Tag: poetry

• the walls of my room

  the walls of my room don’t talkif they do, promise me you won’t break them. the walls in my room don’t talkif they ever do, they will tell you my story my stories of 3amwhen i told them my secrets. my stories of 11pmwhen i mourned myself to sleep. my stories of 7amwhen i woke…

  Prena subba

  March 12, 2022

  the death of tomorrow

  death, depression, emotion, poetry, Prena Poetry, sadness, wordprompt

• we could be in love, we could be rebels.

  i am at a concert leaning my head on your shoulder right in the middle of the crowd intoning “I’m going back to 505”we are almost lost in this euphoric madness, we have a flight to catch, bills to pay, and little computer desks awaiting us. my hunger fades as i put my arms around…

  Prena subba

  March 4, 2022

  poetry

  imagination, life, lovers, loving, poetry, Prena Poetry, unrequited love

• aching persona

  i remember lying on the cold floor for hours, it was ages ago but i remember how inscrutable and haunting it felt. i remember the first time i felt that wave of melancholia, we were back in my mother’s hometownone afternoon, i was staring at the empty green mountains, and all at once my eyes…

  Prena subba

  February 26, 2022

  poetry

  childhood, depression, haunting, life, poetry, Prena Poetry, sadness

• she was like a cloud in the autumn sky

  [ piece inspired by the great gastby ] you see, old sport, she was like a fine afternoon cloud. the kind of fair, buoyant, beautiful clouds we see in the clearest skies of autumn.the kind of cloud, we would love to gaze with utmost charm and never get tired. i could lay on the open…

  Prena subba

  February 21, 2022

  poetry

  1900s, Bhutanese writer, classics, great gastby, love, metaphor, poetry, Prena Poetry