PostsCommentswarpedpoetic in #hive-126152 • 9 days agoThe Devil Comes: A Poem and ReflectionI wrote this piece immediately after seeing the short film titled THE HOUSE IS BLACK by Forugh Farrokhzad, an Iranian Poet and film maker. The film reflected the suffering…warpedpoetic in #hive-167922 • 15 days agoSalvation was too High to Come in through the DoorI dream of a surplice and plastic plants trapped inside curtains covered by electric lamps. There the room grows big with its ghosts and sleeps. Who will gently open the…warpedpoetic in #hive-126152 • 17 days agoLeaving the Single Life A lot of persons have expressed their bewilderment at my sudden decision to get married. No one is as surprised as I. Sometimes I sit back and wonder about how I moved from being…warpedpoetic in #hive-161465 • 24 days agoSheShe's pretty but strange/smooth the skin/the veil/whittled down to smile/to mask the tide/the fever/ the haze/to move inside the flesh like something wrong/the wrong…warpedpoetic in #hive-150329 • 25 days agoIt's a Sunday This is more of a meditation on Sunday, on today, on life. I wrote it on an app and for the life of me, I can't seem to be able to copy it. There are things that the beauty of a…warpedpoetic in #hive-126152 • 28 days agoRE: MUSIC FOR WRITERSIndeed you're so right, my friend @trucklife-family. I have recently discovered how music, surprisingly, classical music, which I didn't bother with before, moves me when…warpedpoetic in #hive-126152 • 29 days agoMusic for The Writer I love to rap music. I like the cadence, the rhythm, the word play, the way the words make the music bounce, the internal rhyme. I love it still but I recently times, I have…warpedpoetic in #hive-126152 • last monthNote To SelfWaking up each morning takes some grace. I don't mean grace in the biblical sense but rather grace in the sense of something taken for granted. Sleep, I consider to be the little…warpedpoetic in #hive-167922 • last monthPEAKY BLINDERS: A SHORT REFLECTIONI have recently started watching Peaky Blinders and I find the show quite interesting. I like the gritty nature of the show but what interests me the most is the language.…warpedpoetic in #hive-126152 • 2 months agoWARPEDPOETIC AT 70A long time ago, being ranked 70 on Hive was a big deal, at least for me. It meant one is an OG. While in those days, accounts with a reputation of 70 were often owned by whales…warpedpoetic in #hive-161465 • 2 months agoIN MY ROOM THE WALLS MOVE ONSometimes this cracked wall turns its blind eyes on me, my body weighted down by the mattress carrying the floor. I dream of a quiet life beneath this world. A life that…warpedpoetic in #hive-167922 • 3 months agoREFLECTIONS 1I know how morning wakes & makes supple its limbs again, how it rubs the worn down nubs of our sleep & enough static to make light enters our eyes & gently like a prehistoric…warpedpoetic in #hive-161465 • 6 months agoSleepwalking*Cold & lonely, the wind plays against my skin. It licks the damp foliage of my lips, It takes my breath away. Who dreams of a flower that has drunk beauty in the anguished…warpedpoetic in #hive-150329 • 9 months agoDear Diary 2Today is another day with solitude. The lady is out of the house. I walked with her to the bus stop, took videos of her as she moved. This woman moves. Dust moves in the air like…warpedpoetic in #hive-126152 • last yearMORNING RANTS OF A WRITER WISHING HIVE WAS A TRADITIONAL BLOGGING APPDespite the numerous interactive and immersive opportunity that are abound on the hive ecosystem, writing is still king. Yet, it is the most undernourished form of content…warpedpoetic in #hive-170798 • last yearMIRRORWhen the web of breath had settled into his body, finished and untangled from the air moving outside all things, I covered the sharp glint of his now shallow eyes with the wet…warpedpoetic in #hive-161465 • last yearSuddenly, the pull towards adulthoodNow that the river leaps towards sunlight, naked & untroubled, the river grass gathered about their roots still new to the day’s heat, the children have come out like…warpedpoetic in #hive-167922 • last yearHow the son becomes the parent. #Inkwell Prompt: Timefair warning: references to bullying and corporal punishment. *The past comes to you sometimes, especially now when i see myself turning grey and my parents growing fainter…warpedpoetic in #hive-150329 • last yearGraftLast night, while the hour held us in its slow grasp & our bodies plunged deeper & deeper into the soft untroubled mud of sleep, I heard you rustle inside me like a dove…warpedpoetic in #hive-161465 • last yearTHE MAKING OF A PERFECT MEMORY Smooth as surgeried lips, your skin spreads its thin voice over the quiet colour of night. Sleep like a ghost rises from the contours of your breath gently as if a beast…
