POETRY
N. Masani Landfair is a visual artist and poet.
A Professional Creative for over 20 years. She has read at poetry events in her native Chicago, where she also studied poetry at Columbia College. Landfair infuses her love and research of the arts, environmentalism, social issues, psychological, and transcendent studies into her written works.
She currently resides and works between Chicago and Northern Georgia and is working on he first book of poetry titled:”a seat by the window before i leave” to be published in 2020
A limited group of poems will be featured here bi-monthly here.
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“self betrayed martyr”
twisted turn before the fall
eyes center on the tip of the blade
lids shield pain
not yet felt
mild warm intrusion
new sensation of tactile matter tearing
through a sacredness never meant to be exposed
in this world
one wonders why so little time was spent
exploring the inner world
why men look to the stars
when the oceans are full of them
one wonders
as the ground grows a closer
what was trusted
accepting the misdirection
within and without
despair and anger escape in narrow tears
one wonders
as the ground comforts the soft intrusion
how the betrayal on one’s own soul
can be justified to have opportunity to come back
over and over
inciting apathy to revisit swords to sacredness
in forms of future presence
over and over
One makes an oath
never again wanting to grow cold
on colder ground:
return in any form and
be a current in the lesson
no longer remain broken
in the betrayal
of one’s own purpose
2019 © N. Masani Landfair.
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“Lessons from brick walls”
her only purpose
in my life
was to knock on my door
and tell me to trust again
accepted the message
but not the messenger
and allowed the tug
to trust
knocking on doors
with no expectations
2019 © N. Masani Landfair.
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“noon is neutral”
noon is neutral
not eager
nor procrastination
noon is the
care about you hour
the space the heart speaks
looking to nurture our hunger
many wake from off schedule slumber
self conscious in feeling the day is half over
that type of time
does not exist
in the heart over mind
2019 © N. Masani Landfair.
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