Love Poem: Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
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Written by: Hiya Sharma

Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'


When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above 
infected ripples of time,
I question the 
chaos that claims
serenity through 
saline serenade 
of sirens, composed 
with midnight ink
across a mazed face 
of a starless canvas,
What if these coastal
conch confettis want to
skip heartbeats with
peridot rhymes inscribed
as reefy runes? 
will the cracking
waves of canorous 
currents synchronize 
stranded dreams
hanging on
mellow strings 
of my cello soul? 
For decayed dice of 
destiny rolls 
to swirl along 
bruised blue caves
of molten bubbles 
emanating dusted 
crystal tears from a
charcoal oyster throne, 
bejewelled with 
broken ballads, 
as voiceless verses
echo angst from ruthless 
tentacles of poisoned 
urchins, stinging 
opalescent scales 
that once upon a summer
sheltered and rinsed
pansy green 
pigmented pain
that sketched 
pantoums with 
moon-laced refrains
illustrating my 
delicate skies.

Breathing in 
raging hailstorms, 
I’m a damsel nymph 
of seven merlot seas, 
weaving a tapestry of 
camphorous conscience, 
flooded with sins 
of sundrop resins and 
my truth residing 
between the 
liquid-fire rings 
of white-silk seahorses, 
galloping and racing 
into blind aqua-herbs; 
My life is blanketed in 
harbor-grey smoke, 
clasped by eight 
sharp swords of 
erratic octopus’s oblivion, 
Whist being guided 
by narcissistic 
nightingale’s malignant 
sonnets, crisply crushing 
the ribboned hope 
which once blossomed 
like a chartreuse folklore 
in my aromatic 
spine and bones.

I weep violet blood 
and inshore tributaries 
upon marine wildflowers, 
As I gaze at the 
ablaze ships, 
crashing waves 
and lethally jostling
cacophonous cuckoos 
in the ocean-burial, 
to be diluted in 
pastel-blue atoms, 
as none but 
comet-chased 
sea-maidens;
my celestial soul 
carries a naive 
efflorescent  voice 
of all the leaden hearts,
which navigated 
black-tulip waters 
of wanton pirates, 
rephrasing regretful 
harmonies and 
covering morose 
ashes with 
constellations of 
unicorn-shells 
gliding in cranberry 
curls of sweven tides, 
surfing towards skyline of 
forlorn Poseidon.

I wonder, if ravishing 
rays of sunsets, 
embrace the 
shimmering shoreline 
where emerald sea-foam
floats as pearlescent 
picturesque poems,
embalmed in ivory
stains of yesteryears,
whilst we still
reminisce the monsoons
where crestfallen 
eagle rays whisper
sombre tales to the 
eyes of humankind,
that refuse to 
speak the language
of love and light.