Author Archives: montecyril

Fly away pretty face  To the arms of eternity race  Take death out of your vase  And with fresh flowers replace  If you had spoken just a word  in it, the song of love would be heard  Your chalice, to us, was that of laughter  A spring relives even after  That you should regale paradise Continue reading “Fly away, my darling Casula: A poem “

You are sidelined because you don’t have two faces  You have worked hard and touched dedication’s bases  You may wonder how the callous snub of fortune races   even though you had your head in all the right places  There is no gesture for idealism; idealism locked horns  A straightforward anathema for the ones with theContinue reading “Stick by dignity (Dear Sisters): A poem “

An old script becomes young when deciphered  An ancient world awakens and is quietly heard  Horses and men, armour, sword and wherewithal  Captives and victims, rapined landscapes, victors have it all  A stampede from ambition, a riot out of unquenched greed  Ages of misdirected conviction, control being the creed  A thumbnail of the forgotten, aContinue reading “History repeats itself: A poem “

The abominable castles in the sky  where innocence’s balloon was untied  to the breaches of humanity shanghaied  The injustice of men is their bligh  A lamb’s bleating will go unheard  above the illegitimate master’s word  Whose milk is their whey and curd?  Feeding the profane and absurd  Their wool occludes our vulnerable eyes  In ourContinue reading “Tigers are in cages: A poem “

Between Leo and Virgo, and Virgo and Libra  the islands were made of crystalline stars  And their Titans flourished, sequestered by sea  A civilisation so exotic, lands so fair and free  Huge pillars of stone and Poseidon’s throne  Long-lived gods in these soils were borne  But a madness of evil grew in the bone  NoContinue reading “Atlantis: A poem “

The foliage of tender immaculate memories  prolific and vibrant like monsoon-fed trees  And the harmonious inviting song of the seas  with waves obliging my guiltless seeking knees  And the squeak of relentlessly wetted sands  between my toes and sifted by my hands  Coconuts drifting, bobbing from far off lands  Goats foraging noisily in shepherded bands  FoxesContinue reading “Lost soul of a homeland: A poem “

Gullible innocents believe too much in deceit  Punishment for crime has been no receipt  The Age of Man could horribly repeat  Honestly, truth faces resounding defeat  Whose god is ours in untimely hours?  Fiction takes fact like the sky takes stars  The body of space is filled with this lace  The theatre of earth washedContinue reading “Man: A poem “

Loose threads in the heads where our ambition beds  We left no stone unturned to what progress has us led  Our pills are quick but still as a dammed motionless rill  Our story cannot recall the glory of truths modernity did kill  We know a lot; we think we learnt a lot, and yet simply still Continue reading “Loose threads: A poem “