Uncategorized – Page 11 – Antonia Sara Zenkevitch

To Thrive

the circus

of would-bes and was

held within

hushed chorus

spilling into each other

in needed trust, begin,

What if it did not mean dominion — Luna

This poem of mine was published on Luna’s Poetry Bar – a lovely project connecting & supporting poets from all over the place. Those reckoning by the tide-shifter’s phase To segment eras into months, years, seasons, We weren’t to sleep the days; to say we forgot Reasons, riot, insurrections, murmurs, rumbles, Torrents volley out…

Creatively Conserving Energy

can we weave the green

amid grey smoke and ashes

to re-root the tree?

I am Zebra

There are stripes

Hidden within

My pale skin,

Zebra stripes

Where the matter of me is stretched thin

Light and dark matter between

Each cell’s loose connections,

Each day my stripes go unseen

By those whose fear casts reflections;

Projections of who they fear themselves to be

As they try to warp and bend my sense of identity,

But their fear is not me.

Children’s Uprising

“I’ve seen smarter cabinets in Ikea”

says a banner outside Westminster;

the young people are gathering

to reclaim their stolen futures,

their words, their actions: poetry,

Do Say

Do say, don’t abate,
unleash that sly stream of hate;
feign each injury
is just advise to cure me.

Capillary

Networked capillaries of clans and communities I trace in veins and vessels between their names; Vines intersecting countries, lands and seas, Continents, identities, traced outlines remain In structured forms, appellations a form of poetry Transposed into diagrams and portrait frames; An ordinance; a curation of collective entity Respiring like lungs, paths criss-cross domains Somewhere in…