The good-bye train Oh! the good-bye train You’re here~ & somehow, the world I know is about to fade. My home, my garden My books, my violin Can’t pack a life in a backpack now Can we? Steaming, whistling Smiling, jostling You’re so ready You lucky wheels Roll your life on the go – but … Continue reading
Spelling secrets
I met her here – on this floor didn’t see her face the first time, only heard her speak – once Words – just words waving, floating trespassing~ into the folds of dress and shivers misspelled then I saw her not eye to eye but secretly, spoke of sin a sweet lust and her delicate … Continue reading
Sporeling
Ocean is not our distance Silence is~ we fathom it Yet we get nowhere Possibilities asleep in seeds We are prisoners our In our own fortress A gift of light, warmth and rain and we can be As alive As we want to be Love is not our redemption Togetherness is a myth Yet we … Continue reading
Unto
Part of me instills the fear that one day Ambling on the bank of plush green lake, In lukewarm and sultry shadows of banyan and peepal, Would be my last, and my footsteps on soft mud smeared, overstepped. Well, as much as disillusioned perpetual reality Eternity may seem like, Isn’t exactly what I nurture, Standing … Continue reading
Baccara
Those who noticed, saw her beautiful hands fingers long and supple As brush, waiting for paints Most didn’t see beyond eyes cloud of messy hair or misty coy glasses ‘Loneliness will become your problem, girl‘ said her mirror every day and the fluffy rag doll- that grew up with her; she would look at it, … Continue reading
The waste we seek
Fill it with depravity of moss And you will end up creeping down a slippery, deep well Lit a fire, and you can Be an inferno, To sweep through Anything, really. A dewdrop of vitality A heart of ocean And a bleak canvas- Born possibilities yet, we fritter, and probably will Through the wavy ocean … Continue reading