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Embers of history are no relics of gold  The oft-told story has no veracity in bold  The past is a corpse lying in mysterious dark  A graveyard of truth, which is seldom marked  Museums are no foundries of the lives that were led  Their artefacts don’t mourn for the veins that bled  Evil guns brought victoryContinue reading “A museum bears no truth: A poem “

The dog seems to have won  The bird has done a few too  The cat sits on a mighty tree  The cow is asking for more  The sheep can fly a hive  The duck also knows the fix  It’s the horse who knows heaven  The pig doesn’t have to wait  The elephant divines wine  IfContinue reading “A little great trivial: A poem “

Is God a eunuch decorating a corrupt queen?  The rood of a tyrant inflicting wounds on a has-been  Is he a deluge for innocents and an ark for the elite?  When dusk is daylight, is his justice chaff or wheat?  In the computer’s memory, there is every byte of crime  Every unsuspecting river, the oceanContinue reading “God: A poem “

From the violet sky, gulls gather around my ankles  hungry, squawking, like my thoughts in tangles  The sea like a smog-veiled bride chants her despair  sobbing on the shore’s shoulder, her groom’s snubbing glare  A shell lies curled and precarious in a child’s hand  She crushes it nonchalantly and flings it into the sand  InnocenceContinue reading “Prospects: A poem “

I can break a chair in anger  I can turn off the telly in despair  I can take a walk ruing loneliness  My emotions can become a nuisance  I can count my pennies like a miser  I can hear the phone ring and not answer  These rooms are always so mysterious  And their treachery canContinue reading “Without you, Mother: A poem “