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One can’t resolve every question  One can’t storm every bastion  The needle in the haystack one should forsake  A dream shouldn’t go beyond daybreak  There is no meaning in midnight oil  when we only need a season’s harvest from the soil  The tongue gets scalded from water on the boil  A heart goes bankrupt from tooContinue reading “Overambition: A poem “

You ask me whether I’m happy or sad  I say I am both grieved and glad  A tad low at the troubles I mop  But proud that I bravely cop  There’s some vinegar and some wine  like a mix of flavours in my sip and dine  Anxiety is not my favourite line   I challenge theContinue reading “Drying petals in my book: A poem “

I can feel the city working on my nerves  A poetry, not poetry, inhabit my verse  A paranoia of a child over a broken favourite toy  The weakness of a lethal fever despoiling my joy  The city is a fanged serpent spiraling in the night  Seeking rats under streetlamps; and predatory kites  looping chains aroundContinue reading “Purple dawns, like nights: A poem “

These mortal instincts, blindsided by ideals  The eternal mind, rushing playing fields  And then the endless earth, gushing its histories  lapping the feet of ancient world mysteries  That are as old as God, who started with a word  set time’s lyric, as fleet as a bird  She knows this motion, this rhythm and rhyme  TheContinue reading “The girl with the grail: A poem “