Category: Poetry
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To Be Known
To Be Known by A. Lo’vhenas Back at the time when my world was merely a box a corner covered with blankets blue light from the TV thick socks on my feet jazz records on the Victrola hoodie draped around me Outside the sky was crushing under its infinity I squirmed traffic whipped by at…
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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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