Prices are rising: A poem 

Prices are rising like a tide  two-fold and even three-fold  I am downsizing long and wide  My purchases are no longer bold  My wallet feels helpless at the stores  And my needs are wanting and crestfallen  Money gets much less than before  Inflation’s beast is wildly appalling  Poverty is a very questionable breach  of civilisation’sContinue reading “Prices are rising: A poem “

Destiny takes its own time: A poem 

There is no deceit in dishonesty killing lies  An action and word trapezing and never falling  Even failure that is abundant as fields, never fails  It is an ideophone for a success in posterity  Rampage is blind, even when the stake is good causes  There can be an unwelcome friend to avoid losses  Knives areContinue reading “Destiny takes its own time: A poem “

Dear Mum and Dad: A poem 

It is like waking up blind  The sunlight left behind  In a spidery alley  The accidental victim’s galley  Every comma in the footnote  spells the black pain in rote  Life’s blemishes of deluging rain  Hope’s grassroots in vain  It’s daunting when the drop is sheer  Courage like futile sweat and tear  Can’t figure out theContinue reading “Dear Mum and Dad: A poem “

Living in the past, learning from the present: A poem 

Another pebble swallowed by time’s lake  A day gone yonder in dusk’s wake  Stare at the stars that to the skies are glued  And think of childhood’s warming burning wood  I am wedded to picture-frames of the past  The melancholy at happy seasons that couldn’t last  Memories are a river to draw from and dipContinue reading “Living in the past, learning from the present: A poem “