Posts tagged Writing

Poem: ‘horizon’ (and some thoughts on procedural poetry)

the horizon
                fixed the abyss to an eyelid
             there I was
                         stretched        like            vessels
               across                                  the sky
before learning as adults
                                   my thoughts            pressed
                along the flow of a

                                        plume

                         until the pressure was subdued

more it gazed into me,

                                                               More I aged, per mesi…

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Poem: The Solution

The Solution

I under colours, suffers
my driving thoughts
all day through.

It grows so immense
that before I know it,
I am lost in open waters.

I asked my father, never short of
absurd and profound truths,
whether I should discard
the horrible eyes of English
as though it were a well-defined illusion

Still I know
had he told me different
I would have cried tears
that could split atoms,
as I clung like a coastal city
onto the edge of my identity.