Poems by Mike Ravdonikas

// Up in the Air

I buy my tickets
just to steal sleep
in airport lounges,
not for the skies
or smiles of tired ladies
with silver hair.
But somehow,
following the signs
and queues
and children’s rhymes
of laptops-liquids-out,
I find myself out there —
beyond the gates,
gamed into taxi-
takeoff-cruise.

from 'Nomadicism'

More poems: t.me/verse

The poet Mike Ravdonikas photographed outside a cinema in the Alserkal Avenue cultural district of Dubai.

Bio

Mike Ravdonikas started writing poetry at university and developed his style during a decade of nomadic existence between places as diverse as Berlin and Singapore, New York and Helsinki, Toronto and Kyiv. In 2017, he found a permanent home in Dubai, where he currently works at Telegram Messenger.

Mike's poetry explores technology, faith, love — and the wanderings of body and mind, far from a lost homeland. Not to mention more complex subjects like the archaeology of a beard. Or being beheaded twice on the same day in the name of health and well-being.

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One of Mike's traditional blue notebooks he carries around as if the digital age were something that happened to other people.