Long Padlocked Poems

I miss the nuances of daily life
while weeks are frozen in this quarantine.
I miss the lost normalcy of my days
in all aspects, obvious and unseen.
I miss turning my head to read the spines
of the novels...

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I
A queue to a doorway
No-one knows what´s
On sale there
It could be washing powder
Almonds or diamonds
You think this was some
Yesterday
Look out your
Ghost smeared
Window
This is now

II
Throw stones at the
Motorcade 
The pin pricked
Giant will barely
Pause
At banners & petitions
Faded...

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Born without a Phallus

Arigbe,
the first and last child of his parents
named after the famous Arigbe leaf
a wild magical spice
only used by women who need to spice up their love lives
his father’s love for his mother...

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the great bard and Elizabethan play wright
begetting complete dramaturgy
     explaining fate hollowly airtight
succor starved, riddled smitten tattered

     sir real body politik blight
under whelming enthusiasm
   ...

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The old rusty gate hasn’t opened of late
Nor has it for so many years
The padlocks are seized and it’s overgrown state
Compounds our irrational fears

For when there’s a moon that is three quarters full
And the breeze...

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Deep within me are rusty, crumbling memories and grief,
like a pile of rubbish the dregs of yesterday decay;
all the bits and pieces of my life deep and inner lay,
but under withering sadness I can find...

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I have been on a long journey- 
the road I have traveled has been a rocky one
I have wept my tears 
my sky is often black as ink
in a life of dangerous curves and hanging...

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 Cold the winter night as snow fell,
it drifted-  collected on streets;
where a meandering lost girl struggled to walk,
weary and tired; 
she ran away when it was warm,
when she had some money.

Now-  had...

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Weekly this sorry procession
rolls out a parade of wannabe
kings and queens,
heirs unapparent to the realms of nothingness.

Girls with elaborate hairdos,
boys drenched in cheap cologne;
drawn to the main drag pubs,
solitary ventilators of the monochrome kingdom.

Factory gates...

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In the most interior halls
Of grandfather, opa, Herr Uberlebende
His mind
Behind the film that shrouds his eyes
(Fading, opaque, impenetrable)
There is a gap between the rooms that line the dusted floors--
A hole between the satanic years
When worlds...

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First it was pubs that weren’t open,
And then shops that were not essential,
And then even schools weren’t admitting,
But to me that’s inconsequential.
Cos I haven’t got school age children,
But worried hotels were closed too
If I needed...

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I have been on a long journey 
The road I have travelled has been a rocky one
I have wept my tears
My sky black as ink
In a life of dangerous curves and hanging cliffs
And deep sadness...

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The General is a bit of an authoritarian.
He says, Breathe! And you say, how much?
Twilight is much more chill; she just says, “See you ‘round!”
But then you’re bouncing along to a happy tune,
and that’s not...

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Fix up this love or I'm tearing it down
You took a decent house and turned it inside-out
You sealed up the windows and padlocked the doors
Why wasn't I on board with these plans of yours

And now...

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Sound of sea is locked within seashell beached
Just lift a shell to your ear to hear sea sigh.

Morn is locked within dawns red sky horizon
Like flower bud bursts into daybreak.

Sap and sinew of living tree...

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My lavish world of happiness
With digging of hole to fall down myself 
To flow into the drainage  
Far afar to go and go and go 
Damaged all and ruined 
But know why? No idea...

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Kisses are windows
Windows that I can’t seem to climb out of
Or want to
Kisses are doorways
With big padlocks
There’s a key in my pocket
Open out your palm
Kisses are pathways
Those cute garden paths
Bordered with lilies
Kisses are cups of...

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As the morning sun illuminates my face, 
And the birds sing joyous songs of the new day, 
I turn over and slowly open my eyes, 
Staring at the empty spot where you used to lay....

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Yesterday's passing drifted shadow
Added to our eclectic collected hoards
A bittersweet cocktail of events and instances
Confined captured and tangled cobwebbed corridors
Of to the limbic labyrinth 
The older the memory
The darker the recesses
The further back filed and...

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Rust on padlocked factory gates
from tears of broken men.
Time has stopped on the golden watch,
freeze framed memories of a better past.

Scattered faces breed sour looks
for brothers of nepotism
with handshakes that nearly broke arms.

Crouched in side...

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I have married two men in my life
And I loved neither

I have loved two men in my life
And I couldn't marry either

The relationship with each
Fleeting though it may have been

Was magical and whimsical
Like sparks floating...

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Most leaders are barking dog
Only few are good, seem loyal

Viewing sights are weak almost
Position made alike, no fault.

Eyes see wealth and wealthy
Poor are likely barb to them 

Bid of dealing conducts with
Same level people or...

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alluring and daunting, I'm left all alone,
intriguing and frightening how my anxieties grown,
cutting all ties to relationships sewn,
my mind in a spiral and I'm falling on my own
 
and this is by choice, I choose...

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With high-altitude ambitions,
they climb the hilltop to catch the signal.
They are lush and lovely 
as the landscape behind them.
These children of the forest live 
in the network-less valley of life.

Masked,
they lose their natural raptures,
cannot regain...

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This recent  times ,I thought it had ended ,
But it persistently dwells  in my heart ,
I enrolled to be one ,as I blended 
With others , and I begged to be a part,

I...

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