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I ask you all some pertinent questions!: A poem

Do you think I am feeling pensive, wistful or resigned at the machines in my garden, if I were to believe they were doing more than just pruning my hedgerows? I swear, I can feel sure to react when I get the telepathic feeling stating: Honey, they are shrinking your kids!!! So, would they hold it against me if I did not open my door to the plumber, Continue reading “I ask you all some pertinent questions!: A poem “

All about this world’s existentialism!: A poem

I see the world like a forlorn tree at my window; and I think I shouldn’t wander toward it to pick its fruit. I live battered by a battery of aspirations and refusing to clothe myself in them. The world charge sheeted me before for my hesitation and alleged travesty, I didn’t defend my case with explanations. You keep blaming me over again! I am not anContinue reading “All about this world’s existentialism!: A poem “

Me, Virgo, Monte Cyril Rodrigues!: A poem

I was born on the 8th of September 1964; under the sign of Virgo, but I was actually premature, at six-and-a-half months, so if I had wombed for the entire gestation; I’d have been born a Scorpio-Sagittarius cuspian! I am neither averse to any of the three signs, I just wonder if Mercury still rules me, then! Because at the timeContinue reading “Me, Virgo, Monte Cyril Rodrigues!: A poem “

My Dad, my True Love, and me: A poem

What did I inherit from my Dad? Some people say I remind them of him! But as I look at myself in the mirror I see no similarity, maybe I just can’t tell! He was always a story of past remembrances of the story of Dad and son, repeated every time in the hallways of history, recountable raconteuring in silence There are no mythsContinue reading “My Dad, my True Love, and me: A poem “

The heart has courage of stone, but I am not stone-hearted!: A poem

Mother, I don’t know if I learnt courage from you, but I definitely imbibed a sense of duty from you! And isn’t there immense courage in doing one’s duty? I have inherited innocence from you, and yet much astuteness These are complex contradictions and yet livable maxims I am a cornucopia that’s earned the moniker of being hard-hearted Seldom, does anyone see the gifts in me, that are farContinue reading “The heart has courage of stone, but I am not stone-hearted!: A poem “

Should I linger, despite my reluctance?: A poem

Do you know, I was thinking of going away far from here, where I felt you took the halo off my grounds, off my crown! I was like a garden devoid of leaves and flowers, only hedgerows, reminding me of a rectangular maze with only blind alleys. I looked over my fences and saw the luxuriance of other gardens, butContinue reading “Should I linger, despite my reluctance?: A poem “

Is Porky the Pig welcome in La La Land!: A poem

I don’t care if they grow green beans on the Moon, in the future! Its scant atmosphere is no wafter up my rafter. They used it as the heraldry of love, intuition, Sophia’s wisdom. I didn’t care even to stare at the wolves getting lunatic pangs with blood on their teeth. I just like the pince nez on my nose, withoutContinue reading “Is Porky the Pig welcome in La La Land!: A poem “

All those seventies’ lyrics in time in Mumbai: A nostalgia

There was that old Persian bakery that Dad took me to in Bycullla, near my school; where they served bread pudding. And I remember that it (the restaurant) had the sweetest of smells – of creamy crusty rolls, like a patisserie. It also had a juke box! That was the only restaurant in Byculla, I knew of, that had a juke box! AndContinue reading “All those seventies’ lyrics in time in Mumbai: A nostalgia “

Time for departure!: A poem

I think of departure with words, A brief, leaving me gasping for more! And time’s treachery leaves so much abrupt And the treachery of humanity even more so; But I think my jetliner must depart… to some place where I’m not sure I’ll end up This is a bad start…and a false start…with no finish line! But I am in a painfulContinue reading “Time for departure!: A poem “

Can I not depend on anybody?: A poem

You are all subjecting me to a falsification of my values. My poor axioms and principles like an island surrounded by an antagonistic, hostile sea! Or by a maze, where I can’t seem to find the Minotaur Who will befriend me and raise my coat of arms! Is any heraldry of me, meant to be?! That you all expect me to carry theContinue reading “Can I not depend on anybody?: A poem “