Category: Poetry
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The Lamp
The Lamp by A. Lo’vhenas — Inspired by Coleman Barks’ translation of Rumi’s “The Guest House” In this bodily house, the Soul welcomes all simultaneously: the joys, the pains, the sorrows. Untempered by judgment, it brews tea for those ailing, celebrates excitement and grace, and offers blankets to the weary, its hearth of love and…
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Edna
Edna by A. Lo’vhenas inside the brain buzzes and stumbles down stairs into an abyss s o m e w h e r e thoughts scatter effort is futile memories numb mind is aloof once one a spirit and a skeleton befuddled by a brain OVERRIDDEN by a two-faced seraph / serpent who keeps the…
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Trivial Devotions
In “Trivial Devotion,” A. Lo’vhenas explores the essence of various societal constructs, questioning their true meaning and significance in human experience.
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The Weary Architect
The Weary Architect by A. Lo’vhenas Press these lungs with a flat-iron Weave these veins with steel wire Place a clamp around this skull And crank it tighter, tighter, tighter Suffocating with an oxygen tank In touch but out of reach Stifled by the unspoken On trial for a steady drum beat Fingertips slicked with…
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Uncaging
Changes, changes set fear out on the run no longer will it bar me from what I’m meant to become. · · ─ ·𖥸· ─ · ·
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