Motives

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 2015 (c)

Motives

Lying pensive
On the arms of silence
Reclining on the cheeks
of tranquility ..ever shy
ever soft
My eyes refuged
in sockets
Reckless. .neglectful
I heard deep moans
Some soul sobbing  
Wailing. .weeping
Sound escalated
stretched like
an evergreen bougainvillea
Knocked at the gate
Of my ears
Whispered the name
of the anguisher :
"Your Heart"

Avalanche

Myself disowned me ..a forlorn child
identity outaged ..words failed
No passport defines me
No land embraces me
nameless  
Selfless..soulless  
I approached you for a bliss
Love bred in detached hearts
Bismerched by my own starvation
My demons questioned my perdition
I doomed it juxtaposition
Of  supervision and  envision
I don't know me
And me lost recognition
Meaning and definition

La femme

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 19 2015 (c)

The french said
"Cherchez la femme"
Women, the sweet "dames"

Were once Pandora
Out of whose box
slipped a rakish aura

And Helen whose
untamed core
raged the Trojan war 

Clytemnestra,the fiend
doomed Agamemnon's end                 

And Elektra plotted the demise
of mom and her accomplice

Not to underestimate Cleopatra's guile

That lured Mark Anthony in a while

Well, I, all those, excel                    
Yet in love..am your guardian angel



* "Cherchez la femme" :
Seek the woman
Femme pronounced as /fam/
*" dames" : ladies..pronounced as /dam/

The Debate!

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 2015 (c)


My soul, heart and mind
summoned  to negotiate
My love condition:
critical crucial controversial    

My soul.. captivated..subjugated ..furiated
My heart.. tickled..filled ..thrilled
My mind..impressed..obsessed..
Possessed                                  
The three doomed that love one-of-a-kind
As they devised an oath: to treasure it even after death  ,
they noticed that common sense wasn't invited!!

I wanted to tell you...

Clytemnestra Aa Aug  4 2015 (c)

I wanted to tell you...

I envy the soil that woos your hands!
I hate  the footpath that hugs your steps !

I abhor the cup that reclines on your lips !

I despise the comb that courts your hair  !
I loathe the pipe that sleeps on your palms and flirts with your breath!!

     For all that should be mine!!

                                 Yet , I refrained!!

How often ?

Clytemnestra Aa Aug 5 2015 (c)  


Did you whisper my name in the dark.. wrestling an obstinate echo?!
How often?
Did you savor my scent in the morning..mating sleepy hollow?!
How often?
Did you sigh when a young lady passed loosening her locks as clusters of red grapes  in a vineyard amidst the meadow?!    
Did you ask yourself ,"was it she?"
Well, it was me:
the phantom that made you rage an everlasting war against slumber!! And no armistice is in the air..ever !!

Farewell

Clytemnestra Aa
 Aug 9 2015 (c)  



Am leaving as my heart depleted
My ink evanesced ..my quill revolted
My rhyme buried its strain !!
My tears preyed upon themselves  !!
I am the widow of joy              
Clad in Black ever !!                  
My poetry bled to death !!
My love for you is an orphan
Bawling at the corner..surd!!
Am ashes dissipated by west wind
and you are the fire that consumes me      !!!!

Equation of the First Degree

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 10 2015 (c)



You are the gist  
Men are supporting details    
You are the stem
Men are just inflections
You are the core
Men are added props  
You are the real incentive
Men are illusions  
Your words are authentic
Theirs are  phony copies
Your looks are out-of-the-way
Theirs are imitations
And you know why?!
Because you summarise all men

Proof of love!!

 Clytemnestra Aa
 August  10 2015 (c)



Will you sew me  a shawl of words  to survive cold winter nights courting your forbidden heat??
And when scorching sun snarls
I will chew the shawl..a thread a day
To try the flavour of your palms     !!!

Will you seed me a bed of  roses
Scented by your breath
And when I long for a feel
I will chomp it on.. a rose a day
To fancy the fervour of your lips!!!

Genuine love

Clytemnestra Aa     Aug 11 2015 (c)
 

is not for those who mirror us
But those who perfect us
Some chasm inside won't ever be abridged
Except by one person
Some drought won't ever be assuaged
Except by one person
Without whom , we are deficient
No matter how much we sham complacency
Without whom, we are a jigsaw
Of a painting with one missing piece
Which sounds so life-and-death
that it tips the scales against all other pieces! !

Pain

Clytemnestra Aa Aug  12 2015

Am a beautiful vase  natural..unrefined  
You added varnish to my details
Neglected, I adorned your room
My hollow soul
Craved for company
I beseeched you
To call some daisies
Yet,you invited pain instead
my corners contorted
But, you turned a deaf ear
agony spawned my demise      
I  got cracked  and shattered    
               ......                          
All I needed was some daisies
And all you offered was tears

Did we meet ??!

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 12 2015 (c)



In another world..another life    ??!!
For I know you well

I know well how you sit by the window Kissing my whiff..

Did we have a walk side by side ??!!
For I know well the feel of your arms around my waist..

Did we chat   ??!!
For I know well how you sound    

Did we kiss    ??!!      
For I know well the spice of your lips

Did we hug   ??!!
For I know well the redolence of your ribs

Am I in love...or in"sane"       !!!!!!

Tonight

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 13 2015


   
We will meet
I will call you by name
Your name will sound different
Uttered with so much love...
We will talk and laugh
You will read for me some poems...
And I will sit on your lap
 to whisper love words into my ears
and feed me chunks of chocolate chips
..but first ..
you should kiss each chunk..
I will hug you and never let go  
You will stoke my tresses
Till I sleep on your chest..
Don't linger
Go sleep now                      
We will meet
In your dream   !!!

Surrender! !

Clytemnestra Aa  
Aug 13 2015 (c)  

 

Her Arabian Eyes  
The black sigh
Casting spells on passersby            
Lashes kissing brows
in "kohl"appeasing the sight
Darker than a winter night
They speak of charm          
Provoke..Unarm
Arrest.Captivate..
Conquer..subjugate...
Denuding you of sanity
If you catch a glimpse, for eternity
You will send yourself
To her jail
Sentence yourself to life
Denying yourself bail !!!

Perdition

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 14 2015 (c)



When finally
I met the man of my dreams
We were both hard-pressed
He was engrossed in thinking
 how to make it work out
I was preoccupied with
watching him think
Following every wink
Falling deeper and sink
In a love of no peer
Heavenly yet queer

Years passed and we were still wrapped up
None of us was done              
Till youth was squandered      
And love got wrinkled
And gray-haired
I saw him again              
With a wife and grown kids  
He didn't discern me  
Yet I knew well
He was still thinking

 So I kept watching   ..

Stifling Demesne

 Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 15 2015



My inside ..vacated
Airless air
Breathless breath
Chained me
Led me handcuffed to nugatory..
stunningly,
I sluggishly paced
And willingly complied
Pain enfeebled my stamina
As a tractable prey    
Why should I endure that throe?
Why should I be chastened for an illusory transgress?
Overloaded with pangs
Immersed in restlessness
I smashed my core by those bare hands of mine
I burnt a swarm of laughs by biddability
 And wasted my last smile to travail
 My masts summoned all sway to brazen the maelstrom yet am swallowed by
my own windwirls..

Midnight Struggle

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 16 2015
 


Am sailing to you
Am the canoe
And you are the lighthouse
Guided by your caliginous light
Misled by envious moon
And jealous stars                  
Mastless
Yet rowing my soul out
Hastening by knots
Neglecting ripples ..heedless to the eb and flow of conspiring sea
Never shut your doors
Am arriving soon
Be there..tender..lit..warming..  
My wood will be so wet..disembodied. ...jaded

Blissful Death

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 16 2015 (c)



Death..the demise of flesh
The revolting sway to existence
Snatching life
Leaving hearts to grievance
And some souls to roam unsettled
Unremittingly searching for a final destination
Stiffening some bereft   ..heartless
Denying others peace  ..restless
Vouchesafing serenity   ..woeless
Death..the foe to mortals
The intimidating glimpse of the after life
Is a bliss!!?
Aren't souls unleashed free to hover skies..cross glens..lands of the alive?
You won't be that far to me , then!!

Where is my toy?

The following is a short poetic prose based on a true story that dates back to the year 1986 (during the Lebanese war).Mom told me this story since she personally knew those people.Please note that we should recall such painful memories , so we never forget to say "NO" to war!

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 17 2015 (c)



Dania and her three younger brothers
were playing somewhere
As they heard bombing everywhere
They hurried to their place
A haunted house.. ghosts embrace

Walls barely standing
Devastated. .wiped out
Like some mistake deleting
with an eraser washed out

Squintingly, she looked for her toy
There it is..her gorgeous doll "Joy"
Once a birthday gift from dad
Limbless. .barely clad

Her beautiful purple dress.. torn and stained
Lonely and hungry ..nothing sustained

Still Dania didn't give up a sec
She kept looking for other toys
among the wreck
Till she found "mom" under fallen brick!!

Harmony of Chaos

Clytemnestra Aa
Aug 18 2015 (c)



I'm too eager to be there ..
with you
on that broken bench
With mended hearts..
curious eyes hooked
by the whimsical dip
The snarled barren
leafless tree branches
The peeping blushing stars ..
the sheet of shy darkness ..
All elude the mind
With an abstruse
philosophy of peace
Priceless peace
That tugs deep
into the very bare existence
I won't fret if your lips
threat mine with exuberant heat!
I may even grease their palm
to negotiate another of your
sweet surreptitious crimes
No guilt..
for it's sheer magnetism
Which is so heavenly that
mortals like us can't  but
consider  an axiom !! 

Disavowable! !

Clytemnestra Aa (c)August 3 2015 


I love you like shade stomping
On walls of oblivion..Chiming
unnoticed ..Unheard...unspoken
as night dyes earth with silken
black drama ..To hush all jubilee ..
For I dare not let them know about you and me ..My mirror asks ..who is he ?who painted your cheeks with that glee?Who made your looks that teeming with infatuation? Who made your eyes shine like the sun first born upon creation?
Myself fears confessing to myself!!
I deny what seethes my night
Yet as my eyes spell your name 
am exposed at first sight!!

I can't love you any more

Clytemnestra Aa 
Aug 8 2015 (c) 
 

I hate you
Every bit of me refutes your claims of love
I will boycott your hugs
You looks..your words
You can cheapen my heart 
And never pay a word
I will auction those feelings
That were unanswered
Know well I deserve all the love
that hearts can accommodate, yet
You belittled that impeccable love 
And scorned my innocence
Am a disclaimer..Am a survivor 
And a big liar ;)

short story " Forbidden Fruit"

On the 13th of april,1975 ,a multifaceted civil civil war broke out in Lebanon.

When I Lack You

Clytemnestra Aa (c) 
August 3 2015 

The sun never abandons slumber
The moon weeps stars crumbling
Haphazardly onto nameless lands
Flowers mourn their late odour
Rainbows' hues wane into blankness
Fruits lament dearth of fleshiness
Words are widowed 
Sentences chase meaning in alleys leading to you
and am bribing the wind to hasten thy pace.
till we run across each other.
Don't say a word. 
just let conspiring wind conjure rain 
And I will seek shelter in your arms!

Illusion

August 2 2015  Clytemnestra Aa (c)

Did you get the whiff of my ripples as I bordered on your heart? 
Or discern my silhouette amidst tenebrosity? 
Did you stay up late recalling my details?
Or delineate me among the stars?
Did your heart tingle as you heard me calling out your name? 
Or taste my soul with lips jaded by yearning? 
Did you revel in my breath as I susurrated love into your ear?
Or wish to hug my soul and press till it get as soft as the petals of a flower?
Well, I guess you didn't! !

Let's date by the moon

August 1 2015 Clytemnestra Aa (c)
 
Keep gazing till I espy your face
And you see mine
Then recite into my ears lexis of
ardour ..never pretermit one
Consult other tongues
For a flood of words ..to drown my thirst till it floats over-soaked 
And I will comment into your lips
For lips dive better when passion
over swamps 
Hug my senses till I bequeath them to you

* Bare-eyed*

July 31 2015 Clytemnestra Aa (c)

Cast those drapes off your eyes
Let me behold you
Eyes are you
Eyes summarise you 
The empyrean coruscation
The scintillating looks
recount stories I've longed for 
They exploit all languages
Of passion
Let me taste that cosiness 
with senses so entranced 
so captivated
Yet not fighting for freedom 
willfully enslaved for eternity

Reluctance!

July 28 2015 Clytemnestra Aa (c)

As Eos was passionately knitting morning light ..into glistening braids
like Helen's hair locks
raping serenity as it dawned
waking the long-dormant itch , 
He was reclining on the sofa 
Pensive..pondering as a frown 
Adorned his silver front head
Shading his journey into the void
And me..thrilled. .as a child expecting a gift.. 
hurled his looks ..like lakes in 
hankering wilderness 
appetency overflowing his eyes,
he asked for some coffee!!

Morphology of love

July 30 2015  Clytemnestra Aa (c) 

Am I a word you write?!
Then add affixes.. up "root"
Change inflections
Coin ..Erase 
Conjure again
As a new part of speech
And when you're done
You run an eraser through my details 
Leaving me unfinished 
Thirsting for one final letter
Or deleting me mercilessly 
Nullifying my bare existence 
And I tensely wait..
While you...flirt with your pipe 
And a cup of tea!