Gruelling Poems

Misanthropic Melodies

...Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a docto...

The woman with three names

...There is a quick-witted woman I know with three names; her silhouette is a mystery; she's had multiple fragile frames.

Many have tried and failed to tame her rather long mane, but honestly, they w...

Right back where I found you

...You wanted your world to change
You wanted a life with a family 
Somewhere you could feel safe
Feel the love you so dearly desired 

In your mind you felt that this family 
Could replace the on...

A Sweater For The Churchmouse

...Knitting a tiny woolly sweater, for a sweet-tempered mouse
He sleeps on a blue letter, that arrived from grandmother’s house
Using scraps of yarn, that came from a pair of socks
Was keeping it to ...

madness resolved

...
storm clouds relentlessly 
crashed on rock bottom
with the only crack dragging 
wreckage and carnage through
a trapdoor into oblivious fog
gruelling sediment confined
a rotten Self of incarce...

life is mystic

...Life-a word of four letters
a quest runs in four corners
found diverse in four seasons
yet unsolved since four Yugas

Not appears gruelling but
none can define it truly
no way but confronting ...

The Calmness of Silence

...A land mine silently lays dormant concealed on the ground
When suddenly, hysteria screams EMANATE from all around.
A boy innocently was playing is SWIRLING through the air
He had triggered that mi...

Mamma

...
Mamma, what a lovely angel you are
Before I came into this world you carried
Me for nine gruelling months,
Morning sickness and throw-ups
Is what I gave when you conceived me
And innume...

W T F W T

...

In the slate horizon static like a slab of rooted rock,
charcoal clouds clambered from its convolute edge
with the storm that rushed with the gruelling gale,
carrying the cascade of th...

Encaged and Enraged

...She lived in a castle, isolated,
Time flew slow, gruelling and full of hatred,
The crown lay broken on the floor,
Shattered, scattered, one piece no more.

Royal duties thrown away, Pirates life...

Our Peace

...I looked at the horrible faces,
agnostic,
I look at the beautiful faces,
pristine,
I looked for a summer in the midst of winter,
and for repose in a gruelling duel with death and oblivion.

I ...

Blame

...Blame
It is only myself that I can blame
For not feeling the birthright of freedom
No one saw the anxiety hidden
When I needed it the most where was love.

Did n...

Just Happy To Be Alive

...My approach to life has always been
One of lightheartedness and happy to be alive
However, I recall my early years, expecially my teenage years
When I was filled with self-doubt
Thought o...

Apology To the Missus At Nighttime

...Apology to the missus at nighttime...
first day of January
two thousand and twenty three.

While the wife then in the process
of leaving a telephone message
for our eldest daughter,
(on vacati...

The Golden Crusade

...Whence the first rays of sunlight fall,
And nary a bird awake,
The purple shades of sky,
Signal for the war-drums to be played.

Sleep blown away,
The gruelling struggle stirs,
And the blueing...

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