A potpourri of emotions
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“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The elongated nights and their shapeless arrival
tiptoeing of these broken dreams
along the shattered corners of my heart
my goblin shaped nightmares
hiding around the corners
and monsters in the corridors wailing and calling my name
the nights stretch itself and cover every iota of my existence
the thin membrane of it
covering my soul
reminds me of the darkness in the womb
/but that felt safe wasn’t it/
sometimes the solitude
brings its own tranquility
and you get duped by the darkness
those broken dreams picks
at the black of my obsidian eye
where the dreams are falling down in the abyss
sitting at the edge of the darkness
where my own hands feel foreign to me.
Photo by Dmytro Tolokonov on Unsplash
–Megha
So happy and excited to share my first ever collaboration with one of my favorite poets Chuck from The Reluctant poet. It stemmed from the micro poetry Regret and lead to the beautiful extension by Chuck. Please read and leave your precious feedback in the comments section.
(Megha)
Those Unsent Love Letters
Would Have Made You Fall
Helplessly In Love With Me
(Chuck)
Well, Not Really
They Would Have Made You
Fall In Love With The
Portrait Of Me
My Words Painted
In Love Letters
And I Only Regret
The Comet
That Was You
Flew Out Of My
Galaxy
Before We Could
Longingly Gaze
Into Each Other
Eyes
For A Thousand Years!
Copyright © 2018 Megha Sood And Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved
Dear friends,
After taking part in a Haiku contest, I got inspired to make an attempt at writing haikus.
My fellow bloggers, who are well versed in this poetry form, please read and leave a comment about my humble attempt. Will mean a lot to me.
Update: Emily of Musings of electric Soul has kindly pointed out the extra syllable in my first line and Walt from Walt’s Writing has been generous enough to help me fix it.
Thanks so much, dear friends. This is the essence of being in a writing community and constantly learning from each other.
Happy Blogging!
Megha Sood
A collaboration with my soul sisters always polish that sliver of light in my soul and makes it shine a little more. I'm so thrilled and excited to be part of this multi-part "I'm the woman" series featured on the Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen. You can read my part here and don't forget to visit … Continue reading Poetry published in Heretics Lovers and Madmen – “I’m the woman” collaboration
My poem ” I’m the woman” featured on the Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen as multi-part series. Check it out.
I’m the woman
your mother warned you about
with her unabashed truth
her unfettered glance
towards your banal lies
who can topple you from your ivory tower
with that crown riddled with
a generation of lies
I’m the woman your
your mother warned you about
with her gleaming face brighter than a thousand summer sun
and her stance stronger than the tallest of the mountains
her soft touch even softer than the milky frothy moonlight
one who will leave you in writhing pain
foiling your attempt to struggle her desires
and suffocate her truth
an exercise in vain
I’m the woman
your mother warned you about
who births and burns down the life
with equal ease
the one which can even dance to your flirty tease
but your mistake to take her desire
as a request for servitude
with break and crumble
your puny existence
you so boisterously assume.
Megha…
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This poem is in continuation of the micro poetry. Read it here
“With a tide rising in your heart
and a gale rushing in mine,
we brewed a
perfect storm together”
–Megha Sood
Our wild emotions were brewing
slowly and surely
simmering and rising to the surface
ready to be spilled
poured out of our hearts
where it was becoming
a fruitless task
to keep us apart
The tension building up
the synergy which is working
all these pent up emotions and desire
setting up our souls on fire
are rising slowly and surely
till it devours us completely
That fateful fusion
is about to happen
which opened the floodgates
and create a rip in the time
and space
a moment forsaken
Our decision to completely ignore it
willfully turning a blind eye
has made the situation so critical
we never were able to safeguard
the rare combination
that has happened at once
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Have you ever looked
into the eyes of Buddha
a reminiscent of the
eternal calm and serenity
they wake you from the
deep slumber of ignorance
the facade of the
the life you are living in
partially open
partially closed
full of divinity
his aura radiating
from his face
slowly and surely
and calm which slowly gets
infused in
the milieu
like the ripples in the pond
symmetric and centric
the thoughts are percolating in our minds
and gets imbued in our soul
if we meditate
and blinds the dissonance
birthing in our tumultuous minds
in the chaos
of these moments
we will empower the tiny buddha
living in our core.
Devereaux Frazier and Beth Amanda are currently hosting the Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge which was started by our star writer Christine Ray. We hope to offer all of you something that will spark your creativity and willingness to participate.
The prompts are designed to be quick challenges that can be written in 10 to 15minutes, inspire you creatively, are fun, and get everyone interacting. Please post your response to the prompt in the comments below and show your fellow posters some love and support. All members of the Go Dog Go community, including Baristas, are welcome to participate. Feel free to share this post on your own blogs and/or Facebook.
Today’s prompt:
The theme or word to use is “serenity.”
Come read this brilliant poem from a talented writer.
I am the Woman
your Mother warned you about
the one whose darkness
was hidden below the sunny faux finish
of excellent manners
honor roll grades
my monster heart hidden
so well that no one noticed
me drowning
in my self-hate
I am the Woman
who cut my teeth
on black leather
and handcuffs
control a requirement
for my release
I am the Woman
with scrolls of black ink
symbols of resistance
of resilience
etched inch by inch
on my skin
a reclaiming of a body
that was not always
my home
I am the Woman
who casually mentions
my ex-lovers
male and female
at the holiday table
pass the gravy, please
I am the Woman
who finally started to speak
silence is not golden
truth is silver
and has wings
Christine E. Ray lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A former Managing Editor of Sudden Denouement Publications, she founded Indie Blu(e) Publishing…
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Hello friends,
So delighted to know that two of my poems have found a home in the Poppy Road Review. Many thanks to the editor, Sandy Benitez for supporting my work. Please read my poems “Of Dust and Pain” and “Perspective” and leave your valuable comments.
Happy blogging!
Megha Sood
On the special day of Daughters' day, I want to share this poem with my readers. Those bony and scrawny fingertips scrubbing and scouring every single piece of dust and soot nestled between my toes and puny soles imbues me with the moonlight sheen and the milky smell I was born with You slowly and … Continue reading Pure
So thrilled to be featured in the first-ever anthology curated by Christine Taylor of the Kissing Dynamite poetry journal. My poem "Bless us lord for the sin-free life we are living" has been featured amongst the works of 27 other contemporary writers. A collection of poetry by twenty-eight contemporary writers, Lift Every Voice pays homage to … Continue reading Poetry published in the anthology “Lift every voice” by Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press
Learn and learn to love
how the lonely hands discern
themselves and looks for completeness
loneliness,
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If only you could drink my love from the dark moon if only I could save the hurt and jealousy I have buried deep in my chest as the heat of the thousand suns and shower you with my love, so divine if only I can shower you in this pale blue milky moonlight to … Continue reading Nexus ( love poem)
I’m getting enraged
constantly irked by the
inconsistencies in life
bothered by
the roadblocks
ups and downs
and inequality
small glitches
and bumps
and those
occasional stops
which hinders
forms a patina
to its
constant glow
knocks down the
Hung between
the tranquil and the turbulence
leaves with me
the frustration
I abhor
Let the melody
play uninterrupted
with no breaks and stops
Let it give the symphonies
in our lives, a home
Let’s give the ever brewing,
temerity
in our lives
a pause.
–Megha
Between the spaces of my heartbeats I have knitted you a home Come sit and feel cozy nestled deep in the embrace of my soul oozing with the overflowing love that elixir gushing out of every single pore of my self dripping from the fingertips Come, get washed up in the fountain of sweet milk and honey … Continue reading Between- a love poem
My list of publications for the month of June/July/ August featured on the GoDogGo cafe
Megha recently shared with me her published works for June, July, and August. As you can see, she has been quite busy! Please take a moment to check out her published works, and also congratulate her on her accomplishments. And remember, these are great sources for YOU to be published should you wish to pursue it. YOU ROCK MEGHA!
1. Book Review Published on Fly on the Wall Press
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/06/30/book-review-bad-mommy-stay-mommy-by-elisabeth-horan/
2. Visual Versehttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/06/30/poetry-published-on-the-visual-verse-vol-06-chapter-8-sustenance/
3. Spillwordshttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/poetry-published-in-spillwords-an-exercise-in-futility/
4. Heretics, Lovers, and Madmenhttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/06/02/the-color-of-our-rights-a-reproductive-rights-collaboration/
5. Elephants Neverhttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/07/30/the-day-begins-again-published-in-elephants-never/
6. Free Verse Revolutionhttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/07/26/fatal-attraction-megha-sood/
7. Sudden Denouementhttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/introducing-megha-sood-my-horror-movie/
8. Madness Muse Presshttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/07/04/3-poems-by-megha-sood/
9. OPA Anthologyhttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/three-poems-published-in-the-online-anthology-by-our-poetry-archiveopa-spirit-of-nature/
10. Poetry reading at Jersey City Writers for poetry selected for the “Overcoming Limitation”https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/poetry-reading-for-thejersey-city-writers-overcoming-limitation-series-at-the-west-gallery-nj/
11. Award function at NAMI NJ for a statewide poetry contesthttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/06/17/poetry-award-function-for-national-alliance-on-mental-illness-nami-state-level-3rd-position/
12. Print Publication in the Dual Coast Magazinehttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/08/19/poetry-published-in-the-dual-coast-magazine-issue-no-7/
13. Olive Skinshttps://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/poetry-published-in-the-olive-skins-a-thief-called-grief-and-invisible/
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It's an absolute honor to be featured in the Dissident Voice. So thankful to the senior editor Angie Tibbs for accepting my poems and featuring them. Dissident Voice is an internet newsletter dedicated to challenging the distortions and lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves. The goal of Dissident Voice is … Continue reading Poetry published in the Dissident Voice-“True lies”
Something really exciting going on at Heretics lovers and Madmen
Barista Christine Ray and Kinda M. Austin are excited to announce that they will be hosting a Quotable Poe Challenge this October on Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen.
Choose a prompt (or ten) and write a poem, prose or piece of flash fiction inspired by the quote. Submit to hereticsloversmadmen@gmail.com, and include a brief bio if you are comfortable. Feel free to include any links to your blog, and/or other places you publish your writing.
We look forward to reading your submissions!
My response to the Tuesday challenge phrase– MY mother told. Do share yours
“My mother told me
that dreams are not made of the strong resolutions
and hard-hitting goals
but is nurtured by the soft hands with the filigree touch
which keep them warm in the cold winter nights
and gives them sustenance in the scorching summer daysMy mother told me
that getting hardened by the atrocities of life
will not take you nearer to the goal
but smoothening and softening our rough edges
a kind smile
and a gentle look will glide you towards your goal.My mother told me
that there are enough who can reach the destination
and can have loft goals and desires in life
but the one who does it with humility and with kindness
is the one
you should really adore.–Megha Sood
Devereaux Frazier and Beth Amanda are currently hosting the Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge which was started by our star writer Christine Ray. We hope to offer all of you something that will spark your creativity and willingness to participate.
The prompts are designed to be quick challengesthat can be written in 10 to 15minutes, inspire you creatively, are fun, and get everyone interacting. Please post your response to the prompt in the comments below and show your fellow posters some love and support. All members of the Go Dog Go community, including Baristas, are welcome to participate. Feel free to share this post on yourown blogs and/or Facebook.
Today’s prompt:Finish the phrase “My mother told me…”
Happy Writing!
Megha's World 
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