Putting the pen to the paper tottering around an angulated circle I try each day harder to forgive myself for yet again forgiving her Not...

Important in life Important in death Even the ghosts of many long dead, disintegrating under feet claim ranks and hierarchy Clothes,...

He'll ask He'll bicker Continuous, diligent unsparing of wink or breath Catching me unawares in shower, in a movie, while enjoying...

A sailor with a broken oar or a dinosaur long extinct Bobbing with joy is the yellow duck adept at swimming Float I past the Milky-way...

Window to the mind the eyes revealing More than the gleaming incisors trying to deceive Pain wearing a salve, wounds under festering Not...

Resilience In the parks- lying under the waiting benches. On the buses - left behind unsuspecting. In a scrubby scooter- parked in the...

Out at elbows, donning the countenance most solemn, cross eyed. He keeps going, unrealised- what he seeks cannot be found or even...

Pretty as pictures- staring in distance Four sisters posing with all the teethy smiles standing behind their parents grinning A reminder...

On my way home from the airport after a long week at work A man in his late sixties with a name distinctly Arabic pulled up in the...

Tucked not amid the groves of tall pine that give the sun a hard time reaching the ground Buried in the deep pining that drains each day...

The hour when the stars come out on the pellucid firmament without a word spoken When the ideas tumult on the perception and the burden...

Defying all defining refusing to be framed. Pale, vivid, fickle, strong-willed. Poised, hesitant, certain, confused. Trying to figure the...

To avoid the void that you can't escape All the futile attempts yielding naught more than a reason lame to squander away life unlived The...

And finally it happened/ did just as I'd feared perhaps a little too early a tad too severe but sure untimely by any occasion or stretch...

One after another where does it end where does it begin A peel left to appeal to the core its undying identity One after another layers...

Moulded into the mercies of a routine He wakes up well before sunrise Making his way with caution and care not stepping on the flotsam of...

First the address then the contents then the sender's details Licking it closed a tad out of fashion these days Whatever happened to...

Third day of the spring but it hardly feels like it May be someone forgot to tell the clime To remind the winter - It is time. Time to...

Scruples over trifles From deadlines lively to crises impending Every trifle, each triviality trying to eclipse the day's sunshine Puppet...

With that one poem out of me Out on the pages to be written, read, crumpled, thrown, torn to pieces One a day One at a time Taking me...