Line Breaker Quotes

“The prayer sank deep in her luggage, and
for years she had longed for a robin’s song
unpacked – none the time to utter.
Madam, yani, her soul got stuck between
your teeth; piece by piece a treat or a banquet;
wrapped in a raw whole foods diet.”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“Ask the tree where its roots end
it will etch a line to its reveries
once beating its last toil for soil
now lamenting but for the green”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“Please tell Ma & Pa this knowledge I still held
about their sojourn years passed, blueprinting
edges of the Arab soil with suitcases and work
permits for your first lessons in Globalisation.”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“The distance between their sanity
and winter is their ears pinned
to cackling bogeymen on podiums,
spewing rabies on the microphone.
Fools buy the viral lie.”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“Headstrong I flare the fire within
softly you muzzled the flame aside,
how do we sunburst, knot?”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“We mourn for old debts,
for we are tiny pebbles
in a shore of gluttons.”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“I sought his giggles
beneath the ashes
where all his dreams
found home...”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“A voice lingered in the sky,
humming narratives
of decay orchestrated
by the mighty one...”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems