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O Bombay, would I despise you or love you?!: A poem

I thought, I thought of never going back to those silhouettes of chimneyed polluted air And skyscrapers that ate up the mangroves and streets going somewhere, only to block the drainage with so much garbage that there is a perennial deluge when it rains. I am trapped in the sphere above a metropolis of 25 million, almost the demographic sizeContinue reading “O Bombay, would I despise you or love you?!: A poem “

The gressorial is more than the Camino way?: A poem

I dreamed of taking more than the Camino way… More than James’ way…Up from Santiago de Compostela, where the Cathedral of Saint James is located, to Rosslyn, with its motifs in stony grimoires of green men. And I thought: Was it about James the Great, or the real legend James the Lesser – James the Just to be exact,Continue reading “The gressorial is more than the Camino way?: A poem “

Of brave Donald Quixote and Vance Sancho Panza!: A poem

You know how bonds of friendship can be paper-shredded by an overwhelming villainy; and loyalties can be butchered by a tyranny of scoundrelling bodygrabbers. The legend of Don Quixote can never grow old and tired; even if its protagonists are wracked by a demeaning calumny, which the instigators deserve more than their targets. Do rats have a perfect place in theContinue reading “Of brave Donald Quixote and Vance Sancho Panza!: A poem “

Would I be moonstruck? Would I be wonderstruck?: A poem

I was wondering tonight if I could watch the moon throw shadows in persuasion at me! I am limpid as air, but not limping water I am a chronic romancer, but no crone Would you believe that Allah got Parkinson’s in contagion with the crone he slept with? I am as moonstruck as wonderstruck, tonight that I chance toContinue reading “Would I be moonstruck? Would I be wonderstruck?: A poem “