Shadows & Reflections, Line & Form

^{_{© Simon Berger, Unsplash}}

Finally
we are explorers.
Describe how
it was when
you climbed to the very top
then drank it all in.

Oxygen
fills you out again
expanding
your band width.
Here we make garlands of time.
Yes.  It’s a good wind.

*

Chalk it up
to experience
how you caved
to moments
of chasing dreams when dreams were
taken.  And yet, oh –

*

Vanilla
vapour seduction
not easy
nor sinless.
It’s just physiology
stealing my senses.  

*

The hauntings
the shoulda, woulda
coulda, the
ifs and buts
the is-it-too-late.  And yet
a ghost of longing.

*

Point.  Focus.
Zoom in.  Keep still.  Click.
Frozen frames.
Light bouncing.
Moments captured forever
as memory fades.

^{_{© N Nazir 2022}}

Written for Shay’s Word Garden where Shay brings us inspiration with Paige Ackerson-Kiely (words used: explorers, describe, oxygen, garlands, chalk, vanilla, vapour), and We’Ave Written Weekly, hosted by David, where the poet of the week, Sylvia Cognac, invites us to write a Shadorma poem (3/5/3/3/7/5) up to seven stanzas long, (it was on the topic of food but I’ve only just read the instructions properly so that bit didn’t happen, oops).