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May 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

She

May 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Potato

She

She sang a song
of ice and snow
and dreamed of oceans
swaying slow
She swam through clouds
and flew near stars
Fell so proud
and dove so far

She was a sad harmony
A song she unsung
A silence unheard
A deed undone

She hummed a tune
of fish and birds
and bore with devotion
The beasts she herds
She swam through life
and flew from death
Fell from strife
and dove bereft

She was a sweet melody
A smile she unsmiled
A violence in violet
My hope she defiled

She sang a song
that twists the mind
and played my emotions
Leaving me blind
I swam near folly
and flew through sin
I fell in love
and dove right in

Apr 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Red Flags

Apr 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Jonathan

Red Flags

We chased a feeling
not a reality

We both wanted someone
So desperately
that we found each other

Even though no part of
us
worked

Our pieces didn’t fit together
so we pressed and jammed them
until they were stuck
and stayed that way
Until
we broke

-red flags

Apr 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Mom

Apr 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Serendipity

Mom

I wipe my face
with grubby hands
and pretend it is you
who is caring for me.

A draft from October 2022. The main reason this has been sitting here for so long is because I thought it was much too vulnerable to share, but now I know that's exactly why I need to share it.

Apr 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Sundays...

Apr 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Kris Fireheart

Sundays...

Tired...
My eyes burn,
My lungs ache...
The sun wakes me
Through the
Windows.

Dress myself
Wash my face,
It's time to endure
Another day...

Another rush
At the restaurant,
Put on a smile,
And pretend it's
Okay...

But I can't do this
For much longer,
My longest day
Is Sunday...

I work weekends at my grandmother's restaurant in Houston. She's 71, and puts on a brave face at work, but when she gets home, she needs her cane to walk... so I put on my best smile, help the customers, wash the dishes and say "Can I get that for you, sir?" "Is there anything I can do to help?" But when I get home, all I want to do is collapse onto my couch with my 14 year old Labrador...

#life #depression #reality #sunday #working #forced #family #duty #honor

Mar 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Rain

Mar 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

MKF

Rain

It’s raining,
And I wish you were here.
Because, and I know it’s cliché,
But I’m falling a lot harder
Than this rain, and dear,
It’s torrential here.
But these sheets of rain
Remind me of the sheets we share,
And I’d just as quickly
Wrap myself up in them
If I thought you were in there, too.
It’s 101° there.
But here it’s raining.
And I miss you.

Feb 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

No Longer Together

Feb 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Imran Islam

No Longer Together

How could you leave me alone
We had been together for years
How could you hurt me, baby
When my eyes are full of tears

We were a beautiful pair
No, no, it's not fair
I can't believe
We're no longer together

How did you forget me
Could you let me know
How happy you are now
I want to know

I can't see you around me
but always feel you inside
Each path reminds me of you
How long we walked side by side

Do you look the same
in the heavenly showers
Have you kept your name
as the divine flowers

Feb 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Time to Cerebrate

Feb 2023 Kavitha prabhakaran

Sarita Aditya Verma

Time to Cerebrate

Too distracted to write
Or it can be called busy, right
Wish that was true too
Busy can be in the mind
On an overthinking overdrive

Losing the thoughts
Which are best kept
Wrapped in warm words
To be used for better days

Losing good thoughts
Is like losing a place
Where warmth is always safe
Losing many these days

Do words care
Do they know
What missing is like
Cause I miss words

Isn’t the written word
All that and more
The feeling
That fulfils
The writer within
Time to cerebrate
Yes
To celebrate

Wow this went public in one go
Thank you hello poetry

Dec 2022 Kavitha prabhakaran

I don't care

Dec 2022 Kavitha prabhakaran

Ameed

I don't care

I don't care
I never did
I never will

I don't care about the stabs
I don't care about the lies
I don't care about the loss

I never did
I never will

I don't care about you abandoning me in the middle of nowhere or making me doubt every single person I meet or forcing me to look at the mirror and despise the foolishness I had.

I don't care about all the above.

I try to convince myself every night that I don't.
But, I do;
I fully keenly wholesomely do care and my care was my doom.

#care #loss #abandoned #love #people #life #confidence #mirror #doom #poetry

Oct 2022 Kavitha prabhakaran

Hello poetry site

Oct 2022 Kavitha prabhakaran

Sarita Aditya Verma

Hello poetry site

Hello poetry site
Diminishing its light
Brilliant its soul

When it is cold outside
Keeps the thoughts warm
In drafts or posts

To write and read a post
A task, too many times
With diminishing light

What will it take
To light up the site
With a brilliant soul

Methods I keep trying
Safe it works, sometimes fail
Frail the sever, it trails

Through Logins and logouts
And errors found
In history I keep
The latest and trending posts

The homepage sits empty
Many a times
What will it take to light up the site

Hello poetry site
Faint its heart
Breathing slow
What will it take to light up the site
With a brilliant soul