I burnt courgettes last night
Made a grimace to the tang
My thought instantly challenged
By a startling anthropological idea
What if my taste was not mine?
Perhaps I dislike the miasma
Of carbonised foods for my genes suggest
They … CONTINUE READING »
Conceiving your absence in this world
Is impossible, your death notified
Through Google alerts a surreal version
Of past telegrams written in black. Stop.
Our encounter a decade ago a dreamy memory
I always looked back with a smile, of … CONTINUE READING »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
My dear friend I would like to tell you
That things are good here, all is well
And soon we will meet again, rejoice
Afore a glass of white wine, bathe
Under the sun, play cards by the lake,
Immerse … CONTINUE READING »
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 »
