Push, pull, persevere tear and tire on purpose Pills, powders, supplements to irrigate its sinewy curves Once a symbol of labour now...

From skies unframed to a knothole to peep From doors opening horizons to portraits of stunted dreams From tall elms, cedars timeless, to...

Queasy stomach, heavy heart muddled mind, spleen contrite Gut feeling gone haywire liver filled with remorse Penitent eyes, weepy nose...

They stand silent, all of them. Sky, sun, moon, stars beyond count remain just as shining/ bright. Rivers flow unbothered, seas ebb and...

A beautiful day breaking out (or at least that's what I'm made to think) Sunrays just the right amount of slant Clouds shading only the...

No nook of galaxy, no day of the week, not even a flower named after it No fleet of planets orbiting it, not even making the pass-marks...

Colours, chaos, aromas of hubbub, and melee of bargain A shrewd one at times on either side of the green negotiating a bunch of coriander...

Waylaid memory of a longing, unfelt A serpent moulting out of hibernation, unspent A bold sprout nudging through tree-trunk, long felled...

Independence The removalist truck was almost full. Beds were put in, tables turned. Belongings squeezed in, longings veiled. It was the...

Wary I get most of those that go/ are (unforced and) forced And when the poet gets/ becomes/ has become bigger than the poem A portrait...

Wake up to it, walk up to it Sleep on it, toss away restless for  it Drive to it, arrive for it Come home to and from it Work for it,...

From spaces between eyelashes it escapes diving off my nasal bridge stealthily it slips into the wilderness beyond myself Caressing the...

Choose a right time a ladder steady angle adjusted, steps ready climb up slowly one rung at a time twist that way or this holding it just...

Day is empty rid of schedule rid of aim rid of zest Sunlight and rain unable to settle claim on the moments chasing minutes in vain Time...

The nameless, the nondescript, the no be, the commons the inconsequential that continue to people the planet through millennia rife with...

Great from the start great to end with Great was his every move planned or otherwise For the precise timing of his birth the stars had...

Days cast into months, months moulting into years Years addling more to the already plentiful, scars and wrinkles As the ageless stars,...

In the endless emptiness knowing no bounds or beginning Searching for the signs amid constellations and comets In the twinkling of stars...

What would it take? When would it be then? The answers to questions or the questions begetting more of themselves How does the sea know...

A void peering through zilch pellucid firmament ceaseless Forgetting their earthbound presence ambitious boughs pierce the welkin...