Tag: Experimental Verse
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An app that eats up most of my screen time: A Digital Confession
A haunting exploration of our digital dependency, this contemporary long poem examines how an app that eats up most of our screen time becomes both sustenance and parasite in our modern lives. Through thirteen scrolls of poetic narrative, the speaker documents the transformation from casual user to digital addict, questioning whether we should feel bad…
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A Place I Would Love To Live In This World: A Tanabata Meditation on Belonging
In the quiet hours before dawn, while the world still dreams of what it might become, I find myself standing beneath a sky heavy with unspoken promises. The Tanabata festival approaches—those celestial lovers Vega and Altair, separated by the Milky Way, allowed to meet once a year across a bridge of magpies. And like them,…
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A Little Chaos is Actually Good For Us
We build our lives with straight lines measure twice, cut once color inside the boundaries even when the boundaries are imaginary Our homes are museums of control books alphabetized by spine spices arranged by alphabet closets organized by season lives cataloged by spreadsheet We worship efficiency optimize our mornings schedule our breathing commodify our attention…
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The Moon Stayed, But You Didn’t
I looked at the moon. I whispered your name. It stayed. But you… you didn’t. The sky didn’t flinch. But I did. Again and again. This is the anthem of the ones who still set the table for someone who never knocks.
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Quid Pro Quo: A Ballet of Broken Mirrors in Binary Dreams
A poem dissecting the invisible exchanges we make in love, power, memory, and identity. Through surreal scenes and broken metaphors, it unveils the spirals of giving and taking—what we trade, often unknowingly, just to stay whole.