Tag: poem

  • Notes on Selfhood, Consciousness, and Other Matters

    The lights: clinical.
    The feeling: mythic.
    The moment grows a halo.
    Even doubt turns ceremonial.

    ~

    I watch thought
    rise like sea-foam
    and vanish
    into the blue work
    of mind.

    ~

    my mind builds altars
    to clarity
    then sacrifices clarity
    to the altar

    ~

    in the cave of the psyche
    every echo is a message
    from a self
    still alive
    still waiting

    ~

    I looked for truth
    like a needle
    in a myth
    and found only
    the thread
    I was using
    to sew myself together.

    ~

    the feminine psyche is a forest
    you enter slowly
    until it recognises you

    ~

    the wound became
    a doorway

    ~

    I am the shimmer
    between two meanings
    that refuse
    to hold still.

    ~

    Silver logic
    with a bruise of snowdrop feeling.
    You call it composure.

    ~

    I read the air
    like augury—
    and it keeps spelling
    your almost

    ~

    the path isn’t linear
    it’s lunar
    it circles back
    to the same pain
    with more light in your hands

    ~

    The self is a fever
    that dreams itself well
    and calls it healing

    ~

    The mirror keeps asking
    what I’ve done with her—
    the girl I used to be.
    I tell her she’s sleeping
    inside a poem.

    ~

    I built myself
    from the ache upward—
    each bone humming
    the memory of before.

    ~

    reality feels agreed-upon
    until a dream
    unthreads the seams
    and the world
    breathes wider

    ~

    consciousness:
    a syntax of noticing
    that cannot stop
    editing

    ~

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  • Act of Worship

    We are here hunting haunting paradigm shifts
    while our exquisitely glistening unreality spills
    softly into the night in a secret shrine somewhere;
    seraphic dreams (holy, profane, & tender) merge
    yet meanings are not alike, they have multitudes,
    nuances, that are tied to dreams, tastes, & neuroses
    even when we strive for transparency,
    while we cling to a fairy‑tale sense of identity
    amid turbulent scenes, a delicate, fleeting glance
    reveals a much needed allegory of sweetness, of
    shadows redecorated by light beams, strategically.
    I’d like to fathom you as more than a projected inner ghost or
    an angel-minded muse or a presence enclosed
    in a cage of their own making or a synthesised archetype,
    I know you are real, but at times, for my own sake, I forget.

  • Her

    in her soul-healing era
    she is
    a magnetic muse
    her aura
    (mystical and rare)
    breathes in
    the soft spell of becoming–

    she moves through dimensions,
    vibrating at a
    dream-born
    frequency where the
    cosmic
    folds into her hands,
    pure-hearted (she loses no one,
    they lose her; their hands cannot
    hold the sky)

    her dreams are fragments of soul medicine;
    her whispers no longer embody
    the ache of the ephemeral.

  • Enchantment

    A girl, woven from stardust and daydreams
    whispers in the wind, moonlight-drenched,
    a constellation stitched into her skin,
    pulsing to the rhythm of celestial secrets.
    Starlit revelation, a gift draped in nebulae,
    her name an incantation, floating between realms,
    a spectre of enchantment

    in sync with the harmony of the universe.

  • Divergence

    It was at that precise moment that I felt
    we were suffering from the same affliction
    yet we were worlds apart,
    trying to find different cures.
    We were looking at the same thing
    but seeing something different,
    lost in our own perspectives
    shaped by specific flavours of pain.

  • The Force

    You don’t know me if you have no clue
    what it’s like
    to feel like a ticking bomb,
    to have a latent force within you,
    ready to devour you at any moment.

  • The engulfing

    Spiralling,
    A beckoning sign.
    I’ve been teetering on a thin line

    The catalyst-
    Something as simple
    as a knife twist,
    disguised.

    A reframing of purity-
    turned glacial.
    A false sense of security,
    dissipating.

    Withdrawing, inward
    submersion.
    It’s coming, one step forward-
    the possession
    the engulfing
    It’s on.

    The switch has been turned.
    The demon has been summoned
    I sense the first intimations of life,
    feel its claw without being touched,
    almost taste its void, hushed
    She picks up and licks the knife
    it turns into a magic wand in her hand
    the open wound morphs into a black hole
    I can no longer lick it to exorcise my self
    She is free to bleed into me, she’s in control
    The last protective layer is pulled off, violently.

    After a battle spree
    progressing morbidly, artfully
    I summon the will
    to lull the beast to sleep
    before I get silent and still
    I’m in it really deep
    yet once again manage to make it all seep
    out of me as I get ready to take another leap.

  • Siren’s prayer

    In my dream
    I was a siren, dwelling
    in a pool of blood
    filled with corpses
    of preys
    awaiting
    their starved predator;
    Musical, aquatic Scheherazade-
    unwilling witness, captive,
    or cold-blooded accomplice
    with a gnawing change of heart-
    so not so cold-blooded after all?
    Moon-intoxicated, I sensed
    your presence from afar,
    running, teeth-clenching-
    anxiety rising,
    clinging
    to the last tidal dream,
    I wonder – who am I
    supposed to
    hypnotise:
    the new live prey,
    the ghosts of the dead,
    or you?
    Reluctant to find out,
    I sing my melody, inwardly
    to drown out the sound
    of your blood feast.

  • Her Rebirth

    Haunted by Ophelia’s phantom,
    enraptured by vernal murmurs,
    she succumbs to dreaminess
    lost in the stream
    of consciousness
    carried away by Woolf’s whispers
    and echoes of myth from
    a scent of white Narcissus-
    fluid nostalgia in full bloom-
    she remembers her touch
    before the plunge;
    the sacred memory shatters
    underwater-
    her pale skin resurfaces-
    she is beaming;
    her alter ego withers
    underwater
    Nature witnesses
    an act of self-love.

  • A poem: Freesia girl

    I am intoxicated
    with the saccharine mystery
    in your warm gaze,
    your sylph-like appearance-
    a misty dream haunting
    idyllic paths
    inexorably, I find myself
    in the same spot
    under the tree archway
    as much as I try to escape
    how sweet-
    sickeningly sweet-
    my suffering,
    the uncanny feeling of being
    hypnotised to return,
    to haunt and be haunted
    I feel masochistic urges
    to re-enact scenes of
    long-lost delights
    of the senses
    delicately,
    then vigorously
    wistfully all along
    You never wither,
    I decay in the scent
    of nostalgia.