HAI[NA]KU and other poems Quotes

“I exaggerate
There is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue”
― A.A. Patawaran, HAI[NA]KU and other poems

“To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses”
― A.A. Patawaran, HAI[NA]KU and other poems

“I can't remember the poem
That pierced through my heart
It was the saddest I heard
Of all truths ever spoken
It left a scar in me
A wound that doesn't heal
But the words are forgotten
So is a big part of me”
― A.A. Patawaran, HAI[NA]KU and other poems

“No music in the raindrops
No clouds with silver lining
Torrents of sorrows
Horror in streams”
― A.A. Patawaran, HAI[NA]KU and other poems

“I crouch in corners
The infection is widespread
Love epidemic”
― A.A. Patawaran, HAI[NA]KU and other poems

“I read for pleasure
In search of fictional worlds
To enrich my truths”
― A.A. Patawaran, HAI[NA]KU and other poems

“Blank pages are cruel
Pure torture in white or beige
But how else to start”
― A.A. Patawaran, HAI[NA]KU and other poems