Alshaad Kara’s couple of poems


Guilt in the veins 


My heart doesn't know the night

Because the sound of my tears

Diminish the potential happiness 

In a prosperous universe. 


Darkness in itself,

Is a time which keeps bothering me

Without a word, without a stop. 


I carry the shadows of my baby

As if I shall be returned to him. 


What's immortal is the silence 

Of nightmares in all the tides

Washing the sorrows

With no fair bargain. 


Any reasoning is devoid 

Of love and appreciation

Making it a tragedy 

Bejeweled in peace.

Heartless Devotion


The heart escapes through the tunnels

Where the earth has shed a last tear

As a remembrance of a long-lasting love

In the sunshine memory of sunset. 


The moon that sets itself

Decides to shades the rainbow

In its chase to meet the stars

And grace light all over the universe. 


Love knows no abode other than

The pathway that makes its unrequited 

In this lost darkness of every headache. 


Blooming without any pain

Is a slandered wish of the soul

Prompting promises of silence 


In which butterflies leave the roses

To march forward with gazing 

An empty sky devoid of emotional transit.


Alshaad Kara is a Mauritian poet who writes from his heart. He won first place for the Boney Cultural Center Valentine’s Day Poetry Competition 2024 and was also a winner of the Flapper Press Poetry Café Valentine’s 2024 Juliet Poetry Contest. His latest poems were published in “Stygian Lepus”, “Poetry for Mental Health”, “The erozine”, “100subtexts magazine” and “Missives”. He made his Flash Fiction debut in Stygian Lepus Edition 14. 

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