Long Sickbed Poems

Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
and not the broken spool in a...

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Grueling Smiles
is a book about a couple
the woman had married a man who had been married Twelve times.
She had been married twice and would do anything to keep her current husband loyal to her and...

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Writing to you about the evil I enjoy.
More like knowing the hate I have for fever.
On this sick bed I curse fever.
For employing my body against me.
I sneezed a hundred last night.
Accompanied by a boiling...

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This rainy  morning you gave me a feel of your flower
Thank you I want to give you a poem in return
Soaked in  pleasant smell of the showers
I like your eyes going through these...

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SAVIOR

Who is he who has regard for the weak,
restores the length and breadth of a sick man?
In bleak times, whose mercy does the flesh seek,
when troubled times divert you from canned plan?

Who is one who...

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lonely as a dried up hero
legend only to the past,
as a world moved on
from foolish children’s faith,
energy of generations
arrives at perigee,
blown out like flatulence
snuck into polite conversations,
snide groupthink on
a notion of good sport
and fair play,
while...

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For the chrysanthemums in the back yard
Are overly dignified,
For the cosmos in the front yard
Are simply too tall…

When I alone looking at the troubled world outside
through the window, the Cyrano’s bluffing fades out
but, instead, the...

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The new groom
  Loved his bride so
One day she took ill
  He took her in tow

I'll clean and I'll cook
  Set you up with a book
In a day, maybe two
  You'll...

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see this happen
one night, a night
as white as a phosphorus star
left her (and all of us)
blind beggars with holes
in our clinking tin cups

an awful bluebeard
a redblooded villain
was to charcoal blame
said this cautionary tale
that stirred in...

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Look out you might see them
scuttling down your street
patting the neighbour’s dog 
nodding to people they meet

They lurk on hospital corridors
wearing their black shiny shoes
then scour obituary columns
for all their latest news

They follow people on...

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