of each call
and every time I smile
because every time
I can hear it
the way my grandma
always said it
#happiness
#memories
388 reads
6 Comments
THE DELICATE SOUND
During our phone call
Light cracks thru the heavy clouds-
“I can hear your smile”
Light cracks thru the heavy clouds-
“I can hear your smile”
#lover
#senryu
334 reads
4 Comments
LEARNING TO WORK WITH THE NOZZLE ON THE BIDET
I asked how it's done
And you twerked naked for me—
"Get yo shit clean off!"
And you twerked naked for me—
"Get yo shit clean off!"
#funny
#senryu
#dirty
261 reads
3 Comments
6/27/20
The sugar snap peas
You picked-
I can taste the sun
In them
You picked-
I can taste the sun
In them
#sun
#nature
#food
302 reads
6 Comments
DEFINITION
What is a poet?
Someone who will always be
Better on paper.
Someone who will always be
Better on paper.
#anxiety
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry #senryu
#WritingPoetry #senryu
510 reads
4 Comments
THE CHOICE
On the night I gave into my fear
Without turning to face it
On the night I took a stand
Without the support of my heart
You told me to stop making lists
(And I had made lists)
You told me about adoration
(And I had known adoration)
The future may be filled with doom
But I am in love in the present
Our existence is a miracle
So the impossibility of so many goals doesn't scare me
When I hear the chatter it sounds to me like,
"I'm not so sure about this uncertainty."
We live in a kind...
Without turning to face it
On the night I took a stand
Without the support of my heart
You told me to stop making lists
(And I had made lists)
You told me about adoration
(And I had known adoration)
The future may be filled with doom
But I am in love in the present
Our existence is a miracle
So the impossibility of so many goals doesn't scare me
When I hear the chatter it sounds to me like,
"I'm not so sure about this uncertainty."
We live in a kind...
#parent
#fatherhood
309 reads
4 Comments
QUIZÁS
I’m addicted
To the nectar
Of a flower
That blooms once
Every 100 years
(And I don’t know
When the last bloom was)
To the nectar
Of a flower
That blooms once
Every 100 years
(And I don’t know
When the last bloom was)
#flowers
#lover
562 reads
2 Comments
UNSTABLE AND RAMBLING ONWARD
Scraped up
Stinging
Aching
Breaking
Sliced and
Put back together
Not wrong
But different
Lovely
Evolution
Stinging
Aching
Breaking
Sliced and
Put back together
Not wrong
But different
Lovely
Evolution
#love
#evolution
#learning
#SelfDiscovery
#healing
305 reads
2 Comments
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