Poeticles

Cheers

As countries celebrate the end of the second
Global war their foe surrendering on the seventh
Of May, seventy-five years ago, the town crier
Announces a novel enemy, to humanity

Arising from conspiracies, submicroscopic,
That is quite invisible, to our … CONTINUE READING »

At the edge of life

Deprived of cellular structure man defined
Viruses as organisms at the edge of life,
Yet on life they feed and through natural selection
They evolve to unleash death, a pandemic, terror.

Reports are incongruent, measures bizarre,
Numbers don’t tally and … CONTINUE READING »

Consuming distractions

It is extremely hard for one who loves
Precision and details to accept
The lack of curiosity and attention
On behalf of who is oblivious to the beauty

Of it all.

The pride in caring, about others and oneself
Though … CONTINUE READING »

Absence

I opened the front door to my abode
As I do at morns, for a breath,
Greeting sunbeams, to penetrate
The living room and my skin.

I went further and opened the gate
To my garden, the feeling was strange… CONTINUE READING »

I Love You All

A feeling of unity is ignited by awareness
Picturing so many of us at home, seeking safety
In a lair, facing the same unfathomable challenge,
Existential quandaries imbued with worries and hopes,

Turning to books, films and music to evade … CONTINUE READING »

Motive box

I exited my abode abiding by the rules
After twenty-three days it was “essential”
I printed the required permission form
Puzzling on which motive box to tick.

Work, health treatments or grocery supplies
Mine was not listed so I added … CONTINUE READING »

Life a breath a heartbeat

Emerald leaves fondled by a gentle zephyr
Sway afore me tickling my imagination,
While billows braking over ancient rocks
Beat the rhythm to a symphony of reflection.

As I listen carefully lose my gaze into infinity
A horizon lit by … CONTINUE READING »

Small talk

Someone told someone else I am unable
To face society without a drink in my hand.

They were arguing the genuineness
Of my sentiments of love for humanity due

To my struggle to engage in, small talk.

Unoffended albeit taken … CONTINUE READING »

Ninety Winemakers

Your gentle invitation was one imbued
With wit and wine I could not refuse,
On the road through the country in a flaming red car
From my home to Tuscany under a shining star

Two glasses a bottle of Ripasso … CONTINUE READING »