TELEPHONE How incredible the way it works To the techno-illiterates, magic Communication enhanced greatly Even semi-illiterates still cannot believe it Masts, cables, micro-chips All for the communication "magic" The techno-literates thank their stars For they understand the principles behind Two persons speaking each to the other A great distance apart though The mere thought of […]
LORD, WHO WILL I MARRY? LORD, WHO WILL I MARRY? Underneath the doleful clouds Stood I lone and haggard Ashore a forlorn sea Mooning over To the tale of sad-love The giants who marry their graves And the sweet nectars Which later turn to poison For the conjugal bees In their marital flowers I’ve heard […]
BROKEN She took death pills while counting her curses. A brutal husband and a barren womb… Her disconsolate heart, grave grief, nurses. She took death pills. While counting her curses, Her fidgeting hands scrawl suicide verses. She hopes to find rest in a quiet tomb. She took death pills while counting, her curses, A brutal […]
CLARITY To sail with eyes close is to head for doom Might hit an iceberg, mighy hit a trap-boom! Even with half sight: a more terrible fate Nothing can save us, not even blind faith See the big picture, make it a reality, With strong morals, bring out intergrity, Marry sensibility, knot it with responsibility, […]
JOROMI JOROMI [god of swaying legs] Call the rain to gather again Tell the dark cloud to shield upon our land Let the winds whistle rhythmically In the ambience of those trained palms Jarring tempted beats. Joromi, Our land has cheated you. But tonight, Our hips wouldn’t go weary For we shall dance to hail […]
CHILD (For Universal Children’s day) Child Carry me you said, “Up on high” I hoisted you onto my shoulders. We traveled someway up ahead, and then set-off again, on foot. “Everybody in the world are cousins,” you said. “Yes variably so, by nature of creed and kinship.” “You always had problems with hearing,” you asked. […]
Grace Grace Gently sailed O’er troubled waters Grace begotten, thats all that matters Heart muttering songs of an overcomer Changed, my life was, from the former. Grace- undeserver thy psalmist cry In stormy weather and cloud, the worthy thy In drowning hopes, saved my soul Till I was dancing with swaying trees: that’s thy role. […]