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.
Letter 24 (X) – Day 24, November PAD
X marks the spot
of all things of interest, and of the anti-vote
It also starts some beguiling words
of foreign origin amusing our minds
Shockingly pronounced
Easily forgotten
No wonder X marks the spot of interest and of emptiness.
© Mariya K, 2020
Explanation – Day 23, November PAD
Do you need
an explanation?
Can’t you see
it’s harvest?
Unknown and greedy it looks.
Quickly, the night train!
© Mariya K, 2020
Birds – Day 22, November PAD
Terrible beak, powerful claws
high wind whirling with the wing sway,
dinosaurs as ancestors.
Singing angelically in the palace golden cage,
a multicoloured bird – a dinosaur descendant,
kept and admired as a symbol of innocence.
Be it as cute as Tweety or as awe-inspiring as the eagle,
the dinosaur lineage is there, if we want to see it.
© Mariya K, 2020
Tell – Day 21, November PAD
Teleworking
you are free to tell all ugly truths to
those you dislike.
Yet, who cares
after half a year in isolation?
You’d better tell lies
if teleworking is what you need
to tell the truth.
© Mariya K, 2020