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Russian scholar by way of Boston University, current DC boy by way of New England, baby!

  August 2021     2 years ago

Submitted Poems 9 total

Rosewater

Enter rose water. The sentinel.
Cascading over me like the Maui surf.
Protect me, for vultures lurk around me.
Sweet, billowy fragrance, you encapsulate my mind drops.
Rose water drops from your flowers.
Delicate, soft petals on my...

by Monal M Patel

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To Have Not

Days go by...sunny, warm days.
But I'm cold inside, wanting to see you.
I want to understand what changed.
Without that, I'm stuck in cold, damp rains.
\How can you turn on me so fast?
Why can't I make a moment last?
You are in my head all...

by Monal Patel

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To Have

The day you left me,
it was like a mystery.
You never let me in.
Your heart I could never win.
\You did me wrong,
how can I be strong?
You took something out of me,
and I am trying to forget your touch...
\The time we spent remains in...

by Monal Patel

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An Accident In Paradise

Desire creeps past,
tumultuous, uninhibited desire,
that which seeps into the skin
corroding the very soul.
It creeps past the unrelenting darkness,
marred by a seething compulsion,
to scathe an innocent bystander.
Innocence creeps further. ...

by Monal M Patel

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Wasteland

Perplexed sitting
Beneath sunlight
In the early morning
Shades on, hiding
My eyes which tell
The story of an addict.
Dazed wondering
The purpose of my actions
Hindered blazing
My path before me.
Erasing a future yet
To come
Only for a...

by Monal M Patel

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Latest Comments: 1 total

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awww, i feel ya pain. loss of love, hurts like no other

2 years ago

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