Friday 20 April 2018

Himalayas

Often a muse for my paintbrushes
and innumerable canvas papers.

I am being summoned
to paint, in my eyes these mountains now.

So, way up yonder north,
live these dignified majestic peaks.

Oh! Am I being summoned,
to be humbled by these mountains now?

Intact white, garbed in snow.
Where drums breathe heavily,
fires dance untamed,
and rivers sway green and blue.

Before I resign.
Before I run out of breath,

I am being summoned
I am being summoned
to perish gracefully at these mountains now.

 

Thursday 19 April 2018

Twilight sparks

Words burn
the meek paper.
But papers,
not enough.
 
We kindle fire!
From blazing fire,
words hastily roar.
Thunder. Triangles.
 
Allow us to touch you.
We’ll do our share
like the groan of drums
to set you alight.
 
Let the world catch fire
and stumble on radiance.
From those little sparks
that were stirred by this Twilight.
 

Drunk

With intoxicated eyes
a gleaming tinge He conveys,
of a mysterious thread
constantly breaking this blistering insane.
One more word.
Just one more glance.
Just once more
to be drunk on His eyes again.
 

Meditate

First, her face dissolved with the walls.
Then her hands, she couldn’t feel.
Her feet vanished,
and so did her shoulders.
All that lingered, was her throbbing spine.
Everything else, flawless spacious infinite.
 
 

Poetry

Poetry kills.
Its magic traps us
in its serpentine fragrant passages,
now and again.
Rendering us feeble
before the sweetness that it is.
 

O Dearly loved!

I wait, Nervy, eager, in anticipation Like the first birth of a child Heart quivering to clasp him close Nights bereft of sleep Like a new...