breadcrumbs
a koi’s gulps,
insomnia
under the stars,
fireflies arrive
even after storms
Category: Poem
A heavy read
Come here and look at this dairy
There’s two people by the window
They’re fighting and one’s about to cry
Look closely now, the memories float
Like a ship in a bottle, how’d they do it?
Fit so much in a small place like that
If you turned the corner, you’d see
Faces melting away like butter
Morning Glory
daybreak &
the butterfly’s bed
is my door handle
it must have come far
wading the rainfalls
of silence
Dream catching
In the evining glory
In my mosquito net
A dream is caught
Seer
The canvas tight
about your heart
The weight of dreams
Painted on it
Let them say
One day the Gods discovered you
With a voice of wind
And aflame
A whole mountain in your eyes
Shifty
when the days are long
in warm socks
soft breezes haunt
changing my mind
shadows of night birds
dripping
violets dropping
as i walk
the bright moon arrives
Gossip
Stillness and solitude
I saw it, gossip
Nothing happened
In the whole empty meadow
This morning
The love life of a cat
Winter Delight
Trees dripping with rain
over the rafters
soon they’ll burn
under this passing winter moon
more darkness under the evergreens
in hushed voices, the wind
reads an old poem
Dead skin
in the winter rain
no messages yet
mingling with the stars
in a wide field of flowers
lilac eyed serpent
it’s old skin shed
Before coffee
frozen river
even snow on my pillow
snowstorm in the early dawn
night chill in the wind chimes
Rijul Ballal 