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.
MAMA SONG
Everything looks gorgeous, mama
Everything looks right as rain
Everything looks gorgeous, mama
Why can’t I go out to play?
Do you have your jacket, lovely?
Do you have all that you need?
It’s a cruel, cruel world, trust me
I don’t want to see you bleed
Everybody is playing, mama
Everybody is having fun
Everybody is playing, mama
These feet were made to run
Keep your hand in my hand, darling
Listen to the words I say
Many things are so alarming
Maybe you can wait a day
I don’t wanna wait...
Everything looks right as rain
Everything looks gorgeous, mama
Why can’t I go out to play?
Do you have your jacket, lovely?
Do you have all that you need?
It’s a cruel, cruel world, trust me
I don’t want to see you bleed
Everybody is playing, mama
Everybody is having fun
Everybody is playing, mama
These feet were made to run
Keep your hand in my hand, darling
Listen to the words I say
Many things are so alarming
Maybe you can wait a day
I don’t wanna wait...
#motherhood
#childhood
#lyrics #NaPoWriMo2019
#lyrics #NaPoWriMo2019
547 reads
4 Comments
URGENT
You want me to believe in God
Yet pray to the Marquis de Sade
Content to be what humans be—
I pray my kids grow up wild and free.
What did nature do so wrong
That we must interrupt her song?
Like Kanye in his foolish rut
Imma let you finish, but…
Got parking lots to be laid down
Got permits to build out more town
Got money in the bank so sure
That you don’t need to worry ‘bout her—
Well Mama Nature worries ‘bout you
And there are plenty things she’ll do!
I urge you all to practice wooing
Her so she won’t end up...
Yet pray to the Marquis de Sade
Content to be what humans be—
I pray my kids grow up wild and free.
What did nature do so wrong
That we must interrupt her song?
Like Kanye in his foolish rut
Imma let you finish, but…
Got parking lots to be laid down
Got permits to build out more town
Got money in the bank so sure
That you don’t need to worry ‘bout her—
Well Mama Nature worries ‘bout you
And there are plenty things she’ll do!
I urge you all to practice wooing
Her so she won’t end up...
#environment
#nature
#NaPoWriMo2019
637 reads
4 Comments
BURNOFF
Raw energy
should feel like this
I struggle to think,
pick up,
haul my skin
into the sun
for burnoff
should feel like this
I struggle to think,
pick up,
haul my skin
into the sun
for burnoff
#happiness
#scary
#uplifting
419 reads
2 Comments
DREAM FASTING W/LILLY
Who are you
if not me
by another name,
proof of the divine-
a djinn inside
its vessel,
kept in secret,
held by all
if not me
by another name,
proof of the divine-
a djinn inside
its vessel,
kept in secret,
held by all
#mystery
454 reads
5 Comments
INT/EXT
I always loved that every storm
Carries with it an edge
Where you can step in,
Or when needed, step out.
I don’t require the eye of a hurricane-
Just the existence
Of a border
I can follow as it moves.
When I need to get wet
And feel it fall upon my skin,
I will step in,
Possibly further, walk about.
But at some point
I’ll find that edge again,
Strip the storm off of my limbs,
Lie back and reflect upon the view.
#napowrimo2019
Carries with it an edge
Where you can step in,
Or when needed, step out.
I don’t require the eye of a hurricane-
Just the existence
Of a border
I can follow as it moves.
When I need to get wet
And feel it fall upon my skin,
I will step in,
Possibly further, walk about.
But at some point
I’ll find that edge again,
Strip the storm off of my limbs,
Lie back and reflect upon the view.
#napowrimo2019
#anxiety
#storm
#LifeCycle
#metaphor
#NaPoWriMo2019
477 reads
8 Comments
MEADS AROUND THE WORLD
Tej is a mead from Ethiopia
While mjød is the word for it in Denmark
Medica if you’re in Slovenia
In Poland it is weak- called Poltorak
Sima is from Finland and has lemon
Though some would rather call that melomel
If bees are not around try Acerglyn
(Assuming you have tappable maple)
Pitarilla sounds wild- a Mayan mead
Made with bark of glorious balché tree-
The more I learn the more I feel the need
To put each honey spirit into me!
#napowrimo2019
While mjød is the word for it in Denmark
Medica if you’re in Slovenia
In Poland it is weak- called Poltorak
Sima is from Finland and has lemon
Though some would rather call that melomel
If bees are not around try Acerglyn
(Assuming you have tappable maple)
Pitarilla sounds wild- a Mayan mead
Made with bark of glorious balché tree-
The more I learn the more I feel the need
To put each honey spirit into me!
#napowrimo2019
#spiritual
#alcohol
#bees #NaPoWriMo2019
#bees #NaPoWriMo2019
450 reads
12 Comments
ON THE GREAT WAVE
I rode
The Great Wave
With its many grabbing hands
All the way into the ground
The other day
Pummeled into submission
By the goddess of sand
(who held me desperately for a time)
I was pulled back
Into the watery maw
Blind now I go
With the gathering currents
Joining fingers with the rest
Of her adherents
Ready to embrace again
The salt in my body
is the sea in me,
Eroding,
Receding,
Exploding and pleading
#napowrimo2019
The Great Wave
With its many grabbing hands
All the way into the ground
The other day
Pummeled into submission
By the goddess of sand
(who held me desperately for a time)
I was pulled back
Into the watery maw
Blind now I go
With the gathering currents
Joining fingers with the rest
Of her adherents
Ready to embrace again
The salt in my body
is the sea in me,
Eroding,
Receding,
Exploding and pleading
#napowrimo2019
#sea
#water
#art #NaPoWriMo2019
#art #NaPoWriMo2019
512 reads
2 Comments
PURPLE
#lust
#dirty
731 reads
3 Comments
LITTLE CONVERSATIONS
Never has my life felt so much
Like a role in a dramatic film
As the moment right after
I forced myself
To ask her
That inevitable
And ridiculous question
And she responded with
The perfect song,
As if it had been selected
By a credentialed expert
For this exact spot
In the script.
I tip my hat to that expert,
My first love,
Cosmic big sister,
Dearest friend.
#napowrimo2019
Like a role in a dramatic film
As the moment right after
I forced myself
To ask her
That inevitable
And ridiculous question
And she responded with
The perfect song,
As if it had been selected
By a credentialed expert
For this exact spot
In the script.
I tip my hat to that expert,
My first love,
Cosmic big sister,
Dearest friend.
#napowrimo2019
#sister
#music
#PopCulture #NaPoWriMo2019
#PopCulture #NaPoWriMo2019
480 reads
ALL I WANT
Break into my heart
and you may slurp up the
delicious center
and you may slurp up the
delicious center
#senryu
385 reads
EASTER EGG
My heart has a shell around it
You can poke a needle through
Pour out all the runny insides
Scramble them- a meal for you
Paint it beautifully and then
Find a hidden place to stow
The shell- my empty heart I’ll find
And plant inside some me to grow
This ritual of resurrection
Happens with each passing year
Artwork layered on like armor
Symbol of a love sincere
#napowrimo2019
You can poke a needle through
Pour out all the runny insides
Scramble them- a meal for you
Paint it beautifully and then
Find a hidden place to stow
The shell- my empty heart I’ll find
And plant inside some me to grow
This ritual of resurrection
Happens with each passing year
Artwork layered on like armor
Symbol of a love sincere
#napowrimo2019
#Easter
#NaPoWriMo2019
490 reads
8 Comments
SHORT POEMS
I love to taste
the essence (and share
whenever possible)
the essence (and share
whenever possible)
#WritingPoetry
#sensual
433 reads
7 Comments
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