The Barque of Us
Should the barque of us go adrift
Let us berth to the harbor of us, my dear
Though the times and tides may shift
the miles marked together-a bridge to pier.
And if you’re too weary to climb ashore
I myself shall come and meet you at sea-
-be an island for you…Be a buoy for me!
Thus now and always and forevermore.
And if the flax ties that bind us come undone and loose
I ...
Sunday 20th October 2019 4:39 pm
Player
Pupils steady, unflinching like a key lodged in the hole
with no traitorous jingling chain to dangle from.
Expect no truth from the player for such is the role
and such is the nature of stardom.
Shades and shutters meaningfully open wide showing
off the sparkling glass of feigned transparency.
Long scarlet velvet drapes falling heavy, not allowing
sight or view ...
Sunday 20th October 2019 4:37 pm
Lightly
Οn the sleek surface of the pupil of this marble eye which pulls us down
heavy is the water trapped inside the mist
heavy the living and heavy the desist
Heavy like Persephone's black leaden veil and wedding gown.
This life isn't for the faint-hearted; for death isn't only for the brave.
heavy is the joy, heavy the bliss and fickle
heavy is the jingling silver bending sickle
...Thursday 19th September 2019 4:25 pm
The Moon in Me- An Epigram
Ah, Cruel Chance, know that if you were to pick "today" at random,
I would go down smiling bright and treading light and hearty-a-pace!
If, knowing that, "today" you do chose...Alas...Why I'll never fathom!
Just take me quick, before the moon in me decides to show its other face.
Wednesday 18th September 2019 11:11 pm
My Faith and Inspiration Found
Let me even at the expense of my evolution remain
a sharpened blade tucked inside a dusty sheath.
Let me never taste the sweet liquors and fruit of fame
For I would rather share a glass of tepid water with
the hands that clean up after the ruthless beasts of war
Gladly I'll put the pen aside and grab a hod and shovel
and never write another word; keep silent forevermore.
be ...
Monday 16th September 2019 10:35 pm
The Wait
The passing of time ends in martyrdom
I have been a martyr since seven am.
Five hundred steps trod by a medium-sized foot from Hell to Home
One hard labor-filled day's worth of patience to determine who I am.
She said "They will come in the afternoon".
Not precise enough to keep my hand and mind steady.
I push the minutes as the hours dawdle; He whispers: "Soon..."
"It'...
Friday 13th September 2019 5:36 pm
I Refuse
I refuse to go down with the damned
Should Circumstance entrain me I shall swim against the tide
Let my conscience not rest at the thought that at least I tried
I refuse to go down with the damned.
I refuse to succumb to dull despair
If the thin thread from which I hang comes to break,
Without a wail, without a tear; quietly the fall I'll take.
I refuse to succumb to d...
Thursday 12th September 2019 11:23 am
Wedding Wish
And even though you are a child of Fear be not a mother to Strife.
Let the weakling with the wheezing breath behind, stand tall as staggering Life!
Remember not solely the half of you that fills you with doubt and dread
Hold on to hope, a royal bequest, even though your Queen lies with the dead.
The foul impostor that posed as King took a shard of your innocence with him,
but your b...
Sunday 8th September 2019 7:16 pm
Blessed With A Curse -A Wretched Rhyme
There was a young lady whose nose
had the fragrance and shape of a rose!
But she was rather morose
because everyone knows
that a person can't smell their own nose!
She crossed her eyes trying to look at it
which made her feel dizzy in a heartbeat!
Alas, she couldn't see it
and nor could she smell it
She couldn't even spell it!
All maudlin "Oh the irony!" she'd cry.
...Friday 30th August 2019 9:45 am
Argument For The Sake Of The Argument
Words lost all meaning
Ears sealed and mind shut. Hear not...
Listen not... Just sing!
A truth avoided
a resolution denied
"Disaster Ahead"
Lingering ringing
vociferous aftershock
white noise is noise too.
Silence... Naturally.
Postwar, sift through cinders for
new meanings in words.
Tuesday 27th August 2019 10:54 pm
My Better 3/4
The scar and trauma of a severed soul is mathematically inconvenient
Cauterize The Heart to save Its better half; cuts "being" down to 50% off.
Should you come to love me, know from the start, that wily is the minion
that binds our fortunes; who is meant to roar and who is meant to cough
For the stronger link is doomed to waste away
if placed next to the weak one.
But if st...
Monday 26th August 2019 1:27 pm
The Burden of Man- A Ghazal
Atlas has fallen to his knees for heavy is the burden of Man
And the shoulders of Earth quiver and sway under the burden of Man.
Shoes wound the soil like shame wounds the soul
And His own mother's cheek scathed and mangled under the heel of Man
Little Miss Wilderness, The Unbridled; tamed and trimmed, confined in a concrete corner
Now the air smells of pine and essence of...
Sunday 25th August 2019 12:21 pm
Divine Sacrifice
How gracious, giving, odd-a-Medea Mother Earth is, that casually allows
the sticky fingers of my offspring pluck hers whilst in their very prime
The sugary, inciting scent and sanguine, blush flesh ominously arouse
their uninhibited watering glands and ushers them to a gluttonous crime.
What a ruthless, audacious Demeter is I who reaps and sickles the seed
-the splendid fruit that t...
Saturday 24th August 2019 12:20 pm
Appeasement
Stroke the tiger according
to the direction of his pelt
Kiss the hand and the ruby ring
like all the cowards who knelt
Polish the blade and varnish the sheath
unbutton your shirt and let him whip you
Bid your time till he's upon his last breath
wait until he's too weak to strike you
then say:"Just because I worship you
It doesn't mean I like you."
Always slither, ne...
Thursday 8th August 2019 9:12 pm
Well Enough
Let the dead stay buried down under
leave the towering weed that you planted be
The memory is blurry now, the edge has become blunter.
And that has had to be well enough for me...
Leave the untold remain unspoken,
the unspeakable you never claimed your own.
Take the unasked pardon; the world pretends to have forgotten
So play along and leave well enough alone.
Monday 5th August 2019 7:51 pm
M15tak3s- A Whateverette
"Use your words" everyone said
They didn't say "use them well!"
Weave a lavish text in silken thread
A lustrous web for pomposity to dwell
"Use your words! The fancier the better!"
A silken scarf, a silken shirt, a shiny silken sweater!
And a pretty pair of sparkly silken handstiched socks
Specially made for the daintiest of dainty feet to use!
Wear your festive, silken s...
Saturday 3rd August 2019 12:06 am
Everything- An Etheree
The hermit worships at the mountain top
He prays at the doom below his feet
bellows loud to hear his echo
and sings dirges to the gorge.
A muffled commotion
slowly wakes him up
tambourines, lute
His suave bride
“My sweet
love
come!"
Unclench
that creased brow
shed that black cloth
the mourner's garment
break the solemn silence
clad yourself in white ...
Tuesday 30th July 2019 11:37 am
I Loved And Loved- A Triolet
I loved and loved with all my heart
Yet I was not loved back.
My full house of scarlet fell apart
I loved and loved with all my heart
Blind faith's a solitary art
'n I failed to see my Jack was black
I loved and loved with all my heart
Yet I was not loved back.
Wednesday 24th July 2019 2:55 pm
Starchild's Keeper- A Sonnet
Father Thunder cracked, Mother Thunder struck!
through a cosmic tango, your divine birth!
And into a mad stellar chase I broke
begging to glow as your mirror on Earth...
I plunge into the ocean after dark,
and swim in this indigo-silver trance.
I relish in your splendor, hear the lark
his, a song of sorrow and jubilance.
though bittersweet it couldn't ever spoil
this ne...
Tuesday 23rd July 2019 11:03 am
Mother (Love In The Time Of Disapproval)
The Hero's blade is showing signs of rust
"Oh sweet mother-in-amrs why are you abandoning me?"
Your deformed wrinkled ancient child still needs you
Eons have passed since the labor that separated us
Have you passed the placenta yet?
Abhoring
like your child
enduring
like your child
as if wrought with iron.
Your heavy lids betray you
Treacherous sneaky old Morpheas
...Monday 22nd July 2019 8:59 pm
Satan's Ark-A Sestina
This is the song of a man who had a hundred souls in his pocket
He can get no sleep, he can get no rest and he can get no peace
The rope is tight like a well-tuned cord. Alas but who's to walk it?
As Sun dawns on the docks, He dawns on the Harbor of injustice!
The bugle has blown! The man and his one hundred souls embark.
But a thousand despondent souls’ death-boat, ain't no No...
Sunday 21st July 2019 6:56 pm
Hades' Ferry- A Sea Shanty
Yo-ho-hear the song of a man, yo-ho, with a hundred souls in his pocket
He can get no sleep, he can get no rest, yo-ho, and he can get no peace
The rope is tight like a well-tuned cord yo-ho! Alas, but who's to walk it?
Yo-ho, to the docks, when Sun dawns, yo-ho, on the Harbor of injustice!
The bugle blows! All aboard! Yo-ho! A man and a hundred souls embark.
Ah, but a thousand desp...
Saturday 20th July 2019 6:03 pm
The Benefits and The Perils
The benefits of The Surface, of staying relevant
are admitedly somewhat relative.
The perils of blending in- obscure yet eminent-
under the spotlight are in superlative!
You exist, You exist not, You exist, You exist not
Even numbers can be cruel.
Yourself, Your Avatar, Reality, Virtual or Absolute
Locked in an ongoing duel.
Thursday 18th July 2019 4:56 pm
The Bluebird and the Wallflower
The dainty Butterfly passed by
He fluttered about, little low little high
Then He let out an ennuied sigh.
With a hasty lie and a haughty eye-
He ascended upwards to the lovely sky
For the wallflower hadn't blossomed...
The perky Bumblebee buzzed around
He swooped down with a jolly sound
Circled each booming bud round and round
But at first sight, sweet harbor foun...
Wednesday 17th July 2019 1:29 pm
Mid-Summer Monsoon, Pantoum
The merchild's one with mercury. Father glances at the time nervously.
Stirred are the innards of the sea and nauseous...But the surface still.
Unnerved clouds are gathering round, whispering, awaiting anxiously.
Deceitfully sweet the air; intoxicating and spellbinding like the Devil's Trill!
Stirred are the innards of the sea and nauseous... But the surface still.
A heaving ch...
Tuesday 16th July 2019 6:01 pm
The Madman and The Lunatic
When the madman and the lunatic met in a formal feast
They spoke of logic and the frequencies of the moon
"I will conquer the world" said the lunatic "fairly soon!"
"Without a doubt, but be warned" my suave blue-blooded beast
"You will scorch the Earth and crush its people in vain,
The order is singular; even though the moon succeeds
The Great King Sun shall always hold...
Sunday 14th July 2019 1:21 am
Wake Up And Smell Reality
When the hibernation of denial ends and thoughts breaks loose
and all of your senses and your instincts slowly awaken
tell the man who's tending bar in your subconsiouss
to serve your grey matter stirred, not shaken.
Thursday 11th July 2019 7:38 pm
The Summer of my Dismay (Volume 27)
Granite are the waters of the earth, the sands of time
blazed to charcoal
blurred with the grime of the millions; only a dime
per redeemed soul!
Lukewarm the tears filling the sewers of a subconciouss
that just awoke
Steadily the manicured hand wields a plastic holy cross
...
Wednesday 10th July 2019 6:17 pm
Mirror Says
Lately my mirror
has been asking questions
I pretend not to hear her
But she's not like most reflections
She threatened to stop speaking to me
she said that she will leave
She spoke of "doom" in
an eerie voice that made my chest heave
she said:
"It's time for you to hear me!
Hear me! Hear me!
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me at all?
Are you even listenin...
Monday 8th July 2019 1:11 pm
Ring Around The Poison Ivy
Ring around the daffodil
All the gods have fallen ill
One by one
The forts burned down!
Ring around the asphodel
Cheaters do not kiss and tell
Wrinkle, Wrinkle
Stars no longer shine and twinkle!
Ring around the daisy
Standards growing hazy
Foul Words, Foul Words
Hearts break too!
Ring around the poison ivy
Sip "The Lie" from Monday to Friday
...Wednesday 26th June 2019 5:37 pm
Rage, rage, rage!
Ruthless rivals ramble raw rubbish; raving, ranting, rotting. Rage rage rage!
Anonymous, apathetic anguished alone; awaiting answers, Rage rage rage!
Gleeful, glorified greedy geniuses generating glad-gospels, Rage rage rage!
Evil egomaniacs' endless embellished epics echo eternally, Rage rage rage!
Saturday 22nd June 2019 6:16 pm
Funny, Funny
Funny, funny! How funny, so very funny that it makes me sick!
that the sheep's death-rattle should go down in history as "vicious roar"
that the Mame that's to blame keeps mum while her blood is being sucked by The Tick
that the wrongdoer has a carte blanche to laugh and jump and skip and soar!
Isn't it funny? How funny, so funny, very funny, funny; don't you find? The deceit!
That ...
Wednesday 19th June 2019 6:47 pm
Beast in Pain
There is a feral beast trapped inside of me that suffers
She weeps and roars and pounds hard on her dungeon's door
A smothering embrace; noone cares to accept the love She offers
Her pathos and tumult within have force enough to start a war
And though I have her well contained, claws trimmed and all;
while I have Her locked away, I even had Her put in chains...
I can still hear ...
Friday 14th June 2019 7:36 pm
Starchild's Spell
Oh sweet Starchild, how did you get the whole wide world under your stunning spell?
However did you manage to get the universe enthralled inside your infantile little grip?
Oh, you scralet bud of rose and first fig of the poetess and of the summer's early belle!
Oh how you better all the ugly atrociousness of life, that lovely is even your thorns' prick!
For you the the pens of scribbl...
Thursday 13th June 2019 5:34 pm
Thank You Mother
But of all the lies you ever told me
the happy ending
of the fairytale of us was the sweetest!
And of all the lessons you ever gave me
The one not put in spoken words
I made into written law and abide by every day.
Tuesday 11th June 2019 9:26 pm
Father Thank You
But of all the things you gave me
our good name
has been the heaviest to carry...
And of all the things you took away
fear
was the one burden I never had to!
Tuesday 11th June 2019 7:54 pm
Meaning Lost
Among the myriads of nice words in existence
The tasty, the lavish, the flattering, wooing and coy
I search for one that will make some difference
A truth that won't serve as anyone's plaything or toy
I always try to fall asleep right before midnight
Lest I get caught awake when Time changes hands
With but old tricks like "Light makes night bright!"
My mind encircles th...
Saturday 8th June 2019 8:14 pm
Us and Them
- "Sin" is a fearsome word, shameful, effective and frightening.
"Crime" is only good for bad poets, good lawyers and judges.
And a child's protest is such a typical and unimportant thing
It's as common as a sorrowful letter's tear and ink smudges.
An infant's cry is natural and anticipated. No reason for alarm.
And "course of life" we casually name the old man's demise.
...Wednesday 5th June 2019 7:55 pm
Before Life Begins
Come find me in the dark, before life begins
Where I stand tall and unafraid
Where I dwell frustrated yet elated
The darkness where I was born into
The darkness that I was meant for
The darkness where I come from
And where I am to emerge from...
The darkness you're keeping inside...
Come find me in the birthplace of raw ideas
Where we will spend ages shapeless, hove...
Wednesday 29th May 2019 10:18 am
Biblical Joke
Old Noah was a good and pious fella,
Too bad he did not own an umbrella!
instead he had to build an arc; oh the terror!
and all that due to a slight grammatical error.
He wished to proclaim his faith- this humble bloke-
in every way known; but aramaic was all he spoke!
So he decided to hire a tutor of the English tongue,
who could correct and teach him right from wrong.
...Sunday 26th May 2019 10:16 am
It's True
I shall shake off the stench of death, oh, so stale and dull
I shall, I shall.
I will so engage in all that's good, in all that's just and real
I will, I will.
I do so cherish all; and I do love you, see you, hear you.
I do, I do.
I shall shake off the stench of death,oh so stale and dull
I shall fight Him till my last breath before I join His thrall
I will ...
Thursday 23rd May 2019 11:36 am
Last Letter (Epigram #2)
If now's the last hour I tread above the soil
Read this as I lay and bleed
"From womb to tomb, in peace and in turmoil,
I'm yours and yours indeed."
Wednesday 22nd May 2019 8:59 am
Before I Go (Epigram #1)
Should this be my last night on earth
I shall say this with glee
From womb to tomb, from birth to death
I'm yours and yours I'll be.
Tuesday 21st May 2019 8:17 pm
The Penultimate Chapter
And so, they stole her from her bed at night
and brought her to her knees before the hunter.
She felt the cold blade on her; blindfolded tight
and laughed at the edge to make it blunter!
He dropped his crooked dagger and he sighed.
"I suppose the ending can wait for another day..."
He slit the silk in two; she opened her eyes wide!
"It's brighter than I fancy, but I love...
Sunday 19th May 2019 8:43 pm
Maturity
It is the many years passed that cause a man to age
it's not the minutes' quantity
but it's the moments' quality
that make the man a sage.
Thursday 16th May 2019 7:14 pm
Girl's Letter to Shakespeare
Let me to the marriage of untrue, uncompromising minds admit some perks; just for the sake of the argument!
Love may still be love even if it alters when it alteration finds
even if it, for a moment, bends. Remover may remove me from your heart but remove my love from mine cannot!
Oh yes, it is a sudden flash that comes and goes!
It is an ominously flickering orb; it is the drifting ...
Tuesday 14th May 2019 4:04 pm
Will
An irol will
Is as hard as steel
While the eye may cowar
The heart shall dare
to seize the hour,
to fight, to bear.
A sharpened wit
Is as precious as wheat
And a conscience at peace
and free of regrets
like a mother's kiss
on the quivering cheek
of a child that's weak
and frets.
Friday 10th May 2019 8:30 pm
Dread of the Dream
I dread the sight of noble aspirations galloping away
I shiver at the mere thought of a life empty of hope
I fear the coming of the winter, the dying of the day.
But the thing that scares me more than tied rope:
would be to reach the finish line too drained to keep the fire lit.
would be to win the war in vain only to die weary, spent and beat.
So...
If one day you ...
Wednesday 8th May 2019 6:18 pm
Note with Note
Thus
sacred history transpired
Once upon a time, ages ago
The jolly whistling humming tune-bird
flew over to the hastily scribbled timid note-bud.
He fluttered around her in circles and chirped and wooed her! He sung
a crimson ribbon to life and tied it around her neck and cooed and purred!
And Her, the little blue note kissed the sound with her indigo-blue, ink-drenched
l...
Wednesday 1st May 2019 6:52 pm
Rite of Passage
Half-dead, wrapped and sealed in a dusty cocoon
Half-alive, I can feel my senses slowly awakening
And I hearken the wide world outside beckoning
It looks as if I am to hatch and break out soon
I will squint a bit in shock to the incandescent sun,
stretch my sore muscles and my brand new wings,
then I'll come find you my doted love, my only one!
Coyly I'll whisper to you all...
Tuesday 30th April 2019 10:58 am
To Forgive Oneself
I ask this of you: Do not forgive me just yet
You see I'm not quite ready to be pardoned
Spare me time to grieve over my moral debt
For only then can one's guilt be abandoned.
Thursday 25th April 2019 3:59 pm
Quintessential
The only thing
I did that mattered at all
in this wretched life
was that time
I held you in my arms!
Wednesday 24th April 2019 11:59 am
Bleak Era
Lifeless, unyielding stone and granite trees
Upon a concrete earth that scrapes the heel
Slim stalks of wheat not rustling in the breeze
Half-withered blossoms lacking basic will for thrill
Mundane affairs of indifference, vanity and love
Crawling numb, like serpents, bloody on jagged soil
Nothing but pyre, lead and water gathering above
And Us, just empty shells enthrall...
Thursday 18th April 2019 1:16 pm
A Thorn In Joy
Friends and paramours come and go
foes and nemeses stay with you for life
Misery and Joy sit - identical- in a row
ready to take turns; as do Agape and Strife.
And I have lost paramours and friends
And my life's run by nemeses and foes
And Joy and Misery always hold hands
And the thorn grows on the stem of the rose.
Wednesday 17th April 2019 5:26 pm
Girl's Letter To The Beatle
I am not that broken fledgling
you once knew to be weak and little
You helped heal my broken wing
with your lullaby, sweet Beatle!
My eyes are no more sunken
I have arisen, I am free at last
I don't wander around drunken
I have let go of my painful past
I'm not that wounded blackbird,
you once sang about, sweet bard
I am greatful for you every word.
"Sta...
Tuesday 16th April 2019 7:52 pm
In a Dream
In a dream, Clotho destined me to spend my life in a depressing white fluorescent office
Lachesis laughed and said "Til you weave your own death garment you're just a novice!"
Atropos kissed my forehead and tucked me lovingly in my cold, slippery, fateful bedsheets
and then She hung a pair of golden scissors on my bedroom wall right next to my idle wits.
So I snuck away, dragged...
Friday 12th April 2019 10:15 pm
Starchild
I make this wish for you, starchild, oh daughter of Tempest and Thunder!
May your cradle faintly rock-a-bye even in the wildest, most vicious winds!
May the waters; oceans, rivers and seas, before you, split asunder.
May the heavens shine on you, may you grow a set of wings
and may you spread them and surely take to the skies and soar!
May every soft snow flake clad your dainty toe...
Thursday 11th April 2019 7:15 pm
The Wonder of Us
The paramount half of the wonder of "Us"
is that, larger than life, "U"
of you!
Friday 29th March 2019 7:54 pm
Secret Truth
Lightly the young girl dances
around a bonfire; proud of her prized wisdom
While the old man humbly weeps
over all the things unknown; ever, now and hence.
Surely the innocent fawn prances
haughty and ignorant of the looming doom
as the hollow-eyed, huntsman peeps
through the dense foliage of iron-wrought prudence.
Friday 29th March 2019 9:32 am
Love Song
Lonesome lovers loom laments; longing lost love; lo lust!
Odes of ordinary ordeals; of orchid opalescent oases,
Velveteen verses voicing veiled voids; veritably vast...
Eternally embroidering elated, entrancing embraces!
Sirens serenade sweet songs; sinner succumbs.
Obedient, omicompetent Odysseus overcomes.
Nostalgic noblemen never needed nymphs’ nests.
"Graciously go gr...
Wednesday 27th March 2019 2:58 pm
Song
Sirens serenade sweet songs, sinner succumbs
Obedient omicompetent Odysseus overcomes.
Nostalgic noblemen never needed nymphs’ nests
"Graciously go grounding gatecrashing guests!"
Wednesday 27th March 2019 2:55 pm
Love
Lonesome lovers loom laments; longing lost love, lust
Odes of ordinary ordeals; orchid opalescent oases
Velveteen verses voicing veiled voids; veritably vast
Eternally embroidering elated, entrancing embraces!
Tuesday 26th March 2019 5:43 pm
Wake me up at Dream O'Clock
The day the little fledgling starts mentoring the hawk
The night the Earth is sent orbitting around the Moon
If some time soon the lame and crippled stand up and walk
and I see the fierce and tough smell flowers and swoon
When we start blessing the dead to rest in turmoil and not in peace
and life commences with death under a sun that is blue
If Swan Lake is ever performed in a p...
Tuesday 12th March 2019 7:07 pm
Listen well into the Night
The throes of broken lovers
unfold before the light
only when it's dark; late, late, late at night!
Luminous orbs weep
pearlescent tears drip.
Ink on pargmen drops; indigo steeped, deep.
Listen well into the night
the myriads of wrenched souls moan
sax and fiddles serenading: "You are not alone!"
Sunday 24th February 2019 10:31 pm
The Inglorious End
And the angel kept his wings
And the paramour returned
to his trite, ignoble things
Though the flesh still yearned
that, then, was the inglorious end.
Sunday 24th February 2019 10:20 pm
Things That Look Alike
Things that look alike
Volume 1: "Bright and Innocent!"
The cordial smile of a supposed benefactor
The caresses of a new unexplored lover
Freshly cooked up ideas, right out of a young passionate mind; not very well though out
And the hope in the words of the confident orator
and the promises of the formidable father
and his proud posture and big gestures
and the ...
Friday 22nd February 2019 2:51 pm
Resist
Hold on with the claws of your heart
The fight has yet to be fought
The war has yet to start
Nobody asked us if we'd like to enlist!
But the knaves still seek to be bought
Resist! Resist!
Paint with the colors of your eyes
A battle-field of charcoal and aquamarine
Search for mine within the crowds of your allies
Remember! It's on the prices of the stakes that you ...
Thursday 21st February 2019 9:31 pm
Keep it Close
This is for all the days
that you wake up feeling lesser.
This is for all the ways
that the order of the world has forced you to say "Yes, sir."
and feign a smile and take a bow.
For every time you have to clench your teeth
swallow your pride, crease your brow
this is the only thing I can leave you with.
For all the dull afternoons
and for all the lonesome nights.
For...
Tuesday 19th February 2019 2:32 pm
Wrongdoer
If there is ever held a trial in a court of justice
To punish the one who stabbed humanity in the eye,
don't go looking for any monster of extraordinary malice.
Look my way, for the hideous wrongdoer is I.
Rip the clothes off my back and kick me down
Spit in my eye and then hand me the flog,
Because I alone deserve to wear the crown
of the cowardly, hypocritical, whimpe...
Sunday 17th February 2019 3:33 pm
GR (In the South)
GR (In the South)
(revised version)
In the realm of vineyards and olive trees
In the citadel of hot humid nights
We wasted away dancing in the breeze
Counting pointlessly the stellar lights.
The foliage urged us in clandestine meetings
we leaned back and let go of our innocence.
Between childish scribblings and philosophic readings,
entranced by the fragrant...
Saturday 9th February 2019 1:45 pm
It's Always Raining on Lonely Sreet
Pins and needles piercing air through,
Luminous, lonely light
dark, damp, dancing in the dead of night.
Wednesday 6th February 2019 12:18 pm
Shadows and Shades
The shadows of fathers are nasty things
a girl is born in thrall;
Train for the live-chess arena and lure diamond rings
how glamor and grandeurs are dull;
When she closes her eyes she dreams of the sun
She shall claim a second chance through her son.
The shades of mothers are tricky things
a boy grows chasing after it;
That some day she will spread her angelic wings
...Saturday 2nd February 2019 11:49 am
The Right Thing To Do
I've studied the science of being wrong,
I'll say it's rather simple a paradigm:
You just have to remember to nod along
And let people be right all the time.
Most opportune a getaway in a commotion!
You simply forfeit the right to your own view!
Sign up to be the littlest fish in the ocean.
Get eaten first, it's easy. Ends quickly too!
Being perpetually wrong is "...
Saturday 26th January 2019 4:39 pm
Peace
A whirlpool of chaos, monsoon...
slip inside the pupil of the eye and find
peace in solitude.
Friday 25th January 2019 8:13 pm
Prophecy
Before she closed the door to my back
my mother said: "Be wary my child,
Those who are worthy to make their own luck
know to steer clear from what inside runs wild."
I took her words and kissed her forhead
and went on to my well-charted way
I found that a clear safe path lay ahead
I took it and vowed never to stray.
I advanced purposefully towards what
upon my ...
Friday 25th January 2019 6:04 pm
The Queen of Mundane!
I don't like the ways of my arid tongue
I don't like the stiff ways of my pen
I've been trying to sing what's already been sung
And I'm starting to lose my zen.
It feels like my head is made of bricks
Mould is working its way inside,
I'm in permanent stupor and all fresh out of tricks,
mouth agape and eyes open wide!
I hold my reading books upside-down
I write ...
Saturday 12th January 2019 2:13 pm
Mother Goose Puts Her Foot Down
Leave little songbird, go-
-off of my ledge!
or I'll shut the window,
or I'll burn down your perch.
Your cloying chirping keeps
my doted children from slumber
she fusses and weeps
he is always encumbered.
You have lost the flair to lull
only cause ennui and grief
your songs have grown dull
they no longer bring relief.
The tales that you tweet
...
Wednesday 2nd January 2019 6:16 pm
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