Three minutes is the time I will concede
Allow myself to indulge in fancies
Think of you build a fantasy, imagine
A sensual approach, a whim
A moment. Minute one,
You look at me lasciviously
Dilated pupils sapphire wells
Enticing … CONTINUE READING »
He simply can’t make
Ends meet a salary is not
Enough to feed a family pay the bills
Prays the landlord keeps his calm
A little patience in a bucket of goodwill.
He awakes at dawn
Each day to catch … CONTINUE READING »
Shapeshifter you enticed me, capable of sorcery
You conquered me, through surreal courtship
Shot my body with intoxicating doses of oxytocin,
Drew my memories blowing rings of smoke.
I retrace our story with scientific meticulousness
To grasp the event which … CONTINUE READING »
Lupercalia was the name of celebration
For the coming of spring, promises of blossom
Announced by whistling birds engaging
In mating games a season of fertility
Where senses of revelling humans reawaken
And merriments introduced a lottery binding
Men and … CONTINUE READING »
Seldom have I experienced
Reality eclipsing fantasies
Secret wishes heeded
Sensibility sensing the untold,
Our glances spoke, a language
Of pretence playing nonchalant
Venturing chancing touches
Igniting shivers I tried to retain,
Flames in my chest deepened
My inhales, two … CONTINUE READING »
Take me, pretend it is not
Our first time, I have made love
To you a thousand times before
In my mind my day dreams
And at nights, I am nervous
Fear nothing will equate
My imagination, your virility
It … CONTINUE READING »
He dresses his emotions in white
The colour of lies, told to self not to subdue
To an avalanche of unfamiliar happiness
Locking up truth in a dusty cabinet
Above the stove where coffee brews.
He smokes cigarettes to occupy … CONTINUE READING »
For some reason I love you,
I wanted to tell you, last night yet I didn’t,
Thought you might find it weird.
And it is, an awkward necessity
Perhaps a human one, to say the words
From time to time … CONTINUE READING »
She was not conceived nor is she now
yet she was born in secret for no one
was there to witness the event, the first,
how from the hottest womb she was expelled,
into creations engineered by a talented brother,… CONTINUE READING »
I blithely strolled down narrow alleys
Enveloped by scents of Arab sweets
Through the ruins of Jupiter’s temple
Into the endemic liveliness of the souk.
Enraptured by excited merchants
The colours of their treasures, the arts,
The fruits, the vegetables, … CONTINUE READING »
