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I turn the tempo of temperament like a wheel in fortune’s lap, like a slap of something delectable on my tongue! I am sorry that I forgot to clean last dinner’s food-droppings on the floor. It’s left the scurrying roaches something to feast about through the night! But I am reliving the moments of savour.Continue reading “This is my legacy, this is my culture, this is my tradition, this is my history!: A poem”

I am drowning in a brandy, or beer Thinking that my tale is not that of King Lear I am just touching my sixty-second year! And what do I hear, what do I hear?! I hear it like a knock on the door, so near! Like a squat on the floor, right to my earContinue reading “O what beautiful wings so many visiting kindred spirits give me!!!: A poem”

I see these mountains of simple folk descend on me, these glowing orbs of feminine spirits rush down like a marching army to strike me with wonder, If this was an empowerment between us, O Motherhood(!) of ancestral women blowing through an emancipating wind a magic glow, like a heraldry that shouts the indispensability ofContinue reading “On the inspiring, illuminating apparition of all those beautiful Goan women: A poem”

You and me, we are like trees, barely touching, but full of our embrace! I see us wandering in different gardens but imbibing of the same fragrances; like golden flowers whose similitudes are only apparent in ether. Even so, we partake of the same nectarine ambrosia, in different cups. And I feel I am streamingContinue reading “I am divine in you, you are divine in me!: A poem”

I don’t think he needed go-go girls or cheerleaders to give vibes to his performances; and what performances they were in a hard corner, of a pokey apartment on a lower-class suburban street! His aspirations were on the much-abused list, languishing as they were, as if they would, in any case, become cup meals forContinue reading “Houdini as star-crossed cross bearer: A poem”

Is love an open-ended word like galvanising an everlasting endeavour, or actually just a jigsaw to be shattered in frustration, serving as a task of taking away the productivity of  travail toward the end-purpose. I see a dawn fall into a cusp of belief and unbelief, trust and distrust of love against the backdrop ofContinue reading “Aubade: A poem”

Give me the Taurus of Ulysses though I don’t spite Aquarius Give me the Sagittarius of Ulysses not the Pisces Then I’d accept the moniker Ulysses, though I prefer Odysamoi! I believe the Romans habitually perversified Greek titles! You know, I adulated Hercules, untill I learnt he killed lions and mythic heroes know more difficultyContinue reading “You know James Joyce, I have Ulysses (Odysamoi) written all over me!: A poem”

I was angry over my brandy yesterday till the dark blue sky clothed me with its means of subsidence. I woke up with the same old grace, ready to apologise for my impromptu impatience. A friend told me it was lucky I didn’t kill, because I have such a fine mind. You know, I didn’tContinue reading “What is conformism? What is crime? And what is contravention?: A poem”