Across Poems

The fancy carnival carousel caught my eye
Twelve wooden horses went prancing on by
I clambered on one, and enjoyed a horse ride
But when I had to dismount, oh how I cried!

When Mama and Papa tucked me into bed
Carousel horses galloped inside...Read More

Gentle rising sun

Radiate peace in Summer

Splashed across green leaves...Read More

An angel's campfire
just beyond the virgin horizon
where dreams are sown and born..
as sky stones skip across the night
in timeless godly light
where miracles from afar
seek out the wounded heart
to buoy them to calming cays
that lie between bloody storms
of hopelessness-of souls aflame
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24/7 round the clock coronavirus (COVID-19) coverage

Strong armed marshall law decrees
(at a buoy good gull... lance)
across airwaves blare
constant detrimental exhortation
buzzfeeding populace analogous
to pollination instinctively
wrought courtesy bumblebees

to help combat
mortal pandemic disease
explaining governmental freeze
industries shuttered just ask jeeves
who will corroborate
deadly symptoms characterized

by...Read More

To My Sis..

Every second every moment, I recall you..
Your absence is irreplaceable, just like you..
You may have entered into the another world..
Still our gladness is swayed by you..

You were light, you were a blessing,
You were divine, you were cherubic,
You were...Read More

As life is in chaos and the times are stressed here are four Sonnets of the Sea to allow your mind and soul to escape...May peace and blessings come to all in these the times we find ourselves

One With the...Read More

Look but don't see! a new World is being made
its fabric is interwoven with a strength of inconsistency
It teaches in pre-schools that
Run from 9 am until 6 with
The children of other lost children who are
Called parents. 'Parents’. It’s a useful
Word!!...Read More

LEAVES

My mind wanders, as I sit at my cluttered desk, trying desperately to contact our clients.  Working from home during the Covid-19 Lock down, is a challenge with no staff.
 I imagine myself sitting in a field of abundant...Read More

A dream lay on the beach
like a stone pounded smooth 
gently sweetened by the sea
unclaimed
beauty unrecognized
scores pass by
those fossilized souls
dead-slag eyed..
To often
a devil comes along
gleans it from a deserving palm,
skips it across the cold backbone of the sea
until it settles...Read More

Self quarantined misanthrope pitched into purgatory wham!

Ably cane resign eternal damnation (mine)
courtesy devil specially engraved telegram
prestidigitation found me vanishing shazam,
without a trace I disappeared in thin air voila
Earthly travails atop horns of dilemma ram
into me buttucks pitching yours truly ma'am

hoisted...Read More

There once was a woman named Lee.
Who wanted to swim across the sea.
She swam until dark.
Then in came the shark.
There was nothing left to see.


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My wife found a grocer that opens from 6 to 7am for seniors only before serving the general public.  And I kid you not. Yesterday, on an early morning mission for my wife to purchase mustard greens, I was...Read More

Jubilee

I live as a child of the season when the world outlines
A silhouette of itself,
When glittering stars rest on barren branches
  Uplifted and rejoicing
    In the playful sparkle
	Cast
Upon nights that do not welcome
	Dawn;
In the shadows of...Read More

A deep valley between of us
No possible way to her,
She said "It's all finished,"
"Humans rarely walk on air."
Down there among savage stones
All alone was a wooden boat,
I left nothing untried
Night was devouring the light,
Dusk till dawn I was weeping
But she...Read More

The pond is brackish
a smear of lichen,
a low shaded haze.

Water birds dabble in their sleep.
Soon the sun
will dash across a drop of dew
bursting dams of light.

Wings will shake off
the dwindling shadows
slap the pond and call
until the water awakes.


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The story of love

Tash Mahal built by a prince
for a wife, he loved despite having many spouses.
A beautiful palace admired for its architecture
and reduced to mere splendour.
On a narrow road going uphill, I came across
a clumsily built cement block
made by...Read More

Art History

I stand erect with outstretched hand Representing liberty, for many, a foreign land My fire dances an incessant jubilant glow
I represent hope for the oppressed to sow

 Pungent salts mixed with glassy sands
      ...Read More

Floating On A Breeze

Teasingly a breeze brushed 
across my cheek
Flowing through my hair as 
if wanting to speak
Then lifting me up with 
its gentle magic
Gently stroking my body 
so savory and sleek
As my body became 
weightless and weak
Snuggling my soul...Read More

We've been exposed to too much discrimination
Simply because we are Black
Our African heritage appears to be
Like a target on our backs
Some cops believe that over us
They had the power of death and life
But we as a people we put our...Read More

Here I stand outside this door heart beating out of my chest, knowing that once I cross this threshold there will be nothing of me left
I got myself into this predicament I wanted this so much, and I tell myself...Read More

 
fluffy clouds sail across the azure
and I drink from the deep blue where birds fly
I was thirsty, oh so thirsty for spring
listen, the birds have a new song  
so lovely are the daffodils, tulips and crocus
oh, sweet the...Read More

As I lay there broken scattered across the floor
You’ve taken all I have to give and then you ask for more
Towering over me, you force my mouth to speak
Hypercritically wanting strength, when you have made me weak
I can’t begin to...Read More

The distant sound of hoopbeats stirs the air
those clouds sweet dusty dreams of yesteryear
float lazily across his fluttering eyes
crease wrinkled face to smile and eyes to tear.

They rode, this ragged trio, on the winds
the age of youthful never ending friends
a-gallop...Read More

The Passing of Fear
A mark on the door…

It is so quiet here, 
I believe that I can hear a snake, 
meandering across the dirt road, 
along the backside of the west fence. 
Usually he takes his time, 
but tonight, 
he...Read More

Hot soup here
Keeping at arms length;
Face mask call-signs

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Antiseptic atmosphere
Pockets of isolation;
Together yet distanced

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Empty public places
Ghost town feeling;
Pandemic toll

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Lockdown hits hard
Widespread anxiety;
Fear chokes worry

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Global bad news
Broken economies;
A tragic retreat

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Just a small virus
Strangles our mortality;
Deadly lung infection

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Across the world
Colour blind viral works;
Shades...Read More