Rattled Souls: A Poetry Collection
Copyright © 2012 Jasveen Kaur
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CONTENTS
Examined
Camera-eye
Never Found Again
Marooned Witness
Hero Prophecy
Pursuing the Golden Sand
The Invention Speaks
Those Gallant Beings
Shattered Potential
Snare All Waves
The Abyss of Wounds
Inferno
Examined
The infinite cold slimy white walls
The abominable biting chill of the enraged… dastardly winds
Giant hawkish beings giving out orders
Oxygen dwindling
You’re now awakened
You’re now opening your eyes
Seeing
Deducing
Thinking
Concluding
Everyone surrounding you looks the same
A secretive journal is the only thing saving you from the insane
Emotionless
And zombified
From a routine that never stops
Night after night you hear when the facility door locks
Gradually counting the days off to be hopeful
But it’s not enough
There is an ancient brass horn trumpeting tunes of everyone’s sorrow
Proving your creative mind is blocked in this world
Blocked by complicated dark clouds of pure cruelty
And once you return to the familiar old things…
You rummage through a little cardboard box for an old multi-colored scrapbook
Filled with memories of the past
Noticing that face in the photograph
Sayin'
It can't be me…
Camera-Eye
Icy snow flakes float from Earth’s heavenly sky
Winged black creatures of destruction
Masked by the darkness; rule the night
The pirouetting wind screams out your name
You’re alone
Clocks tick tock no more and die
Sundials no longer function
Darkness somewhere chuckles at your fright
Like a Mad Hatter playing a sick game
Toying with you as he cracks his jawbone
His reddened shadow so evil it stabs at your mind
Crooked claws scraping against a wooden door
The noise is a vacuum cleaner
Sucking up all hope
With each step he jitters with joy
Secretive secure shelter you struggle to find
Your feet are cemented to the cold floor
Balding hair ghosts violently dodder
You’d prefer to cross a tightrope
But still Darkness arrives
And plans deploy
Nothing will assist an escape
Closer n’ closer he nears toward your cowering corner
The sight of him ruptures your internal organs
The light bulbs shatter
You’re breathless
You’re nonexistent of this world
Never Found Again
Stumbling up the street.
A nameless man arises.
His pockets empty.
With each step he cries—
Craving for past memories.
His lips dry as sand...
Fog joins the man’s path.
Lampposts flicker, on and off.
Dogs barking tonight.
He finds a brick wall.
He has no clue where to go.
He falls to his knees...
Marooned Witness
Plummeting down a hill
Jagged rocks
As deadly as broken glass
Split the skin
Drip!
Drip!
Drip!
Cherry-colored liquid seeps from my head
Bones shattered from the waist up
Eyes sealed shut
I shout for help
But I forget once again
No human being except me thrives upon this land
The wound
Deep like a valley
I will surely die
In a bottomless pit of mucky water
Crunch!
Crack!
Screech!
My word, what’s that?
Foul garlic circulates the air
Crunch!
Crack!
Screech!
I am immobilized
Something furry grabs my hand
An obsidian creature not of this world
Flashing green beady eyes
And gleaming crescent moon teeth
Carries me off deeper into the unknown
Hero Prophecy
Two deaths in a single year;
so, it is time to face your greatest fear.
Destiny is about to come here.
If accepted, you will lose those whom are near.
Don’t.... and the world’s fate will become all too clear.
Pursuing the Golden Sand
A God n’ Pharaohs’ stone life face
These markings are permanent and never will erase
So many cryptic artifacts to discover
But you wonder,
are these secrets too much for the world to uncover?
The Invention Speaks
My father was an accomplished man
He was the Creator
Constantly thou bragged of my brilliance, for:
I can extinguish a life within a second
I can fabricate a new future just as fast
I see past, what mortals cannot.
I have the power of Kronos.
I am constructed out of tungsten carbide.
Who or what am I?
Well, ladies and gentlemen that truly is for you to decide.
Those Gallant Beings
Mend the tattered fragments of a shriveled
Armored heart
Sketch the flawless plan to ascend the tower
Trample the petals of each...once irradiated flower
Catapult the blocks and scuttle the barricades
Eleven straight days of limitless havoc
Blank stares are buried
Consumed
Unforgotten
In mud
Shattered Potential
Life is like a glass bottle
Fragile
Imperfect
Sometimes full of joy
Sometimes full of emptiness
Either way it will fracture apart in the dumpster
And bend
Exactly how one’s life decision can lead into an unpredictable
Dead end
Snare All Waves
Squeezing the moistureless hand of sorrow
Till the next day; after tomorrow
He surrendered too soon
He just crashed out of time
You know the colossal ocean that poured right onto his soul
Used to be mine
The Abyss of Wounds
Clobber the frigid door with a fist
Launch a cragged rock in the mist
Paddle in the cascading river beyond
Leave that fossilized human bond
For a vision screeches they’re already gone
Inferno
O’ hear the whispers beyond ye graveyard dirt.
Expunge the chunks of coal in thy heart; leave unhurt.
Release the fire dancin’ across thy fingertips.
Speak to the forgotten till time rips.
In the blazing garden you have both cried.
Her last words of love have not died.
She didn’t leave without a memory of you.
All rumors are untrue.
O’ hear the whispers beyond ye graveyard dirt.
Rows of tombs engirt.
Murmur the poetry of her past.
Let these kindled red roses not be the last.
REVEALED: STORY BEHIND EACH POEM
Examined: A girl loses her identity after attending a deceitful camp where researchers put teens through several psychological tests....
Camera-eye: Darkness makes his presence known in a house...
Never Found Again: A man who lost everything he owned and cared for, suffers further catastrophe.
Marooned Witness: A marooned guy never was able to get off the island because of his newest eerie encounter.
Hero Prophecy: A young hero must tackle his horrid prophecy.
Pursuing the Golden Sand: Ancient Egypt holds many secrets that have yet to be completely unraveled.
The Invention Speaks: A Time Machine is unleashed.
Those Gallant Beings: Knight’s attempt to relinquish their king’s land back.
Shattered Potential: Life is often extremely chaotic.
Snare All Waves: In infinite pain and unable to fight.
The Abyss of Wounds: Runaway from the encompassing illusions.
Inferno: They promised to be together when they’d both wither away from existence, but she passed away before their dreams could begin.