I woke up to cheeping birds at last
The relentless patter on my window silenced.
That drizzling melody once so precious
A gentle invitation to indulge in idleness
After thirty days transmuted
Into hounding humming greys. Incessant rain.
Since the … CONTINUE READING »
My son died four months ago.
He was loved. He was lovable.
I hear his older brother cry sometimes
They were not just brothers, they were friends.
No one truly knows what it’s like to lose a son.
If you … CONTINUE READING »
Bring me back to you in eight
Minutes they are all the time
On my hands before I wash
The dye off my curls.
Weakness my skin prickles
My hands grab the edges of the sink
Hypnotised I am distracted… CONTINUE READING »
“This is no discussion, you need to leave,”
Says the husband to his wife, as shells
Are dropped nearby, blasts and black smoke
She cries, taking her ten-months baby girl
A toy, her pacifier, two coats and a few clothes.… CONTINUE READING »
Pure, white. Nature dresses in white.
A bride abandoned at the altar by a groom
Who ignored her, used her, abused her,
Told her she was beautiful he couldn’t
Live without her then exploited her
Till her very last resource.… CONTINUE READING »
The nightingale fears being attacked
By the big brown bear as its stomach growls,
The alliance threatens the bear and arms the nightingale.
The golden eagles are rich in gas and minerals
Yet cannot afford heating their eyries.
The big … CONTINUE READING »
I never left you yet I am back.
A year is over another just began.
You measure time with my presence,
With the smiles I offer the hour I pass by.
You gaze out your window, sit at the bar,… CONTINUE READING »
My possessions are all brown
Though they differ in sizes
Rectangular prisms are conquering my abode.
I gaze at the piling boxes
Recycled at the supermarket as I refused
To pay to cage my belongings.
From my viewpoint they are … CONTINUE READING »
Inhibition never was a word, on the lines
Recounting my life as I helloed the spirits
Crossing my path regardless of who they were.
To me they were all human friends and I
Loved them just as I loved myself.… CONTINUE READING »
Whirl with me in eddies of stars
Feel the lightness of our bodies as we dance
To the enchanting melody of silence
On a stage so immense we will never meet its end,
Where sound is trapped in emptiness
And … CONTINUE READING »
