Category: Poetry

*** It has happened before but can’t happen again When fairy-tale whirl reaches everyday kin. Life becomes new as one kisses a frog. Princes will naturally just feel agog. Yet infinite wonders can sometimes restore, What panic of fantasies cannot deplore: More marvels and miracles vested in fable Than muses and monsters divest with a…

In a derelict world, We need Kindness. Yet, kindness may not be enough. * Recklessness takes away strength, Compels us to carry the cost and Turns us to strife * In a world of strife We need Patience. * Patience to bear what is raw Will turn against us Transform us to fighters Who savour…

*** Green lights An orgiastic future fades How to grasp when the tension Between the possible and impossible Fails? * A blueish lawn turns frosty And naked feet will never progress Along the faded roses. Futile fears Turn the city into shadows Wailing about their loss. * We live in obscurity Possessed by reckless Dreams…

Flapping ears mark her longing to fly But the bitch never misses a ball. Frisbees, sticks, anything will do She catches high balls or curves Gleefully straining and running for her life Jumping higher than any cow, trying for the moon. Grannies and children beware! The exuberant buoyancy of this dame Takes no prisoners: Greetings…

He said: I’ll miss you too. He said: we’ll stay in touch. Weeks passed * She waited unwearyingly, trusting his words. Once she wrote and every day afterwards She looked for his non-existent answer. She puzzled about it but found no reason: Nothing to solve the riddle That haunted her waking hours and Turned to…

*** Beyond the obscure city’s Green light and blue grass Rolls the sea under the night sky. The beach is empty, though A boat against the current Beats on, borne on the waves. Incoherently, steadfastly, it Moves into the past. * There the Norns spin their endless yarns, Waiting for storms to Upset the world.…

Noble pursuits of gracious souls Perfume the garden where resides That unattainable courteous devotion Walled in by ideals or ruled out as unruly. Minstrels build castles in the air bending the ears of Exquisite maidens who never age or change; Box hedges and labyrinths lead the applicants To bowers of roses where turtle doves nest.…

Prism of molten crystal Red-hot miracle of light, heat, and skill Fiery inferno throwing sparks and glittering shards As the cutters scream through to the core or graze the surface Crafting fabulous shapes and abysmal compositions. Shapes of distinction meet frozen eagles Or strange blossoms budding among stars and spangles Secret visions create chandeliers that…

Branchy silhouettes Hide lost secrets in misty veils Golden leaves drop on wet greensward In the twilight. Is the grass greener in this Murky light? *** Lit windows cast warm beams into the evening But geese depart and call hoarsely In the skies *** Chestnut vendors peel away the shells Of seared nuts to clear…

Give me a clue or a reason, my dove A reason to think and to dream, though in anguish, and find my belief In the nature of love A nature, I trust, that will judge me with favour And not let me sink to the base, though in trouble, the base of a reef That…