Poetry and Creative Writing for All

Kianni

I was born in the Indian subcontinent, brought up in Glasgow, Scotland. I spent the majority of my life trying to understand the world around me, both in terms of the tragedies and the joys life offers each of us. My works are inspired by the vast depth of emotion I felt through turbulant times and I feel it is a voice not just for myself, but for all people who have been in despair at some point through life.

Ashes of the Phoenix

Wretched heart of mines,
Must I live in these confines.
Sunset to sunlight,
Try as i might,
I cannot forget your face,
Yet of you there is no trace.

I take great steps,
submerging into the Depths,
Of deadened emotion,
For there is no potion,
That can cure my pain,
For life I have such disdain.

My eyes weep forever,
As life it did sever,
All we had strived for,
Strong as the hammer of Thor,
Together as one.

We turned the tides
Tore down walls on all sides.
Coiled in each others arms,
Serpents writing our own Psalms.

Till Life took a cruel turn,
My heart it did burn,
Fires stoked by every second,
For my death I had beckoned.

Burned out and utterly broken,
Ashes of love my only token,
Of what I had for you felt
One for whom my heart did melt.

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Forever Love

Throughout me does it run,
such an undescribably strong feeling,
Hearing all the lies spun,
My soul took a beating.

To protect me you did it,
In retrospect I admit it,

Though I loath what was said
and had so hoped instead,
That somehow, someday,
you would find the courage to say,
What it was that had happened,
To make you feel so saddened.

My heart you did steal,
MY fate you did seal,
For I knew that in loving you,
there would be much pain soon due.

The greatest and truest lovers,
I swear by the stars above us,
Could never so hold the other,
above and under the cover. 

The skin was melted, 
our love we felt it,
Heart, soul and mind,
Were truly one of a kind.

No longer are they with me,
those days of such joy and glee,
Instead I dwell now on the days to come,
There will be so much work that has to be done.

Perhaps someday I will be with you again,
And then I hope true love can finally reign.

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Immortal Love

Develish torment are you to me,
So dark, so mysterious
yet strikingly lovely.

Unable to resist, 
unwilling to desist
From loving you my darling
I give my soul to thee.
Truly am I yours for all eternity.

Your most gentle touch,
Imprisoning me,
Without reason or rhyme,
and I suggest,
For no crime,

Loving you my Dearest
I am an eagle in flight,
myself I think,
i did smite.

For without your love,
I am a clipped dove
and now I pray
to all the heavens above
To let me hold you someday,
my soul aches now
from the penance i did pay

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Soulless Embrace

So hard had I tried to come to grips,
with lies I heard spout forth from your lips.
Slowly ripping my hearts flesh,
Tearing at the meat whilst still fresh.

Why, My love, do you vex me so,
Pouring my blood onto purest snow.
You, the one whom I adored,
Left me alone and so ignored.

How could you my dearest one,
Not have seen what had begun.
My love always raging with a passion,
From you I did not see in such a fashion,
So cold, so uncaring,
Was this journey truly worth faring?

So pure was our devine love,
Now from you a lack therof,
The choice I must make, haunting me,
the words you spoke still taunting me,

No ointment is there for my sores,
The cuts I feel in all my pores,
Bitter tears run down my face,
No longer with you is my place.

Souless, heartless, cursed wretch!
My hands for you I did outstretch.
Delving deeper into the hollow,
Where you refuse to ever follow.

Empty, vengeful and terrribly vile,
you have made my heart sterile.
Could you not to me your love impart?
Then from your arms now I would not part.

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Betrayals of the Heart

My dreams eluded me,
My mind deluded me,
For in love I believed,
The truth never percieved,
Of what it was that you did,
Just as dangerous as a squid.

Setting my soul on fire,
My anger has yet to retire,
In my mind they burn,
Those images implanted firm.

Ingrained in my soul,
My heart now an empty hole,
betrayed and destroyed,
I could never avoid,
The pain and the loss,
The hurt forever my cross.

But also alas,
My love like dried grass,
still there though burned out,
From the rooftops i will shout,
Vexed, Forever yours my love,
Yours in this life and above.

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Submission Guidelines: Poems of no more than 30 lines in length each will be considered.