The wooden ladder

I stood at the foot of a tall wooden ladder
piercing a purple cloud in the green heavens;
all around the ground was bare except…

Tyrone Graham in Poetry en Motion

Aug 24, 2017

Birthday blues

Winded,
not up to snuff,
no, not nearly enough
to blow out
a mere
three score
candles
at one go,
I wonder —
will past excess…

Tyrone Graham in Poetry en Motion

Aug 22, 2017

To the morrow

Dispassion
that encompasses
the tears shed
over a fallen petal,
snow feathers over
the bending blades,
a turning over in bed.

Ankit Mishra in Poetry en Motion

Aug 21, 2017

Unconditionally Selfish

Like a mountain standing tall in his majesty

Tyrone Graham in Poetry en Motion

Aug 17, 2017

Make me laugh

Make me
laugh
till I cry,
help me live
till I die:
gasping
“Enough!”

Tyrone Graham in Poetry en Motion

Aug 10, 2017

Fisherfolk

The children
are golden
in the sunset,
splashing around
netted heaved on shore;
the chaunted “Ho!”
faints in the twilit air.
Tonight…

Ankit Mishra in Poetry en Motion

Aug 8, 2017

A Dervish Voice of Me

I found a dervish voice of me;

Tyrone Graham in Poetry en Motion

Aug 7, 2017

X-Rated

Would you
force me to intensify
my language
and the velocity
with which I deny
Would you
have me temper
and spice and spit
my no
not
nix
non…

Tyrone Graham in Poetry en Motion

Jul 31, 2017

One Moment

Now,
this moment,
I know sorrow
like never before,
yet
cannot say
it was different
in the past;
though
I would gladly
choose past tragedies…

Tyrone Graham in Poetry en Motion

Jul 24, 2017

Train Fare

A dirt track
of sunshine, shade
and fallen yellow flowers
bursts forth, veers
and falls back,
a breaking promise —
a goraka tree
looms…

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