Smiles of my childhood build memories of my age.
As my mother taught me steps to ballroom dances
In the living room, to Cha Cha, Tango, Waltz, and Rumba,
In the car we listened to your voice on cassettes. I … CONTINUE READING »
Heterogeneous
Gathered on a large uphill street to honour a Saint
An heterogeneous constellation of human beings
Raise their chalisses to a golden imposing sun
Toasting a melody encompassing mirific diverse notes.
The orchestra conductor a fantastical kaleidoscopic town
Paradisal a … CONTINUE READING »
Sentimental Ebb
Back and forth my thoughts sway and shudder,
Within me I hear the menacing echo of their ebb
And flow, billows breaking onto amorphous rocks
Amassed to build craggy sharp ravines I strive
To climb, they scar me and scorn … CONTINUE READING »
A day in the life
‘Is she as good as she looks?’
Asked a stranger to an old man carrying
The wicker basket where she blithely lay,
As he strolled her, along the sunny avenue
On a warm spring day.
‘Try her,’ he answered, handing … CONTINUE READING »
Behind my eyelids
I shutter my eyes to see an infinity
of ruby hues reflected on my eyelids
they paint my horizon, take shape as I focus
an expanse of endless fields
filled with crying roses
each tear a droplet of morning dew… CONTINUE READING »
Saving Silence [or Misophonia 3]
Whilst Gordon engages in combing the world
Musing on a square inch of silence, sauntering
Through life into the depths of virgin forests
Desert islands, climbing mountains to dredge
An endangered species playing the violin.
Silence, dawn breaking across six … CONTINUE READING »
White Walls of Black History
Miss Ashanti ‘36, a mulatto beauty, the fruit
Of white men’s pleasure, taken in black damsels’ arms.
Her guardian her uncle, on the Gold Coast she grew
To become a queen by white men courted and pursued.
Jealousy stabbed her … CONTINUE READING »
My sole desire
There is a place, where velvet
Emerald moss blankets ancient rocks,
Shaded by myriad multifarious lush trees,
With which the rocks fancifully coalesce
To artfully raise walls, a secret path an arch,
Beneath which flows, a torrent,
Its voice, gentle … CONTINUE READING »
Let them live
Enchanting notion of life
One which one may live
With a smile, tears only but of joy,
At dawn, bliss before a shining sun
It rose it rises and it will rise again
Elated by its enveloping warmth.
Enchanting notion … CONTINUE READING »
Look at me
As if I were all that exists.
As if I were the only remnant of beauty left.
As if I were your sole desire.
As if nothing else mattered.
Look at me.
Hypnotise me with your gaze, let me fall… CONTINUE READING »