Long Caned Poems

Breaking down in the heart and mind.
With all regrets that are truly not kind.
Shocked at people are, so painful to see.
Abused with hated and ecstasy.
Violated and directed with torments
Lost of words or comments.
Hatred gushing out...

Read More

I once wrote a POTW, getting to know you, was the theme 
Simple little rhyme, about soupers commonalities it seems 
Now I’m discovering disparity, divisions, different schisms 
Joining the dots together, one picture emerges, extremism...

Read More

A game of musical chairs has just begun in earnest. A pot and kettle band arrives 
through the dining rooms’ French doors following the Valentine Queen. A putrid pink 
flamingo with a croquet ball stuck...

Read More

ROHRBACH CAFE

Intimacy.

A place
of shared warmth, an atmosphere of muted shadows and candlelight,
where
emotions, profoundly sincere,
softly glow,
flare,
then wane
until, fully consumed, they are dimmed
and gentled
by intrinsic breezes of serenity.

A cafe
of quiet murmers, hushed revelations
among tables close,
but afar,
where
evening lit...

Read More

Santa, I have an important request.
Please don't embarrass me with ho ho hos.
If you'd looked at my face you might have guessed.
I'm serious about fixing my nose.

I can sense you are stifling your laughter.
Your bowl...

Read More

Through the dewy panes
     As my eyes scan through my garden
      Everytime I am spellbound
        My childhood's hideout
 ...

Read More

Happy.  Genial.  Merry.  Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy.  Tiddly.  Brahms and Liszt

Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered
Bladdered, blathered, leathered, plastered, 
Sozzled, sloshed, scuttered

Hammered, battered, caned, mangled
Spannered, mullered....

Read More

The Ancient mutiny of the Twain

In the beginning were both made
To dwell in unison and not to trade
You abode with each other in Eden
And never was anyone a burden.

The Author made one with the soiling...

Read More

It will not be in vain!
All that I’ve passed through, the pain!
All the cold nights and hot candles that I’ve burnt,
Through the understanding and misunderstandings of all that I’ve learnt,
Even the canes that I’ve received,
And...

Read More

Like a spell with no remedy
The strong movement of the wind 
Accosted by volcanic ceaseless water 
Stuck and struck endlessly
It held grip to all that ever
Existed in New Orleans

It reminded me of the 
Beginning when...

Read More

Tears that are never acknowledged suddenly take precedence unexpectedly within nocturnal callings
hidden wounds long festering never acknowledged sliced openly are silently hemorrhaging fears  
one’s loved least claimed through schematic vows haunts the night’s mechanisms...

Read More

At school I must have been naive,
for I was told I must achieve.
Add up, subtract even divide,
equations, algebra must be tried,
Nouns, verbs I had to learn,
adjectives were my concern.
In French we should pronounce our ‘R’s’
By...

Read More

I  AND MAMA
I left my footprints in the mud
The mud that was ooh so red 
That to my feet it stuck and...
It got my mummy oooh so mad.
But smile she had to at the...

Read More

How long, would you hide
Aren't you tired of the roller coaster ride
Put aside your pride and return to ' YAH ' side
Don't be sadden, don't be afraid
Stop digging your brother's grave
Be strong, turn from wrong
Just...

Read More

Often must have U seen,
A child cry and wean.
In the world so mean,
To help none is keen.

For a tender soul, why must happiness fade?
why must he nest such a pain?
Oh! eyes soared and body caned,
Amidst...

Read More

Limerick crochetés: Once Mid-East refugee hi-jacked plane
Once Mid-East refugee hijacked plane 
At Heathrow Airport without much pain
Set course for Florida
Down Gulf Stream danced salsa
O’er Bermuda Triangle lost brain

Raised head in parallel universe
Where everybody spoke only...

Read More

They were vibrant women, 
whose voices vibrated in the vicinity. 
Their squabbles were X-rated. 
Profanity pirouetted nude in their expressions. 
They fought for the rights, 
though with obscene tongues. 
Their ways were bitter 
but beneficial...

Read More

The slogan was repeated, nth number of times,
But, have things changed.
Nothing new, cropped up; still men lose their lives,
Again it is the same.	
Brides are being burnt, people manipulate lies,
Corruption is still tamed.
A bomb explosion everywhere,...

Read More

Lazily, disdaining up above the sky to pursue
As the setting of the sun is to indolent to hold
Such a tournament is lengthened and embedded in gold
While the sun passively darkens for a night barbecue

I sit...

Read More

The wise Twins

Behind you is a pair of twins, wise and humble
They conflict and quarrel with each other-no complain
With big stomach, big head you sit on them- no complain
Without wages they toil moon in moon...

Read More

She sat on the side of her bed,
A bloodied whip,the scars on her neck,
Still a perfect crimson,still a beautiful red,
Droplets of water moiston her lips,
A serene fury ignited by a salty taste.

She who curses humanity...

Read More

When thou carries the world, the totality of all sorrows
And when you bemoan thy fall that makes you hide thy face within the native hurt- a shadow of death .

Taste ! Feel and See! Shout...

Read More

2.

No Golden Honour 

Golden in the class
Honour certificate
No problem
But mademoiselle 
Was to cry
Something changed, 
Who knows when?
Something changed,
Even I don’t know why.

3.

Tiny, Capricious, Impish

Tiny, capricious, impish, 
Perfect imitations of head prefects,
Nearly got caned for it,
Get...

Read More

- Colour Blind -         
Aha! The lad has achromatopsua. 
It's incurable and hereditary.          
Then my mother fainted. ...

Read More

I was telling a tale 
Incredulous to you, not me
Of school in the old days 
And how it used to be

Children were tolerated 
Generally seen and not heard
Their place in society!
Beaten into third

How times have...

Read More