One Day You’ll Be Gone

And one day you'll be gone,carried away by the wind like a speck of dust.You'll embrace the oblivion.Remnants of your existence might linger on;Sometimes in the pocket of your loveror…

Heaven

I have to let you go,The time made me realise,Nothing else matters more than your peaceAnd mine too,Mine starts with you, after all.This is heaven, you know.The kind that welcomes…

I Was 16

I was 16 when my puberty was a newspaper headline,the coffee rings of my shame circled itlike one of the moons of Jupiterwhose name we never learned.I was 17 when…

Expectations

lamentably! contemplationsthou ruined the worldYou appose multitudesThus far aloof… poles apartyou the justification to twinkleyou the justification to woeThou brings blitheThou carry of blissThou motivate to liveand here living cheerfullyeventually;making…

Meet You There

Meet you there, in those moments, when hours and minutes dissolve into the echoes of the vast chambers of the infinite. A kiss, an embrace, a joke, a smile, a…

An Enigma

In a vision I saw a PegasusAbove it was man of great Valor.It floated stealthy in a hyperbole.The countenance I saw vague although;Above it was man of great Valor.I know…

Excerpts of Mahmoud Darwish: The Legacy

Mahmoud Darwish, the name that has resurfaced in the minds of people since the ongoing Israel-Palestine situation, was a poet and a cultural icon who was born in 1941 in…

The Curse of Feeling Too Much

if you're an overthinker, you'll deeply relate to this poem. Feeling isn't bad, no, it is what makes you human. But what about the feelings which are born out of…

Nizar Qabbani and the Delicacy of Pain

“The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it.” This quote by Nizar Qabbani struck something very deep inside – not just the immediate picture…

T. Liepke
14th Decrire L’Art Winning Poem

Painting by Malcolm T. Liepke Stranger than strangers perhaps our hearts know what they have become yet your mind likes to entangle, what I can't detangle Beloved, will another drink…