Best Sumptuousness Poems

I wanted to be an engineer
and drive a train insane
always with my chug-chug-chugging
and that four-note whistle
I carried in my dungarees
Whoooo - whhoooowhoooooooo 

I wanted to be a balloonist 'n'
look down on the Earth sun-kissed
and wear a fine coat and 
dark-brown top hat like
the wizard waving...

Continue reading...

Heads veiled in immaculate white,
Like cloistered nuns tanning in sun light;
As the farmer starts plowing, 
Flock around, twenty of you kowtowing;
Searching with your sharp eyes,
Finding and pecking little warms and flies...
Struggle to exist in environs hard,
That does not, often, your rights easily award...

Around ponds and...

Continue reading...

Darkness slowly vanquishes day
Once a noon with rays of brilliance 
now turns into a Stygian night

On my face are the wrinkles of time
On my flesh are tattoos of hardship
Eyes with the blurriness of age

Its time, its time to go home
The sweet prepared paradise
Made by the...

Continue reading...

Arid, bony-shanked carapace.
Shiny, weathered patina
tells of desolation,
Belies any promise of richness;
Yet when inverted,
Becoming regal.
A tatty, crown implies 
The ancient purport.


Tough, yet easily-torn in avarice.
Revealing, inner passion
Shrieks fecundity and blood, 
Gleams with shiny liveliness;
Yet when sundered,
Serried jewels.
A secret, inner-order shows
The abundant warrant.


Red, a study of translucence.
Deep-hued,...

Continue reading...