Eking Poems

The Eke Eek

...Struggling for so long
Eking it look so easy
They don’t believe me...

He Stands In the Street

...With traffic flowing he stands in the street
Arms stretched, hands up, commanding a halt
Obedience and fate will now compete

His adrenaline pumping like a drumbeat
His eyes shut tightly sting w...

Repayment

...The devil wants a payment, and the angels need a check.
And the world keeps saying their ain’t no cash to get

So, you reach for the savings that your people won't release
Then you look to the he...

Great Escape

...Gravitational pull like quicksand, her ebony eyes
Ripping into his outer space. He tugs at his collar,
Eking out the empty space of honeysuckle perfume.
Avant-garde arrest of his indeterminate hea...

Seeing Off My Guests

...Fast wind sees off a dying year
The sense of fall strong
Hurriedly I see off my guests to my hometown
The Double Ninth Day is near
I wish my friends to cheer

Eking out a living as alien here
...

Guilded Cage

...My big friend has locked me
Inside of his house
I do not believe 
I will ever get out

I don’t really mind
It’s comfy and warm
And except for that dog
I never face harm

In the earliest day...

Himalayas

...Himalayas

Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan m...

Burn After Reading

...

Proceed no further, please ... 
this Rorschach ink will give you nightmares
Horrifying images everyday in the world you dare don’t see,
terrible things that will make you so soul scared...

Odyssey From Africa 13d 14a

...Chapter 13d

Yet at length he reawakened 
As if in another lifetime 
Han discerned a sound and movement 
Stiffly rose to look about him

And he saw his precious Matto
Crouching near him in th...

Oppression

...Mayhem, pandemonium 
total chaos, bedlam, devastation.
A soft, soothing breeze turns
into a whirlwind, a hurricane causing
havoc, death, destruction and untold misery…
Is it the fault of the...

November's Saint

...November’s Saint

I watch Truman’s Capote's tale
in November
the south, trapped in frost
bare, naked to the eye

a penury of snow
like poor folk clothes
hardly enough to cover
the jagged ed...

The Mosaic

...The mosaic

A myriad of faces,
 Most, long and forlorn,
 Each in a constant flux,
 Eking out a living
 Worry, deeply etched,
 Like parallel ridges,
 On an otherwise barren waste

The many f...

Amidst the Mist

...Amidst the mist, perchance!
The besieged me, accentuates..
gamboling at that ephemeral glance,
The demure Soul for a moment, eluates. 


Defying every dulcet wrath,
with my erstwhile prudent.....

Political Choices of Vibrant Cultures

...History publishes eco-political winners
and probably not mystery marginalized also-rans.

NeoCortex dominant pursuits 
of growing cognitive information,
knowledge and facts,
comprehension of Ea...

Rootlessness

...From Mastadonian timelessness
Thru Neolithic mankindliness 
Past icy agey instances
Cave-ember dream sequences
Animal carcass sustenances
Tribal ritual religiousness 
Guttural language utteranc...

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