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Body Ocean: 24

Children's Works
Thank You:25 Poetics: 23 Irenium: 22 Songs of Spheres:21
Rock and Wild Velvet: 20  Mermaid Memories Silk and Gold: 19 Thymetaphor: 18 Ninnets: 17
Rhymennets: 16 Crimsonite: 15 The Moon Lines: 14 The Body Air:13
And Other Sonnets: 12 Between Prometheus and Orpheus (Sonnets):11 Situational : 10 Billboards and Boglands: 9
Illumine My Ithaca: 8 A Traveller's Guide to Pollypsychophinadalium: 7 Neverbridge Stone Roses: 6 Poetry of Ruins and Rains: 5
Published: Poetica Rainbow Ryder: 4 Published: The Geography of Time: 3 Published: The Son of Eternity:2 Published: Command the Moon: 1

Poetry

Poetry is the magic germinating out of the miracle of life

Thymetaphor

This would be the 18th Collection

 
A Rose-bud-poem

This be your lights and let me extract their essence
Into this music that I would like to master together
Let me be the wind of hanging Babylon and leave
Something bigger than the maps or the marks that

Divide the papers as though they are the skin of real
Thriving Earth! Oh Earth! The beatings of your heart
That no one sees or sings yet my heart is in symphony
With your beatings and notes gather in unison in me

That I cannot but write in each breath I inhale through
My tiniest of efforts smallest of steps and largest of
Praise that I can fathom out of my thoughts' expanse
Here I leave this: the earth a rose-bud-poem for you

We have no note to sing

This overwhelming magic of lights and dark
Fresh floods of wonders in dances of springs
Keep me spellbound and I never manage to
Grow old or anything other than bewitched

And they say: What's wrong! What's wrong!
Something must be wrong in you! Something
Must have been screwed up with a high force
Or must be causing your delayed rise up. Wise

Up little man and must you catch up with the
Great fall that we've all successfully soiled up
We've all grown up and moved onto grounds
Already death-kissed and dried, dusty, dusted

Why have not you yet crossed the land of living
And joined us in the graveyard: why haven't you
Yet risen to the tidy task and still tirelessly boring
Every breathing heart with this fuss to sing your

Notes. Come, join this expired signified dead
Lot of us and sing a song of note-less null-voids
Dark: just whinge, wane, doze, strut and howl
Must you sometime wake, rise up and sing death

Like us for there is a comfort in expanding death
Like this and enjoy a living state of his extra touch
It is lot less heavy than carrying all this euphoria
We are surely soaked by our wait for longer death

Lights' Metaphor

How does this expand into our layered self?
When we say hard as a hyena's teeth what
Do we understand of this hardness? What
Does this do? How does this map out lights?

This that supports our understanding's base
Which is pointing towards two directions
As though a traffic sign showing contra-flow
How does this work? How do we fathom it?

Yet we do and in truth we cannot function
Without this when I say you bring me this
That does not exist but the lights of my eyes
Where you write emblem of peace and heat

How would we function without these fragile
Floundering links so weak in strength like
Coral reef or the softest of skin of a newborn
Yet they are the steel of the truth that shines

We cannot grow or be or even true to what
We are without these: like this or that or so
And so because I will have to say: this being,
This women: she smiles lights' metaphor

Which makes sense to me and to her and
To you at the same time adding some salt
And soft touches of some form of lights
Curving the truth out like heat curves ice


To Read the Following Poems Follow the Links

The Inner Phantom

I Search for the Myth of Life

Like a Blown Kiss

Rainbow Lady

East Grinstead

Epyllion

Circularity of Our Understanding

Playing I do with Words

I’m no Macbeth

The Straight Line Theory

Keep Falling Starlike

Slaves of None

Through the Window

In the End

Theory of Spin

A House of Clouds in the Sky

The Bud  Dramatics

Sizzling

 

To Read More of Munayem Mayenin's Poetry

A Temple for His Music

Midnight Paris Metro carries the night
Within its double-decker breast busily
Shooting through the tunnel's pathways
Busy and sleepy people running rustling

Like wind blown leaves all fathomed in
In we go and out we come rush rolling
And there he was serenading the dusty
Air filled with floating footsteps playing

His Chinese musical organ some sort of
Violin sitting on a stool in front of his open
Hat gathering proceeds of people's pity
He plays closing his eyes and the music

Flows out rising upward like an invisible
Vine swinging in the free air of his mind
A poignant tune sad and deeply piercing
He plays and does not look in case his hat

Looks at him with the eyes of the coins
Reminding him he will have to come down
And count his fragmented printed notes
In silver and paper all polished porcupine

He carries on playing through and through
Ignoring the space and place where he was
Rooted: unwelcome harshed and fabricated
Oh! How I felt the need to kick that hat off

And plant a temple for his music to fall down
On and find a seat a home and there he is
At peace, happy, playing and would not
Need to close his eyes to stop seeing that hat

Neuley Pleasance

The first French phrase I fell in love with
Neuley Pleasance in full moon silver glows
Slight showers drizzling the midnight hour
Subdued silence holding a vigil in lunar kisses

Through the train window's aqua paint
Outside awash with a song of silver lights
She spoke anew and beauty born in soft
And gentle a musical opening a welcome

Neuley Pleasance where there was a state
Of mind that I held within suddenly came
Right in front of me: two notes mingling
She sang in midnight hour with the moon

The butterfly

The red mug candle radiated beneath the flickering lights

The flame flickered in the waves of housed wind
Glowing warmth and lights lifted the darkness out of the table

The liquid wax mirrored the flame
Extending reality to its double
Where the flame's image flickered with the source

Now the flames stood facing up
Flickering
Creating a beautiful butterfly fluttering
One wing in real and the other unreal
Joining together in propelling a butterfly
Into existence
And the housed wind weaves life into it

The candle butterfly now lives
And flutters in the housed wind
Gently it plays
In the areal garden that stays silent and watches

Landscape of the Song

That may be too ambitious a thing to aim for
To build a home in the landscape of a song?

Or have a dance plucked from the sparkles
Of your eyes where its choreograph flashes

Or may be it isn't so bad that we do have these
These unreal unusable gold just to remind us

That we are still attempting to unfold a living
That checks us in the end: the striving to mark

Or may be it is the only gold-the only sun
The expanse of the landscape of the song

To Read the Following Poems Follow the Links

The Inner Phantom

I Search for the Myth of Life

Like a Blown Kiss

Rainbow Lady

East Grinstead

Epyllion

Circularity of Our Understanding

Playing I do with Words

I’m no Macbeth

The Straight Line Theory

Keep Falling Starlike

Slaves of None

Through the Window

In the End

Theory of Spin

A House of Clouds in the Sky

The Bud  Dramatics

Sizzling

 

To Read More of Munayem Mayenin's Poetry

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