Painted house

Sept 1952,
dark hair-pulled back
big brown eyes,
barefooted
dull chestnut dress with Latin accent
those words, that I don’t understand
that plays a song in my mind
ever since you start chattering away
your angelic smile, warms my cheek

school break
the season begins-cotton picking
the cotton was over our head,
we disappeared among the tall stems
into our small world,
with our own 10 years fairytale
Fun playing, resting near the barn,
watching Pappy’s laborer
drape sacks behind them
hands moving swiftly through stalks
tearing off the bolls

standing on top of Pappy’s trailer
surveying the field
an ocean of white snowflakes
blurring the world for a moment
bouncing on trailer, covered with snowy mounds
the season ended
school started
you left with your nomadic family
to earn in a new place
you left,
with a promise
You’ll meet me on the next cotton picking season

inspired by the painted house

Chemistry unleashed

Matter, atom, mass
Does that even matters  in our life?
Chemistry,
A lesson I abhor, yet a precious nap I love!
It's all started with an atom
thus begins a never-ending relationship.
I realized fresh orange is liquid
orange juice is aqueous
Water is solvent, cocoa powder is solute
Together, its solution,
Add more cocoa powder, precipitation I'd see

Yet, no one tells me
why hydrogen and oxygen yields 2 water molecule
and not hydrogen peroxide?
'stop asking funny questions!' howled the teacher
convinced me periodic table would be fun.
Hail Geeky Mendeleev, I stand outside the lab
goddamn  Lanthanides and Actinides!

Oxidation and reduction taught me abundant
[O], gain oxygen, loss hydrogen
vice versa for [H]
if I gain a girlfriend, I'll lose all my money
If I dump them, my pocket becomes hefty

I agree anode and cathode are perfect soulmates.
Electrolysis had my full attention
I daydream plating everything
to gold, new era King Midas!

1,2-dibromoalkane, ethyl ethanoate,2-chlorobut-3-enoic acid
my head spinned,
I broke Liebig condenser,
Since that, distillation stamped clearly in mind.

I proposed the angel of my heart
'your presence intoxicates me like alcohol,
my heart gets volatile meeting your eyes,
Accept my love, the delicate you
and the rigid me becomes the strongest alloy'
She suggested barbiturate is the right medicine for me.

Two years putting up with Chemistry,
Here I am,
hallucinating in the exam hall.
Unbelievably, with God's grace,
I scored the goddamn Chemistry!!!

And that's because the chemistry I had with God!


(I've never wrote such lengthy poem before, I just scribbled, and looking at it now, I'm shocked actually)

We, on that night.

I remember
vividly
that beautiful night
on the tall grass field
under a cupola of dancing stars
we lay there on our back.
Small giggles and laughter
seems so loud
breaking the screaming silent
reaching the dark purple sky
tinged with faint pink

Your mellifluous voice
humming in my ears
Your velvety hand,
As it touches my sun damaged skin
Did you felt it, like I did?
Blood burning beneath your skin?
Adrenaline rushes to spinal,
leaving you in stillness

Those moments
in the tall grass field
like a raindrop in the dessert
too beautiful,
too little,
and too quickly gone