Chopin's Embrace

Windows open,

The whirl of a breeze enters the room.

The mellow piano in soft tinkling keys

With a propelling force,

Accentuated a steep turmoil in its menace.

Calm and restlessness,

A spring leaf on thin ice.

Halcyon afternoon tea next to a music-laden window,

Complexity to the senses in revelation to octave progressions,

Held by the warmth of a Chopin’s embrace.

-Vander

Disclaimer: All poetry and fiction here are original material written by Vander. Please note that all text references, descriptions and indications are purely fictional (make-believe if you didn’t know what fiction is!) and is in no relation to any actual entities.

The King's Blessing

On a fair day the King presented a gift to her.

She was not a fair princess, an enchanting songstress, or a dutiful wife.

But she was to the King every single while,

Beautiful in his sight.

She was fearless,

Her courage can rival the bravest men of the lands.

Her words inspired wisdom in the folks she met,

And, although her small talents were not quite spectacular,

She mended the hearts of the dismayed as she wept for them.

She brought to life,

Things that were thought to be expired or broke,

An authentic gusto,

A joy in soothe that came with promises of hope.

So pain was never in vain,

And there was always another way.

So the King told her that she was so very precious

Even on those days when her shine seems to dim to the nights

The divine King blessed her with a love that never fails.

In the best of his gifts,

A celestial band opens all

Doors heavy and heaving at her.

Her forever wings of endurance.

- Vander

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In The Bath

I bet husband will sigh out loud to wife and say,

“She” is going to take her time to bathe again.

To keep a wife as beautiful as she is, she retorts:

Can’t you wait as I make myself thoroughly clean?

Do you not sympathize my need to lather and wash,

Away all my fears and anxieties.

Have a war or two inside my head,

As the water is running,

Soap’s foaming and dripping,

This scrub is the purification 

Of mind, body and soul.

So don’t rush, don’t push me to hurry,

Impatience is not my responsibility.

-Vander

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Fake

As a fake that does not belong,

To a fake pretence in a fake surreality. 

Donald shelters in the mask of truth,

The uninvited vermin goes unnoticed.

Watch me and discipline me, he said.

Buying more machines of convenience,

Benefit to the humbug, wily profiteer.

-Vander

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Glass Heart

Hunted by men, the mermaid said:

My heart is a glass,

Shattered and shattering into shards. 

As I bury them in bloodied hands,

Never rekindled into a whole. 

Remaining fragile and divided,

Into shapeless isolated parts.

The glint of its surface is still pretty,

Shimmery and sharp,

Cut and broken from afar.

-Vander

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The Forgotten Merlion

The forgotten Merlion is one of a rare conundrum.

It is in the middle of somewhere and in the middle of nowhere.

Successful people in the world have heard of its ingenuity,

But they would have forgotten sooner.

It is young, but it is not that very young,

A cultural disposition and a displaced former.

Uncertain about where it truly belongs.

Struggling to stay afloat, to make its ends meet.

Dreams are supposed to come true for the forgotten Merlion.

No matter what dreams they are.

If any tinge and sparkle of magic remains on it,

It is to drinking port with the stern utilitarian.

A strange vision envelops the forgotten Merlion,

Where vanity and desolation tower hills,

Pure hearts exchanged for cash,

Tug-of-war between haves and have-nots.

It cannot speak out loud for itself with the courage that it has,

The courage it seems to instil and protest.

If the forgotten Merlion is seeping in Anonymous, 

Then the shadow of it too, is surely forgotten. 

-Vander

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The Expressionist

The expressionist is like an ancient woman,

A goddess of language.

She shapes the fabric of modernity unperturbed by retrospect.

Undefined by superficialities and plastics,

She infuses meaning into words Herculean.

So the expressionist doeth and sayeth,

The common and taken for granted by humanity,

Into new light and the necessary.

It is said the expressionist is hypersensitive selfish,

Master to a set of rules and expectations.

Denouncing the impudence of the brazen, shallow gauche. 

Her perception only permits for her to perceive,

And the naming of that perception is for her to claim.

The expressionist waits for no one to decide for her,

All the imaginations of the universe to uncover.

In any age, people wait and chase the expressionist.

Only the expressionist remembers for them, 

What they have lost and long for.

The expressionist concentrates on the finest moment of the second. 

It will pass her, but she has received the emblazoned fact.

Her gentle strength follows an order,

Her unspoken speech implores the conscious.

-Vander

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The Duty Of Invisibility

So they say the limelight actor desires to be nobody,

Simple to be a trivial commoner.

A trivial person is not a trivial matter. 

If no one is aware that he exists,

His existence is more powerful than those greatly remembered.

His absence is not quite an absent.

He can be who he really is, or was, or to be,

And not be concerned about the cares, norms and laws of us.

His duty in order to be free,

Is to conscientiously display,

Be and believe in his invisibility

Day by day

All this while even as he gains some fame.

-Vander

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Hope

Is Hope only for the chosen?

Where there is a chosen few.

Does Hope desire its lot inasmuch as hope is the mass of wants?

If the wise man tells you there is hope for the hopeless,

Is it a hideous lie you must not deceive yourself?

For many thought hope has only sought out its privileged ones.

Still so many live by not another hopeful day,

Never hoping or realising hope comes true,

Even when their joy giving to others is the reason.

-Vander

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Humans On Sale

The economist knows

Every human will be on sale, 

A particular value placed in the tiered order of society.

Some humans are sold at a higher price than others wherein the tag differs,

But nonetheless the sale will be done and exacted in harmony.

For the human to earn his freedom, the submission is himself as commodity.

The human has to be sold to the sale and offer the conditions of such to his buyer,

Within his competent capacity and bitterness of consent.

At the end of the day, the human will not want the life of a human.

His sale continues to follow into another sale in preparation of his future to be sold, 

Yet another conniving disarray of his fated condemnation.

One day the human actor won’t even know that he is no longer human, 

He becomes an artificial object of objectifications,

Owning lies and distorted perceptions.

A burgeoning economy of humans bought over.

-Vander

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The Meek Powerless

The Meek Powerless is a dignified, reserved bird.

It shies from the big birds and cowers its face,

But its spirit no matter how little glows in brilliance day after day.

It roams free but enter not some forests,

Pulsating into another block of heartland every few minutes.

Powerless in following a flock of similar vulnerable birds,

The grace of unity offers refuge and trust over the flight beyond.

-Vander

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I Will Be Your Sword

If a sword is hidden in me,

It would be yours to wield and shield.

Yours to keep and stay,

The sword of a thousand swords,

Cauterized into my bone.

When rot can crumble,

I am the strength of your unfaltering faith.

Can it be true that if one becomes a sword for others,

He will perish with that very sword.

In becoming one and none with it.

Can it be true there is only agony in anguish, 

When one gives himself up to be a sword for others,

To only live in the essence of servitude.

Sword is the seam holding a man,

A wonder in almost bursting esteem, 

Battling while gilding the glimmer of gold.

Could you be punished awake and asleep,

The soldiering sword serving defence and offence,

In a cyclic barrel of enmity.

The impressive disease of hero.

I will be your sword, yours alone to take.

Even when you do not carry, not tired from the weary.

-Vander

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Lady On The Fire

The lady breathes hell out of a fire,

Don’t fiddle with her smile,

You won’t know what temper divides her fire.

Believe them when they say,

This lady has been through hell and back,

Fury she carried slaughters around her neck

Burnt and vanished long before they thought

Her plight is a bottomless pain.

Careful now what you would say to this lady,

For she is lady on the fire,

Queen to the House of Targaryen.

-Vander

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The Bullied Never Before Girl

She is never before, a heard girl. 

Did she try? Cowering before others.

Her bullied demons can nowhere near her nightmares,

Shortcomings are common sense.

She had never done many things the people of her age did before, 

As full-time runaway from mean mates. 

Nobody helped her when she needed so

Her emotions, actions, and speeches are primordial,

But sincere and real. 

She lived life envying others who had friends,

Who loved them as they were.

Other kids had fun and if they don’t,

They were still there for each other.

In her loneliness, only the elemental properties were her best friend,

Objects that listened.

-Vander

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The Depressed Bee

The depressed bee buzzes in silence. 

It works hard but never succeeds.

When a group of bees swarm together,

They depart away from the depressed bee.

The depressed bee can never seem to understand the world,

It does not need the depressed bee.

How many times the bee apologizes for being depressed,

Taking up the precious time of her vibrant, industrious friends,

Extending their impatience and boredom. 

The bee dwells in its cave of solitude and buries deep, 

Seeing and feeling everything and nothing of a thing,

Anticipating the redux of the same next day.

Peering at other bees’ gaieties, 

This bee knew she did not really have a life so rich.

When being real is difficult to be for a bee,

Bee endeavors the surreal indeed.

Alone it encroaches into unfamiliar territory,

Loathing the diplomatic cat adored by neighborhood strangers,

Bee cannot compete.

By nightfall, the new sight of darkness sinks in,

The depressed bee forgets about the honey,

And attempts Beethoven’s Pathetique.

-Vander

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