NovPAD – Day 4

Nerves

My mouth will stay shut
For the things I could shout
When seeing red are not the things
I’d want to remember myself saying.

My eyes will stray to the side
For the views which make me raise my brows
Won’t be looked away by the arrows I toss
And I won’t need to swallow
The shame of remembering it.

Ah, the nerves arrogant people have!

© 2024, soulmary

NovPAD – Day 3

Correspondence

Creating funny animals with blue and pink balloons in
Order to display the celebration of
Renaissance or our
Recreation, we, indeed, are trying to
Escape the depth of mortality, or just
Suspend it for a while.
Pretending we are joyful increases
Our pain and then we
Need to disperse the
Darkness that stands for our lives’
End in order to prove the
Nether realm of reality actually
Corresponds with the brightness
Eternally beaming from our hearts.

© 2024, soulmary

NovPAD – Day 2

Disguise

Wearing this frightening costume
I try to chase my fears away
Yet, it attracts some more my way.

I don’t trust the fairies to help unveil
My deeply covered mystery.
And still, not willing to let go,
I plan to wear the costume some more.

© 2024, soulmary

NovPAD – Day 1

Yay, November is here! Time for the unforgettable NovPAD and NaNoWriMo where I plan to participate again. Day 1 prompt is quite romantic – Before You Leave. My difficulty is that right now I don’t have the sad angle, so I chose to mention my favourite animal.

Before You Leave

Image: mine

Let me tell you about the panther
napping in the back yard.

Waiting for my caress, she sleeps
all day and hunts all night.
A lovely creature hungry for life.

Before you leave,
take a minute to admire her
and to consider what might make you stay.

© 2024, soulmary

Exit – Day 30, November PAD

Enter the protection mask!
Xerox it for cheaper use
Inside, I anticipate
Terrible futures, so many of them.

© Mariya K, 2020

 

Wanting the Power to Keep Up – Day 29, November PAD

For all struggles there’s a plan
bringing you where you want.

Not enough, though, not at all.
I’m still wanting the power
to keep up with the plan.

© Mariya K, 2020

Remix of Nightmares – Day 28, November PAD

Every nightmare has the essence of a dream
In a distant day and land
Beyond all we can see or touch.

Still curious about the rule, about the rhythm,
I listen carefully to what nightmares say.

They scream in silence,
as the sleeper will provide the noise.

They also speak abundantly,
but I don’t know a tad of their language.

© Mariya K, 2020

What’s Next – Day 27, November PAD

Slowly, autumn fades.
The bare branches rattle –
no home for the birds.

© Mariya K, 2020

Thankful – Day 26, November PAD

Yellow grace dancing
in swirling serenity
Slowly, autumn fades.

© Mariya K, 2020

Exaggerated – Day 25, November Poem-A-Day

Hateful and wishful to cut all links
to teasers and trolls;

Live-streaming to fear from the rat race
chasing the thunder;

Peaceful indulgence for cherry-pie loves
and all the accompanying college-girl spite
tires me out-of-the-worldly
bringing the cosmos together on this very plate just under my nose.

© Mariya K, 2020

Process notes: I suppose, with the month’s end coming, I get more tired of poeming seriously. So, this is just a playful word weaving.