Unfold the map of the world and trace
a kaleidoscopic boot-shaped country
rising from the waters lavished by Atlantic
in a multicultural basin at the heart
of a flat globe. The Mediterranean birthed
by the Zanclean deluge, witness of myriad… CONTINUE READING »
A revolution
They tell me in man
lies the source of evils
as weakness surrenders
to ineluctable lures.
That he pursues aims
of personal interest
out of egocentric greed
prompting justice, inequity.
That he turns blind eyes
to the sufferings of others… CONTINUE READING »
Happy Holi
I saw colours on people’s faces
chewed on the entheogenic leaf,
flew me straight across the vastness
over mountain chains peaks and cliffs,
shattered cities rivers of wilderness
murdered innocents jungles,
dictatorships steppes nomads
and deserts to the cradle
of … CONTINUE READING »
Mothers to adore
Countries fabricated
by roaming people drawing
borders behind them,
trails of hostility
to select those who would cross
rims after them, to keep
resources to themselves,
lands of prosperity
on which to build, greed
homes to shield,
newly engendered families… CONTINUE READING »
As none
Why is it so arduous
for us to believe we are
beguilingly startling
creatures as none?
Whilst we look at others
we call animals and remain,
befuddled by the perfection
of a nature we reclaim,
temporary beings
roaming freely a … CONTINUE READING »
Unexpected invitation
You took me dancing by the harbour
after snow fell the night, covering
sand and sea in white for an instant
mist in my eyes, as we twirled
towards dizziness held
by the heated pressure of your right
hand posed … CONTINUE READING »
New Love
Not so long ago it was nice there was a pride,
in being a lady gracious delicate and polite,
unostentatiously educated able to hold,
a conversation with kings and commoners
the same, alacritously witty, smiling imbued,
in appropriateness infusing tenderness, … CONTINUE READING »
Buran winds
February departs with promises of spring
abandoning premature buds yellow
on solitary mimosa trees left
to freeze and shiver under the unwanted
caress of Russian buran, sternly gliding
over mounts rivers and valleys to cross
the unsurmountable Urals, past graves… CONTINUE READING »
Power
A stranded auburn brittle leaf before me
surrenders to the deftly sweep of zephyr,
coriolically swirling to elevate its conquest
into an air of revolving molecules, colliding,
split by ultraviolets to recombine, ceaselessly
creating shielding layers of evanescence, rare,
delicate, … CONTINUE READING »
The pendulum
Tick-tock the hands of the clock plock
the pendulum swings to the immutable
rhythm of hypnotic seconds measuring time,
the soundtrack to the great oeuvre that is
our life. An existence we perceive
ephemeral, thus instinctively preparing
suitcases since inception, … CONTINUE READING »