Thursday, March 5, 2020

The Star Herself

The eyes do her talking,
For her voice decided restrain
Like the glitter of white,
On this star-struck night,
Their shine speaks for them.

Twinkle eyes behold the stars twinkle.
Glowing eyes on a palm-sized face.
As if stars, which though unfathom huge,
Glint like minuscules on the black canvas of the dark sky.

She has a passion to stargaze,
A love beyond dimensions,
Of secrets and confessions,
Of permanence,
A love devoid of betrayal.

The ocean laps and swaddles the bay,
Her feet impression the sand beneath
The eyes still set admiring the black,
She is the star herself, a star away.

The Night Dreams Bled (A War Poem)

The earth cracked, shook the bricks,
A deafening thud with a death tryst.
The air pierced by swords and rifles,
Silence silenced by burning bibles.

Lives forced out of homes,
Out of love and out of bones,
Out of care, out of their share,
All you hear are fatal moans.

The dove was killed yesterday,
As shrooms of smoke took over the face of Earth,
Nations bled as people fled.
Scar-let turns the soil of mirth.

The war savage does more ravage,
Until we lead to cataclysmic doom.
My sleep breaks in time for good
And the battledust barely negates my room.

A Word's Worth

They say words don't matter,
But they do.
Ignore all you want,
But the word is true.

Words spoken ages ago,
In humour, angst or heavy blow,
All unite to pierce fine,
At the apt place and apt time.

Words spoken to your face,
Or those behind your back you heard.
Turning you against you,
Word to word.

Words that didn't matter then,
Words you didn't care about.
Words flung upon you,
Now is silence, now you shout.

You act like there's no care,
But the night gets darker,
And in the dark on your thoughtless mind,
Words wage a war,
And pain is all that's left behind.

Words preceded by "no-offence"s and "don't-mind"s,
Those latent in hurtful lines,
Words not meant to be taken to heart,
And words, they're so full of art.

Words pain, words hurt,
Words they lie with honesty.
Words, they speak and words, they shriek
Words, they're laced with mystery.

Paradise

(Dedicated to the town of Dalhousie)

A vision intense, no words pretense,
A placid for eyes, a stunned sense.
Blue peaks through foggy eyes,
The fog breathes to mesmerize.
The sol seldom gives a hint,
Though the sod does enough.
The whites and greens melange through,
To blink your eyes is oh so tough.

A pinch full of dotted township,
Gallons full of paradise.
Creamy frostings on sloped canopies,
Clouds lined with milky white.

My soul is captive of this pearl of eye,
To free myself, I will not try.
Play along, I wish I could.
Had the world not called me home.
Home back to crowded voids,
To scattered papers, to deafened cries,
To shadowy smirks of no paradise.

Thursday, February 6, 2020

"HE"


When you sink in blues,
He'll care to save.
And steer your melancholies
to innocent pleasing tales.
He'll stand by, as he always did,
He won't ever see you morose.

He has his woes and worries,
More than you can reckon.
Yet he cares, cares for you to be alright
So he'll fix you, 
your broken will and your broken being.

He's got none who fret for
None who stand a call away
Reciprocals are a wordly scam
And he wishes he was unaware.

His face yet holds no stress, 
No sign of pain.
Not for they exist not, 
But for he chooses to conceal.
He chuckles and chortles, as if a lark.
But within he's dead forever,
His glee is gone forever.

A Farewell Speech

I leave this as the culminating word To be spoken when I rest at last By someone who knew me in and out Someone who knew all secrets for the...