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I do not speak my grief  that love was a thief  Lessons were brief  No tears shed over a dead leaf  The heart has a boundary  Not for all and sundry  Yes, it cannot help being broken  when dusk for dawn is mistaken  Can tell the plaster from the varnish  Deception’s voice cannot garnish  I seekContinue reading “A broken heart doesn’t grieve: A poem “

The house is in pallour  without a caller  Its spaces are blank  Nobody in its flanks  Devoid of any laughter  Silence before and after  Frigid is its air  Stony is its ware  With no flowers in the garden  Watching the seasons harden  An empty heart cannot pardon  that fate brings it no guardian  How doesContinue reading “The lonely house: A poem “

O the clouds are beyond reach  So is the horizon on the beach  I have but a little dream  The banks of a winding stream  Dark is the moonless night  when the stars are out of sight  I fail to mitigate my plight  even though I’m dressed in white  Meek is the wind on myContinue reading “An aspiration: A poem “

Grief is a loveless arm  A broken promise lost of its charm  The barren soil after a farmer’s toil  A fruitless burning of midnight oil  Meeting grief at every corner  The child’s wish that the parent dishonoured  The congealed ink of a writer’s block  Age moving in on the clock  But will I shudder atContinue reading “Grief: A poem “

If the stars hung low  would they be robbed of their glow?  The publicised icons that we know  in our reckoning are not just so-and-so  We wax eloquent over their battles won  We applaud their lifestyle, and it is done  to celebrate their rollicking blazing fun  For empty lives entertainment is thus won  If reasonContinue reading “If the stars hung low…: A poem “

Solitaire as he cooks up his meal  He strips the onion of its peels  Eggplant does as fleshy veal  in a vegetarian’s deal  Life’s vacuousness sings with the exhaust  Talents are no mirth when vision is lost  For no one shares dreams that don’t last  Only the present fades into the past  Can patience beContinue reading “Solitaire: A poem “

They built their crosses on stone  where the light of temples once shone  The legacy of the saints  was coated in treachery’s paint  Thieves with hearts as black as peat  gullible nations to cheat  The sword if we should resist  The prison of heritage’s heist  Learnt our prayers from a borrowed book  In turn, ourContinue reading “Cross words: A poem “

Salt beads on my face  as fledgling passions race  I can now see through the haze  And find my way out of the maze  Let honesty evaporate from the skies  Give them lies in return for all their lies  Virtue is the cripple of impunity  Hypocrisy for greater good is not indignity  The wicker cradleContinue reading “Revenge: A poem “

The depths pervade at every height  Monsters don’t sing for what is right  Conscience doesn’t echo in corruption’s sight  Power brokers all the black and white  Leaves turn to dust in malevolent weather  The birds that fly are without feather  Holy cows have been slaughtered for their leather  Goals have been struck by the crafty’sContinue reading “Extinction of goodness: A poem “

There’s many a reason to believe that the consumer is king. But this harassed husband of a spendthrift wife wouldn’t quite agree. “Or why,” he asks, “does the friendly neighbourhood shopkeeper laugh his way to the bank?” His confident wife, in turn, told her concerned bosom buddy: “He wouldn’t divorce me over my shopping bills.Continue reading “Prices are the shopkeeper’s vices: Just for laughs “