Long Levelling Poems

Huge fluffy clouds began to form over 
Sanibel Island as the salted gulf splashed 
against the rocks around the lighthouse 
coastal waters rose up as a calming coolness 
carried this gentle warm breeze over to...

Read More

Whats in the news today
and how much snow is on the ground
they say in the paper there is 2 600 homeless people
in my home city
but word of mouth and the people who work...

Read More

The road to my backyard is long and straight
Evergreen trees abound and provide welcome shade
Home to myriad birds, butterflies and the bees
Last summer their branches were sawn off, without notice
The orgy with power-saws lasted barely...

Read More

Life matters!
There are so many strange salutations in Bangla, did you ever notice, there?
Thou, Thee and they, there! So many strangers are in affluence in an estranged mannerism, in near and far!
Why must this be...

Read More

You gaudy stars do not get giddy when I grieve
Nor wrest through clouds to melt this darkness
That so befits what logics to your destiny weave
For all dreams, and all theories prove finiteness
Where death draws the...

Read More

The golden silence melts away, and joy un-named
From the phantom pipes exults me
For no silence can so rhapsodized and doubts tamed
That man deserves better glory.
And what if sin could, levelling us, permit this to remain
Tell...

Read More

I felt nothing 
Meeting his body 
Shrunk, motionless 
A log, plastinated by white enshrouding cloak  
I felt nothing
Trailing this log to its final abode
Six feet under 
I felt nothing 
As the planks decked over...

Read More

Bittersweet 
	
Jose cuts the canes one at a time cursed by poverty's grind

What else does he want since he works on sweetness all
       around him and toils in fragrant...

Read More

Pushed up from stomach's abyssmal pit
Choked off cries, constraint deformed
Packed with panic's punches
Right here where words are formed
Throat cords tightly gripped
Resistance rules my holding back
While mouth stammers mind blown shock
Fear sped thoughts fly blindly
Wild-eyed in...

Read More

The working navvy did dig deep 
He followed Brindly’s new laid plan
A transport system to complete
A salvation for the labouring man 

As the furrow cut with sweat and maul
With breaking backs and torn sinew
Each man...

Read More

We walk on these streets.
We see the same skies
We see the people smiling who we love but do we hear the screams of their cries

Red bricks glow in the evening sunlight but turn black under...

Read More

I found my reset button
If I only knew I had it at all
One moment, one instant
My identity I am all for

Resetting back to comforts levelling
The so hard to deal with things becomes easy
That once adrenaline...

Read More

Red beams and blue lights

Swinging in plain sight

Lips dripping lime sipping

Tastes of warmth on a cold night

Humidity is a breeze

Freezing with a knot

The air is hot

Thoughts are dark

Heavenly scents 

Ripped apart

White noise

Smoothly scratched

Bit by bit

Scars...

Read More

My Mate’s Car 
It’s a limousine Cadillac with all the luxuries you would want. Check it out as he drives past. He has electric windows for hot July days. A digital stereo to blare his...

Read More