Momentous, when you falter
and give in. Proximity.
You’re not so rigid
after all, unmasked.
I hold infinitude here
circling and circling. Take it,
my offering. Let’s go
chase some good trouble.
© N Nazir 2022
Written for Sammi Scribbles Weekend Writing Prompt: momentous, 32 words, and The Sunday Muse, image as shown.
Helpless Beings, image from Piccsy.com
A shuffling of ghosts
burn away in the midday sun
like smoke dissipating.
It was their time.
I scribble ink
onto paper and parchment,
how becoming it is
when it becomes something.
I’m partial to this.
The occasional
slam dunk of completion
is a sweet rush
but creativity
has always made my tides turn.
I drink my coffee
then go out
place a tobacco offering
by the tree
poised to welcome
a hoard of those
newly passed over.
© N Nazir 2022
Written for Shay’s Word Garden where Shay brings us inspiration with the beautiful poems of Susie Clevenger (words used: shuffling, ghosts, ink, coffee, tobacco, poised), Sammi Scribbles Weekend Writing Prompt: Dunk, 78 words, The Sunday Muse (image as shown), and Poets and Storytellers United with this week’s theme: Sweet.
Let’s run amok, you said
Ooh! Okay, I said
Fancy a picnic? you said
Or, I said
we can hang in my garden
and drink mead
with the cats.
I’ll come straight over, you said.
© N Nazir 2022
Written for Sammi Scribbles weekend writing prompt: amok, 35 words
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
– Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
How can I viably write about war
when it will only end in why
and what for and glum inertia
for the striving third world
children who’ll never know
what childhood means.
Somewhere
in the privileged first world
a sentimental Romeo plays the piano.
His only problem –
how to make inroads
with the citrus-perfumed
temptation waltzing his way.
He wonders if
she’ll leave with him
at midnight.
He is crestfallen
when she leaves
with his friend.
Ah well.
First world problems.
© N Nazir 2022
Written for Sammi Scribbles Weekend Writing Prompt: Viable, 82 words, Shay’s Word Garden, where we are given inspiration with singer/songwriter Tom Waits (words used: sentimental, Romeo, piano, temptation, waltzing, midnight, crestfallen), The Sunday Muse (images as shown), Poets and Storytellers United theme: war and peace, and Ragtag Daily Prompt: Citrus
I changed again in the night
a flight to a mayan dreamscape
not mine, but
a spidery vortex of others.
I flitted this way and that
as is my wont,
tweaked a scene here
pulled a string there
for dream lords are not so different
from time lords.
We all but stop the nightmares creeping in
though of course
there’s always a realm for boogeymen.
Finally
I enter a fantasy
at the other end of Yonderland
and watch as an opera of rainsong
falls in thundering symphony
from the petticoats
of the newly escaped
Eurydice.
© N Nazir 2022
Written for Sammi Scribbles Weekend Writing prompt: Opera, 95 words, The Sunday Muse (image as shown), Poets and Storytellers United (Prompt: to write from the point of view of a TV character), and Ragtag Daily Prompt: Flight
Sunra Rainz 