As I listen to sapient voices speak
Of a universe of endless wonder
Enthralling curiosity entreating discovery
Sparking creativeness sharpening wit,
Beguiling bounded senses aspiring to go beyond,
To feel the ethereal substance of the unfathomable,
Reach for the unreachable, … CONTINUE READING »
Blinded by successions of tragedies I am
Looking for you, your shape, your form,
Your essence, your substance, seeking your words,
Your embrace, your empathy, your courage,
Your sorrow, your grief, your resilience, your tears,
Your frustrated anger, the bravery … CONTINUE READING »
My dear fish, feels like the world is going bonkers,
Humanity has stumbled upon a bizarre newfangled disorder
Compelling it to walk backwards, blind to its retroceding course,
Blind to its sombre direction, its dismal destination,
All it sees is … CONTINUE READING »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
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And with each move
to stumble and fall, reluctantly its skin… CONTINUE READING »
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 »
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 »
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 »
