Chiselling Poems - Poems about Chiselling

Winter Whispers, Stupid Songs

...The morning slaps me awake 
with a frozen windscreen,
keys in hand, scraping frost like
I’m chiselling through someone else’s mistakes.
My breath hangs in the air,
a ghost of myself
mocking the...

Woodpecker Blues-senryu series

...beak’s pecking away
chiselling wood from my side
hole reveals insides

is it work or play
pecker’s constant yammering
or to stir me up

plug up scab or slug
the critter who’s fleshing out
a...

Journal

...Yes, that is the role of the Teacher, as Shams was to
me – showing one ‘who they are’, so they can stop
bleating, crying at night, and never again be afraid.
Rumi

Oh beloved,
...

Soothing Tomorrows

...Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, sile...

Crafting and Chiselling Marriage

...I
I could copy, imitate and duplicate
The words of heart-and-wordsmiths
O muse, help me rather emulate
The genesis of natal pedigree, truths
And touches of agape-Love

II
To speak of aging, a...

I Wish I Loved Maths

...To bed just after one
 Awake by half-past three
The words in my head
Swirl around and torture me

All I did was have an idea
A simple story in my head
Now condemned to hard labour
Chiselling ...

Life Plays With Death

...I’ve been needing your lies 

I’ve been craving your poison 

I’ve been missing your demons 

I’ve been loving your hater 

While I was playing with death 

While it was ing me upside down ...

Priscilla of Titillating Courage

...Priscilla of Titillating Courage 

With smidgens of cereal we may choose to grind traces from

Grains of life truth sadness vagaries and the circle of being

Separate the wheat from the chaff o...

My Thoughts

...holy wars
not right… way back when
not right now
~
why fear religion
why believe in fear of god
abused nature… fear
~
sieve good from bad
survival of the fittest
evolutions real
~
...

Children of Xenophobia

...Children of Xenophobia

Children eating bullets and firecrackers 
Beggars of smile and laughter 
Silent corpses sleeping away fertile dreams 
Povo* chanting new nude wretched slogans 
Overstaye...

Children's Fable

...Are you sitting comfortably, children?
Because it's a long tale.....
Then I shall begin.

Arthur was a Mason, which in case you hadn't known
is a man who sands and chisels, making shapes from ou...

Reflection

...Your warped song and dance play to my soul
twisting and turning me inside out
melting and moulding my depths
creating, shaping, chiselling away to new form
until no longer do I recognise
the one...

Free Bird

...I had a waking moment but it was soon
to be forgotten.

Rising from a peaceful sleep, now I'm 
intrigued.

Feels like myself and my mind have made
a deal, for now this revelation has to
remai...

To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part Two

...Part Two

To have written is to leave but a mark
  nothing stands for the proud rhyming syllables
    more than his acquired business acumen
a Vaishya karmic hope

Now we stand aghast before this edi...

The Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram

...The mirtangist may never willingly hear
may not want to hear
the multaiyam announcing his cue
nor the melodist aware of the flautist's right
to the change in the raga
the plucking of the yal strings
...

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