Long Inquires Poems

Again the alarm is set.

Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.   

The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.

 She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...

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Rudolf is mysteriously born in a manger
with a flaming red nose,
and eyes,
and ears,
and hair,
everywhere.

Gingers are rare
among his DeerTribe
as is his empathic capacity to know he is going where,
how to get there,
and about how long it...

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Note: If you haven’t please check out part one before reading this. 
It will make more sense that way Thanks.


Time moves slower than a rusted windmill on a still day 
as I am unable to...

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Time moves slower than a rusted windmill on a still day 
as I am unable to avert my stare, frozen in this spot,  
captivated by an intoxicating charm smoother than Tennessee whiskey 
that hasn’t...

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The reality be told, it was not long past,
Flabbergast by an unfold from my mind’s vague vast,
In reflections of the accounts of my youth,
Echoes formed, all claiming to be truth.
Must be fabricated, they’re so over...

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The reality be told, it was not long past
Flabbergast by an unfold from my minds vague vast
In the reflections of the accounts of my youth 
As several echo’s formed claiming to be truth
Must be fabricated....

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I can feel it, something inside of me pushing me to reach higher, what refines an insider? what 
defines an outsider? Sometimes i think better when i'm higher; but it's not the drug i desire,...

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Here I sit,  on an examination table
bored, swinging my feet to and fro
waiting for a doctor who will be able
to diagnose the reason why I feel low

I study the body posters while I wait
in...

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A little boy sits alone, with a world before him to explore
soon this boy grows up, not that same little boy as before
when reaching adulthood, feeding his curiosity becomes his goal
but he has not yet...

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Her eyes fall upon a vision of heaven as she enters the room, walking a waltz
The empty shell calls out to him, breaking the trance of this angelic creature
Looking up, his attention focuses on the...

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(I wrote this poem when I turned 60…already somewhat old and gray
and now that I’m am 70…it’s still appropriate today.

I’ve lived through another decade with family and friends still sharing hopes and dreams and fears…and...

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Our suffering merits the celestial, gentle waves bearing the message of love.
I venture not to fall sleep, and keep absorbing nature's enchanting spell, enough mourning in anguish, and revive!
"The old world keep unfolding in your...

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ARE YOU REALLY A HUMAN?? 
? SHREYASH MUKHERJEE 
 
I don’t know why they didn’t allow me to breathe (George Floyd), 
I don’t know why they harassed me & no one was to defeat (Joseph),
I...

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See the procession. Yonder they come'
None plays a flute- no one beats a drum.
Just a small rag-tagged group of a dozen or so.
Who, for three years, have preached wherever they go.

They know this ministry will...

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Through your brokenness tried to break down my openness, bleeding human blood  for that you told me I am wrong that I am not strong, that I am weird ,qweer and improperly strung, dying...emptying...

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What do I do, my soul inquires, abandoned in the shadow of the moment,
When the call to move forward is incessantly declared wrong.
My options are as hazy as dreams shattered at the dawn of day,
My...

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7 men upped and left and then where never seen again
Nobody in the factory had a clue as to where and when

Jack's, cup of tea was still warm, stood on the table top
Nothing unusual here,...

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This is for all you trampled and forgotten
freezing in a hell not of your making
inching your way up the ethereal gangway
jockeying for rank and recognition
among the heavens the aristocracy
the drooling two headed priesthood 
cheap seat...

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LOVE-LUST-LOST


I REALLY LOVE TO SAY TO 
YOU.....
I REALLY WISH TO SAY IN
MANY 
WORDS TO YOU.....
I REALLY IN MA 
SINCERITY 
WANT TO FACE YOU......
BUT WHO CARES WHAT I 
SAY TO 
WHAT I DO? 
WHO CARES WHAT...

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For the joy, for the love, for the hope
Silencing every doubt, reassuring
Promising my heart there will be light
Reflecting all the wonders I long for
The yearnings that remind me 
His love is all that brings true...

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"Porn without sound
Is not nearly as good," 
The girl with the scorpion tattoo 
Turns and says to me.
"Duh," I comment.
"It's as if a part of our 
Brain 
And sex drive 
Are turned off," she tells...

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Judgment

When I shall be the old man here,
Forgot by time, uncountable by year,
When I shall wish to pass the living brink,
At You I shall devote my thought and think.

Uselessness I`ll see in all that I...

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Long we may ponder the ages past
  Those things we held inside,
But nobody hears a sound of suspicion  
Or the innocents that slipped away;         ...

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Oh! sweet verses of love, how gaily you recite tonight
Ballad of a pretty woman, lauding her knight tonight.

Rewarding entreaty, granting wish of love’s fantasy,
Tolling bells of glee, angels of bliss will alight tonight.

Thinking of romance...

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Green Eyed Monster - A Love Story

So, I headed home to me flat from a hard day’s night
Working in the coal mines for a quid or two
“Just outside Londondary”, me says, when some busy body...

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