Author Archives: montecyril

The pride and ego of being judgmental  is in one own eyes to stand tall  Prudence sacrificed at prejudice’s altar  Proclaimed self-virtue is on humility a war  The castle of the righteous is in silence  Opinions like scales must be devoid of bias  Conscience is in chaos when morals tumble  Priggishness is a high groundContinue reading “Judging others: A poem “

If of our temples we are the lord  The voice from within is the beseeching of God  For, the joy of the fruits of the haloed womb  is the right of procreation not of a tomb  Plucking out a bud in its bare infancy  A cradle thus undone deserves no clemency  For mother nature solelyContinue reading “Abortion and suicide: A poem “

The time-worn walls of the crumbling edifice  like the phoenix lived for sacrifice  Suffering, for some, is omnipresent like the skies  In its throes, the vigour of individuals and nations dies  How inclement is stormy weather  Causes a docked boat to lose its tether  When harvests are dry, the arid earth  looks in vain forContinue reading “Suffering: A poem “

In the tourist hubs of plenty we prefer to be in action  Disparity’s landfill grows larger when generosity takes a vacation  To own our precious idols our temples must not be soiled  The lamps of our privileges must burn with honour’s oil  Undeserved are the harvests of choice if we fail to see  what ourContinue reading “Of rights and duties: A poem”

When loneliness at doors does sadly knock  When rejection and denial the driveway block  When answers and prayers are only tepid words  When clocks age and break and go unheard  When virtues go unnoticed and bend like burdens  When hard work in unrequited corners lies huddled  When dishonest hearts clutch at the rewards  And corruptContinue reading “Patience: A poem “

Orphans who beg for dimes  become hated criminals in time  Innocents can make a noisome brew  Rats are just the lion’s crew  For, gullible are they scouted for crime  Leaves in the poison ivy’s vine  Who subverts the law and who faces it  is how justice’s dark side is dimly lit  Deeds live in homesContinue reading “Orphans in crime: A poem “

From the fortress of desires  the horses speed like fires  into the penumbra of discovery  And earth like a virgin unclothes  her spirited arms to taste  each falling drop of rain  The sky’s grey body exhales  the stormy moistened gales  And the earth is traumatised  by, both, pleasure and pain.  Like comets bursting together  inContinue reading “Reckoning: A poem “

Sweet nectar on her lips  She sways her lissome hips  How one’s heart rips  Tremble one’s fingertips  A dragon breathes its fire  Through a fairy of desire  One melts at the windfall  The fruit of the serpent’s call  Lightning blazes with thunder’s shout  Dazzled conscience has no clout  Then one is up and about  MoralContinue reading “Temptation: A poem  “

When civilisation began to speak  the first ideas were communicated  And the dust of ignorance settled  into beds of understanding  God’s children began constructing  the first towers of language  So each step took them higher  on the roads to union. And the sky  that shone with its numerous suns  became a universal map to beContinue reading “Babel: A poem “

Roused from sleep and suddenly mother’s shaking voice  had unfurled a nightmare blowing at the windows  rattling like a child’s toy, the screams of the panicked  plagued our ears. Our fears billowing larger than the fire  that spat at us through charred bits of sawed planks.  Asbestos flew like shrapnel in the coke-tanged air  mutingContinue reading “A fire in childhood: A poem “