Chafes Poems

Love Lauded in Song

...Clearly a misguided romance can cause great grieve,
but chances that’s forgone chafes, cheating 
us out of the possibility of our chivalry
in an hour of need.

Youthful, yet ambitious, yearning ...

Crows

...Sri Lal
Crows

i.
I come from nowhere,
and I have nowhere to go,
I tell the crow perched 
on a low neem branch 
beyond the Periyar River.

He agrees.

He and I are free.
We speak the sam...

The Aftermath

...
Meaning is over there,
beyond the burnt paddocks
and blackened hills, 
the crumpled, flattened ruins
of houses. It is further out
than that nothingness glazed
upon the distances 
of a vacant...

Temper Whispers-SHM

...
Written: November 17, 2023 For Charles Messina Contest
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In peace of mind and unwavering pride
Draw out your inner disgruntled ...

Barefoot Walk

...Prominence walking barefoot
Check out the chaos below
The soundless roar of foam and smoke
The banshee howls at the rising tide
Dragged and swept away
The wind chafes.
Tortured thro...

Whatever Whatever Whatever

...Whatever turns your crank
Whatever tickles your pickle
Whatever dunks your donut
Whatever waxes your dolphin
Whatever buffs your buddha
Whatever pops your cork
Whatever pets your monkey...

Malignant Clouds

...Clouds loom drifting, passing by,
The west wind gently tempts them on
Though no one knows what cause them cry
And no one hears their pleading voice
As all their acid tears well dry.


Snowy wh...

Letter To Kenyan Voter

...I quit
I throw my hands down
and sit, sometimes

they called for reconciliation without
 justice
They called for justice without 
truth
Now they ask for prayer without
confession, umpteenth,...

A Plants Life

...It is a plant’s life.

Up in the continuous night, I saw a streak of light
a dying comet’s last hurrah.
Bedroom in darkness couldn’t sleep too much death
for one night.
Got up and read a book a...

On Too Many Wants

...I don’t want to end.
The arrogance of thinking 
this skin, heart, brain, 
these lungs, eyes, hands and feet
Won’t become binding
Feckless thought
An inescapable limit that presses and chafes
Y...

Windward

...The wind
is an agent of change
so I face it
head on
and welcome its
cold embrace
its cleansing properties
its whirling breath
that chafes my skin
and chills my core
and I ask it to ...

Adventitious Existence Birthed Introverted Spiritual Outlier Ie Me

...Adventitious existence birthed introverted spiritual outlier i.e. me

Speculative fictitious flirtation imagined
courtesy grown old male offspring (me)
begat when mine late mother and father met
...

Each New Person Is a Gift

...Each new person is a gift
Some wrapped in shiny foil paper
Tidied up with ribbons and bows

Others trussed inside brown paper 
Restricted by an extra tight string
That chafes them, tearing into...

Naked Freedom

...This shoe that doesn't fit sorely rubs the tender sole, 
to wound and then to harden.
The roughness of sin’s garment chafes the skin
to make that hole, where naked freedom
first was known, in per...

Undercover Operation

...He chafes the prayer beads against his wrist
	Has died lesser deaths of exasperated rage
		It’s not forgiveness he seeks but purifying anger

To feel the rawness of emotion he focusses
	On undef...

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