Favorite Poems of Rania Moallem
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I walk with a limp I never knew I had,
cheeks peppered with rosemary and... -
pollution and smoke, we
gift our lungs... -
sprawled across the bed, your bosom
rises and collapses, like your one deep... -
where the sun begins,
and you end... -
a little past midnight, and i'm spilling again -
in a drunken stupor, and i'm spilling all the... -
Turns that aren't taken;
now that I am lost, I wish... -
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where the dark perches - upon streetlamps
of alleyways and corners, the monotony of... -
and you -
where light was bountiful... -
where the sternum meets the clavicle,
i want you to rip it apart like a wishbone... -
fixated on your protruding collarbones,
i swallow the evening sun, bathing in the... -
You wield your
tongue like an assassin's... -
dawn is lit by the candle in your heart;
a mango-yellow stains the sky, and i... -
i wish you could see through my kaleidoscopic...
my skies are forever echoing your light... -
You were created with the
metaphors of my metered verse... -
at last
i can feel again... -
I tangoed to your fractured guitar,
and you placed your... -
with sardonic air, we bloom tulips and roses
on our tongues, perfuming every word to... -
the cries of the lark do me in,
carrying with it – the eastern winds... -
hand-picked wildflowers stamped into the letters
you’d rattle off, were easily one of my... -
i was not taught to be gentle;
the whirling winds outside... -
transparent words; the strings still dangle
from the same lips that sprouted them... -
the morning light drinks from your
eyes – a continuous wellspring of... -
resolve is a tree's
ability to keep on... -
I'm not quite as restless as the
last rainfall. Though some may... -
The rambling inside you continued,
while you sat in that square room... -
winter begets silence as the sparrows
struggle for warmth, the slowly-dying... -
I know that people aren't burdens
but I'm feeling burdensome... -
october crackles its’ warmth during
the nights. the streetlights illuminate... -
Yesterday, I walked along your steel teeth,
haunted yet comforted that I could see an... -
The sun shone majestically,
I was greeted by the morning... -
He was throbbing in my arms.
Then my broken heart... -
As seasons pass, there is a day,
I’ll visit where, your bones now lay... -
Going Out to Play In the World
(an autistic journey... -
I once was a feather
that clung to the leaf... -
the bed is empty
no jasmine nor lavender... -
Once upon a time,
I used to describe you as... -
If
[i <3 u] ->... -
Brilliant Sunshine
How may I write of her beauty... -
Much too beautiful to criticize
forgive me while I fantasize... -
Oh Rania,
what are you... -
It snows down lonely mountain.
Somehow the wind has brought me here... -
Sunshine, see the moon
high, yellow and waning... -
Within a violet lullaby
she sang to me so sweetly... -
Time is slipping from
my hands, such that... -
Blocks all the sunshine rays
Walks around with no words to say...
