I am alone as I wait for you
Toying with colours by the tree,
Slowly undressing fading emerald
Into brittle rustling amber Didi and Gogo
Are nowhere to be seen. With patience
And anticipation I read the longest novels,
I … CONTINUE READING »
TOO DARN HOT
As Dostoevsky and the Karamazov have been lying
on my belly for the past half hour I am musing
on a chocolate cake, soft sponge, creamy frosting
dark cold icing, my mouth watering in anticipation
my mind perusing the kitchen, … CONTINUE READING »
A halcyon love affair [or Meletao 2023]
I bide my time awaiting, the next full moon as if
This one more than others knows how and wills
To seduce me, entrance me, revive me, adroitly
Laying promises on velvet blankets
For me to surrender and yield my … CONTINUE READING »
Nescient moves
The mind plays games with which the player
is unacquainted.
Its rules are hidden and to be divined
embracing courage,
for the player to take a nescient move.
***
And with each move
to stumble and fall, reluctantly its skin… CONTINUE READING »
Spanish Painted Pigeons
Though my consciousness enjoins my body to acquiesce
To a tired will pleading to resist, my legs subdue volition
Elect my path conjuring me to surrender, to temptation
An enchantment promising respite repose and relief.
I yield, cave and relinquish … CONTINUE READING »
There’s a hole in the bucket, Harry.
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 »