Scribbler’s dream by Lawrence Darmani
Scribbler, The dream in your mind fills the shelf. When upon the shelf you gaze vacuum stares at you. There is your quill and parchment, but heavy are your hands Why? Because disuse numbs the wrist.
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Poetry
Verses on faith, love, hope, and the journey of life.
12 poems
Come into our shadows by Lawrence Darmani
Shadows of the earth plague our battlefield Sending arrows down our inner spines What used to be tranquility, now ruins Scattered about like dry bones in the valley Longing for veins, flesh, and life blood Famished riverbeds stripped of life While millions in vain search for abodes And you wonder why our tears flow?
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Harmattan by Lawrence Darmani
cracked crooked lips shelter sharp tongues sealed silent a jiffy while fine dust rains in all cracks in miserable mystique hearts
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Spreading Sunshine by Lawrence Darmani
A little sunshine into gloomy darkness Glowing tolerance that quells melancholy And peace comes sliding in, invited For wisdom says where words are many Mishaps come gliding in, uninvited
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A Matter of the Heart by Lawrence Darmani
When my heart decides My love, watch this happen It swells the blood of life Like over-ripe fruit Hanging too close to earth
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A Palm Tree Parable by Lawrence Darmani
You sway bravely in thunderstorms Firm with your million roots Sturdy like an unbreakable stump Abating the rushing winds With claws to uproot other trees That deprive the homes of roofs But you wave in jubilation Flouting the deadly twist
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Book Voyage by Lawrence Darmani
To you, bookshop keeper, my appreciation Who exchange your enduring volume— Hard or paperback— For my transient legal tender Though for the making of books As the Ecclesiast alludes There is no end Time I shall make by your door And on wings of words Escape into other worlds To you, dealer in books, my gratitude
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Born to Die by Lawrence Darmani
the manger was a disguised casket the wise men, mourners yet to come he was a dead man at birth bearing sorrows in a broken heart
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Borrowed Clay by Lawrence Darmani
I stare in the mirror and see me standing not unlike Adam the day God formed him out of worthless clay. Bare, bearing my prime frame altogether elated, saying this indeed is man.
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Dear Heart By Lawrence Darmani
Dear sullen heart I see you are sorely downcast Raising darkened cloud over me Are you about to rain? Pour down, my heart Tears are a cleansing balm
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Dew of Freshness by Lawrence Darmani
As I leave my crop farm— that is, the future barn I turn to behold my brethren— that is, our livelihood They stare back and bow— showing their grief No smiles, no flapping— no goodbye, no small talks
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Dry Bones By Lawrence Darmani
Sinews and flesh, veins are vain If the bones be unsteady and wobble In the valley they lie lifeless In the vilest of self Who to their bare chest Once pointed all but forefinger Declaring who are you?
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