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Look at us! We can remember even your shining face that was held circumspect by your Father; so much it shone at your birth (!), your skin so effervescent that Lamech your doubting father called on his father Methuselah for judgment, who then corresponded with Enoch, his father. Did they all think you were begottenContinue reading “What the cumulative poetry of the animals said to Noah: A poem”

I saw a woman waiting for a bus, she seemed so frail she could barely stand, And she was tugging a laden bag with her. Some people are strong willed enough to carry their own burden like a saving grace! We live in an age of social welfare, of handouts, of medical subsidies, of mealsContinue reading “This is what I have to say about the world!: A poem”

Was the sky ever pitch black? Never altogether opaque, to my eye where I could see through like a kind of transparency and talk to unhearing stars in their empty gazing And I learnt to call the darkness that surrounds them pitch black and, dawn brightness! Does it (dawn) afford hope with all the clandestineContinue reading “Noir and then: A poem”

I, sometimes, think I ought to give up sitting at the keyboard, writing poetry You know writing doesn’t come as easy as folding clothes or iron-pressing them But it is not a chore. Even if writing one’s thoughts can lay you bare, with no masquerade of masks, no diatribe of disguise to protect you fromContinue reading “Love and the predicament of love: A poem”

I seek all the words that gave me life through the passages of time, the names I loved, and the ones I struggled with! If you think my deepest secrets are only conjecture, only fantasy, only hallucination…And a convoluted system thinks that my self-expression is a crime! I have not eaten apples from other people’sContinue reading “If I am constantly humiliated…: A poem”

I ‘ve always shone the torch on time No matter if I, myself, didn’t feel live wire Something stopped me from being a cadaver I was like a constant breeze that circled space We can only be what we are in silent stone Even when so many want to shatter our bastions But, what doContinue reading “When the pain gets beyond you….”