Ghazal – my heart; a feverish pomegranate
A pomegranate. A burnt from childhood. A language of love. A glory of perseverance.
A flower blossoms. She is full of shyness. She is crimson of blood. Eve’s innocence.
A forbidden. She closes her soft petals. She bows down. An angel’s trumpet. A felony.
She holds a hundred tales. Who had foreseen what a delicate souvenir could become?
A slice where her resilience ends. Another. Another from where her stubbornness begins.
A crack in her ribs. Her liberation or her abomination? She spills. A stained carpet.
A growing hunger. An act of patience. A need for preservation. A rotten kiss on fingertips.
Those sick tales she had hidden to be perpetual. A survival skill. An ocean before a tide.
An aftermath. A sour tooth. Those tales in between. They sustain. Aide-mémoire.
My heart is a feverish pomegranate. I have a tendency of staining every hand that loves me.
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Ghazal is a yearner for gentleness in the stillness of life, nature and art. You can check out more of their work on odeonoud.tumblr.com
Artwork: Oblivion by Giuseppina Brandi
Giuseppina Brandi lives in Naples, Italy. She has a Master's Degree in Comparative Literatures. With a great passion for poetry too, she believes in the power of art and poetry of healing and connect. Autodidact, she has always loved drawing and painting and she takes inspiration from natural world and human emotions. Her artwork has been published in Black Bough Poetry edition Sound and Vision, Acropolis Journal: Issue Seven, Blue Motel Rooms Poetry and Art inspired by Joni Mitchell, The Poetica Sisterhood of Sylvia & Anne, Cover art of the Spellbinder literary Magazine Autumn issue 2023.