August 23, 2013
by Devina

(Girl by Rachel Roth, click to see more)
I wonder about the people around me
About their hidden faces, their jutting angles
About what their wrinkles, facets and scars hold
Sometimes I do not think about the little things at all
Of time, there isn’t enough
We cannot all afford to be dreamers,
But dream, we must
*
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August 13, 2013
by Devina

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Poetry Challenge: Loop poetry
Do you remember
Remember that ancient wind
Wind that gave breath to the forgotten forests
Forests whose enchanting song woke my soul
Soul that saw the dawn shimmer dancing
Dancing the night away
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July 18, 2013
by Devina
(‘Peaceful’ by Dave Mills, via Fine Art America)
She weeps not in her own sorrow
Often though she does not of sadness at all
Tears are salty and wet
Not tainted by emotion
Only until after being spilt
So in her great xylem,
A warm lake waits calmly
So by drops
They would sprinkle forth
As she heaves and sways
Her delicate boughs
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July 5, 2013
by Devina
Poetry Challenge: Oxymoron
He took to the darkness like a moth to flame
Always found peace in the chaos
Flames licked him with an icy tongue
A calm sort of desperation
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June 27, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest)
I run, chased by a legion of devil horses
My destination, an elusive oasis
My breaths escape me and return
In hungry gulps, desperate impulse
My numb feet thunder on, stunted nurons
I lunge forward in a burst of speed
I hear them snorting and at my heels
Over impossibly high boulders
Nearly fell flat on my face
Almost there …
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June 20, 2013
by Devina
Young woman in bloom –
Boys don’t know, it hurts so much
Drama is murder
© Devina S.
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June 16, 2013
by Devina
Under siege
Trees, bees, flowers, seas
More than nature’s ornaments
Clean air and precious vittles
They bestow unto us, life
Threatened by ungrateful lot
© Devina S.
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June 9, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest, click to see)
Calm sky. Vast shadowy oceans.
Piercing haunting eyes.
The smell of fresh linen. The cry of a bird.
Baby boys. Ice and wind. Tears.
Lazy late summer evenings. Primary school uniforms.
The Oxford dictionary.
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May 31, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest)
I stand on the very edge
Of the cliff that lorded over
The lush pine forest
Like nothing I’ve never seen before
Just a plummeting step away
But I’m not like that
I’m here for the life of it all
I might as well be at the end
Of the world
An endless green horizon
Blessedly untouched
I revel in the purity
Of this emerald sea
Rippling of branches
Waving at the sky
With the wind fueling the tide
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May 29, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest)
Who can I be but me?
A spirit of a bird trapped in a cage
An old soul in a young shell
Living in a new world
A collection of old rock music
A shutterbug stuck in one place
Having hardly a face
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May 12, 2013
by Devina

Dear Myra, heartland of my mother
With your air so crisp and cleansing
I inhale as I zing by on my way to school
Your elegant emerald gown trails on the land
The sun strokes golden fingers through it’s soft fluttering veil
Lighting it up from within as if with sprite fire
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May 5, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest, click too see)
Who’s your first love the girls ask me
Music, said I
The boy isn’t worth the mention
I cringe at the memory
How pathetically stupid I was
But the sweet sound of music
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April 27, 2013
by Devina

(via despaircommunity321.com)
Your eyes, they aim at my soul
Your hands, they come closer
Don’t touch me
Please, I beg
No!
…
I wake up
Drenched in sweat
The memory of your slimy hands
Makes my skin want to crawl away
To leave the bare death white bones of me
Still quivering under your malicious gaze
I hate you.
You cannot comprehend how much.
*
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April 25, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest, click to see)
You are
The hot chocolate blend
I’ve been searching for
All this time.
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April 17, 2013
by Devina
Poetry challenge: Nonet
Technology is our future
Humans need not think for themselves
Easier life, at what cost?
Metal minds metal brains
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April 13, 2013
by Devina
Poetry challenge. Nonet.
Within the pages of the book, now
I see the world the ink paints me
Oh that such wonders exist
Great dragons, magic, sprites
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April 3, 2013
by Devina

(Albert Lynch (Peruvian artist, 1851-1912) A Young Woman. Via Pinterest, click to see)
Girl child, listen to your mama
Listen to your daddy
You might scream and shout
But more often than not they know
What they’re talking about
Because once upon a time
They were where you are
Young, new, untried and not yet at your prime
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March 29, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest, click to see)
It’s a quiet day today, for a Friday
But it’s a nice thing to know people still
Observe some of the old ways, reverence and worship
I’m not kin of the people of the cross but I respect
And I even believe
A quiet Friday, so much like my usual Sundays
Spent at my cube, alone in my corner at work
A peaceful time to contemplate all the complexities of the living
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March 25, 2013
by Devina
Poetry challenge: Easter bunny.

(Via Pinterest, click to see.)
Little bunnies, big bunnies
Pink and blue, yellow and so cuddly too
Fluffy things the are
Comes our way this time of year
Big bunnies, little bunnies
Easter bunnies are hoppin’ around the corner
Be quick! Oh he’s gone now
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March 3, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest)
Ribbons, blood, love, roses
Peppers, pain, excitement
Rage, a shade of courage, her lips
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February 28, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest)
… But do you?
You say you see the girl with the glasses
The one always talking about books or reading them
You say you see the kind of person I am
But do you?
You see your daughter
I honestly don’t what you see
But do you really suppose it’s me?
You say you see your sister
Do you actually see someone
Worth looking up to or someone
Who doesn’t seem to care?
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February 24, 2013
by Devina
I remember Pooh, that silly bear
Then there was Tigger, the one and only
That grumpy rabbit Rabbit
The donkey to whom the glass was half empty
And a few others who call the Hundred Acre Woods home
They were all a part of me, that window in time
That floods in a warm sunlight
The rays felt like years ago
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February 17, 2013
by Devina
Poetry challenge 3

(via Pinterest)
They scream and they fight
Foreign labourers are stealing their jobs
Would the government hear their plight?
It’s ironic though, I think,
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February 8, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest)
The best part of the Night
Is the sight of Dawn
Her approach
A shy hesitant step
Then a bold advance
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February 5, 2013
by Devina

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Plastic flowers on the wall
Pinks, blues, yellows
Lovely colours all!
See them stand so proud and tall
In what had seemed to be an eternal spring
It’s in the fall when the pride consumes all
The times, the come and they go
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February 1, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest.com)
For Poetry Challenge 2
He carries a whiff of diesel
Denim smeared, greasy to the touch
Beads of sweat cool on his sun baked face
Good shirts come home from the fields
With soft frayed holes and a scent of green
A sure thing to send Ma’s ire up
Added to the broken saucer and cup
The raggedy man,
A listener, a speaker,
Father mine,
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January 10, 2013
by Devina
Sleepy feet are hell to beat
Heavy and numb
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January 8, 2013
by Devina

(myfreewallpapers.net)
In this single moment
So many things can happen
Altering life as we know it
In so many different ways
Live this very moment
As best as you can
It’s different, unique
Unlike any other and always
Subject to change
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