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Poetry

Browse the full collection of poetry from Kash Baloch, spanning themes of identity, trauma, healing, love, and survival.

437 poems

Outer Space

November 9, 2022 · Poetry

Even in deep space, your love holds me down, Your embrace has weight, and keeps me coming, back around…

Madness

November 9, 2022 · Poetry

When I rage, I rumble, cave, and crumble, slip and stumble, bleak, I bumble,…

Central Park

November 9, 2022 · Poetry

You came along when skies were dark, just like a song, you left your mark. Upon my heart, I felt a spark. Our energy was off the charts,…

Hogwarts

November 9, 2022 · Poetry

my love is just another crutch; a whole circus, tainted by trust. oh wizard me, enchanted thee; you are hog's wart; i'm diamond dust.…

Bananas—A Poem About Absurdity

November 9, 2022 · Poetry

When I was young & inexperienced, arrogance fooled me into believing I was ingenious. …

Kerosene — A Poem About Volatility

January 26, 2022 · Poetry

Had my wings coated in soaking hot oil, pouring into the ocean of our toxic, intoxicating love. …

Bestdays—A Poem About Nostalgia

January 26, 2022 · Poetry

When the night collects dust, before deciding to depart,  and your knees feel weak, from traveling through the …

BP—A Poem About Boiling Points.

June 18, 2021 · Poetry

I need to be vaccinated, immunized from those green eyes; pools of jade, that pull me under, they reel me in, then let me sink.  …

Fuego Was Her Name.

February 6, 2021 · Poetry

Fluidity, that laps away at favourite finds; a predatory, poisoned ivy vine, that spreads like somber hues, and sorry news,…

Loose Rap.

February 6, 2021 · Poetry

I wrote you a four page letter, we've been back, back, and forth, and forth, I really needed somebody, and you showed me my worth.…

Spectre.

February 6, 2021 · Poetry

Losing you left me weightless, now I float through life, a spectre; a phantom made the day I woke to find you'd slipped away.

Cycles — A Poem on Repetition & Relapse

February 6, 2021 · Poetry

Set ablaze by an array of greys, that grazed my grace like the gaze of glazed, but gloomy, Sundays. Every memory had a melody,…

Fairground.

February 6, 2021 · Poetry

Read between the lines— the words often left unsaid. Worries that weaken the warrior, exclamations of love that go …

Love Letter to Little Me.

February 6, 2021 · Poetry

Dear little Kashif, I want you to know that you are loved, that you are worthy, and that you are worthy of love. Regardless of how…

Chronic Couture.

February 6, 2021 · Poetry

I used to bend.  Melted into velvet  backdrops, like  couture.…

Blunder.

November 24, 2020 · Poetry

In this space, I have nothing. No home, no stone;  everything is hollow. Emptier than I've ever been, …

Life, It Goes On, Anyway.

November 11, 2020 · Poetry

Allow yourself to exist, freely, for you are tiny particles of stars. Let your love light the way, when the world is cold and dark.…

Muse.

November 11, 2020 · Poetry

Make me your flamenco dancer under the fiery Spanish sun, hold me, in your arms, like a classical guitar, caress my body like its strings,…

Fleet Street.

November 11, 2020 · Poetry

In London-town of yore but yet, even to this very day, slovenly bovine herd together on conveyor belts.…

Obliterated.

November 11, 2020 · Poetry

Shadowed by the shame that shackles us, in a cage of congealed criminal intent. The pressure to perform provokes a particular pain, that is…