Ashraf Booley first sent poems to Poetry Potion in 2012. This poem here below, A Story of the Mind, was featured in our fifth anniversary edition. At the moment of awakening another story ends. Like a book with missing pages,...

let me take a sip drink just a little enough to quench this something caught in my throat just a little taste to parch this dry patch soothe this aching scratch with that nectar but there is nothing no roses...

[tabby title="Poem"] Pain numbs pain; razor-blades and minora blades bandage bleak memories etched across blood-blotched skin - where sagacity has gone astray. [restrict]Quavering and quivering and voice arrested in the dampening silence. The morning sun blots up a bed of...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] At the moment of awakening another story ends. Like a book with missing pages, half-read, no ending. A state that awakens the silence of the unconscious. Where the dream-maker calls upon flying elephants and leaping giants. I...