Missing

Is the monsoon I really miss when I think of India the rampant pouring in the middle of a summer day this awkward and exhilarating antithesis of cause and effect manifesting simultaneously It is during the monsoon season we monks loved to meditate in the caves some centuries ago this unpredictable magic we could never […]

Nonsense

As if I ever loved you as if I ever cared as if the sea was ever deep sing again off key and say it all or play the base and lie nothing is ever the same million years gone and crimes are not in denial Holding my breath as the sacrifice is over and […]

Gratefulness

Oh love come and heal what is left of despair the loss the abuse the excrements of some unresolved self hate Oh love come and take us to paradise lost to pure redemption Oh love be our guide in the darkness of misery and lack Then the night falls along the dreams and the blessing […]

Lower

text and image by atma anna christ ***** Lost in a world of losers insomniacs manic depressives and demented angels Lost in a mind without cause or effect Lost as a butterfly in a field of opium poppies Lost in the madness and sanity the polarities or similarities and the hunger so much hunger of […]

Flow

by atma Anna Christakou *** What if I die tomorrow what if everything remains unfinished feelings words truths and lies secrets or friends or enemies endings or beginnings, losses or gains all failures, mistakes and attempts everything ending tomorrow and my goodbye echoing in the desert of unfinished sentences, expectations, delusions and dreams. Let me […]

Insomnia

She woke up a bee sleeping in a Passion flower narcosis of narcissus inhaling the image becoming the image taken away lost in the scent attracted sleeping for hours days and aeons in passion sweetness of surrender as everything ends…