Poetry from the Bar
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Hello! My name's Gabriel and I'm currently pursuing an English Literature degree at the National University of Singapore. I have started this blog to share my thoughts and poetry with anyone who is willing to read them. Enjoy!
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
We were two candlelights
Kneeling precariously
On a bed of snow.
Flickering warmth,
Blinking embers,
We knew:
Even if the wind didn’t come
We’d sink before spring returns ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
The saturated coaster clung
Onto the glass; she didn’t notice it.
She held it to her nose and took another drag
Of its waning pungence.
She hadn’t tasted it; she hated whisky.
But it reminded her of him.
The coaster lost its grip
And kissed the counter.
She lowered the glass for the last time
And sighed ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
With freezing hands she caressed
Another ball of snow.
She saw a dimple in his chest
And gave to him his soul.
She drew his smile; it made her smile—
The dawn of her creation.
She left him there to watch the sun
Piercing through the horizon ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
I sought solace within the panorama
Atop the untrodden windswept terrace
Until I looked across and saw a girl
Sitting on the brink of an abyss,
Smiling to the world at her feet ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
Two truths and a lie:
I love you. I love you more.
A happy marriage ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
If you could choose,
She started, softly, spinning the globe
As if she controlled the world
With her index.
Where would you rather be?
What she didn’t know was that
Her body was the map and
Her kisses were stamps,
A different one each time,
A different experience, passion, pleasure, place.
Her hair like freshly fallen snow
Her gaze like the auroras
Her heart rhythms like the oceans
Her memory the permanence of photographs
Her.
The breathtaking beauty
Of infinite novelty
And the sardonic irony
Of goodbye.
Paris. Definitely Paris, I replied ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
For all the stories you told me about love,
You left out the one about the boy
On his knees
Collecting the fragments of his heart,
Gluing them together with his tears.
But how could you?
You were already gone ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
Some tremble at the reckoning
While others relish
Even if only for a twinkle
The sky’s fathoming
Of a turbulent mind ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
My palpitating heart occupied
The silence between each ring
Like a chiming pendulum at midnight.
You appeared with the rainy wind
Through the window,
Your hair a bouquet of autumn leaves
Fallen from tired branches.
The beseeching patter outside
And the imploring pounding within
Formed the melody for our tears, sighs,
And my apology.
I could still hear the chiming,
The poignant promise that
We’ll never share another tomorrow ..read more
Poetry from the Bar
4y ago
Maybe the hardest ones to love
Are the ones who once found love the hardest ..read more