Long Thoroughfares Poems

“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”

Spurred by mother dearest 
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.

Back in the day 
quaint...

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(With Wormwood Dreams)
The fire and ice, heaven and hell equinox calibration of scales, scorched Earth
beneath a sky of epic fail of primary colors in triple beam, sale, cine-scene-
totem of hierarchial Archangels of Destruction of Kingdom...

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This dread disease that has afflicted my home, 
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof 
Into something wholly despicable and disgustingly homogeneous,
Yclept "cosmopolitanism," and "worldliness," and "globalization,"...

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In Dickensian time 
Upon sunset hour
Overshadowing Thames
Is London Tower
Blackened cobble streets
Shimmer in the rain
Big Ben at Westminster
Chimes an eight bells refrain

At Euston Station
A passenger alights
On Platform 3
And enters the caff
for a nice cup of tea

At...

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Information superhighway bumper to binary bumper. 
Stark contrast versus deserted macadam thoroughfares.
Magnification rendered visualization coronavirus
alias covid 19 courtesy electron microscopy plus

sundry computer technology yours truly (popeye
Olive Garden variety generic layman) breathtakingly
held spellbound, née utterly transfixed...

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The lights of the city reflecting from the aqueous pitch, pavements in a kaleidoscope of colours create a melancholy ambience for the few who venture within. The city is transformed as the animated bustle of...

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Way up there in the Colorado mountains at around 9000 feet,
There once was a thrivin' village that served as the county seat.
It was a boom and bust town that now lies in desolate shambles,
Its one-time...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Three

Is it true the sun dared cock its eye over the hillocks
Nor did it with affront sink into raging Atlantic docks
Such the glare of armoured headlights singeing the...

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Crossroads                                  ...

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Freedom to display one’s unwashed teeth
Exhibiting the whole thirty-two,
Even as others with anger seethe 
And the keenest insults on one rain, too.
	
Voice to broadcast one’s HIV-Status
Before it’s public discovery
Or befriending some consoling circus
And waiting for...

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We got really dumped on yesterday

Was hoping we would miss out on this one

But must remember, this is Canada!

The land of ice and snow and parkas and snow shoes

At least that's the general perception

We have...

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The event of tragedy blossomed,
That carnivorous wave of terror,
Caromed through the capital,
Down subways and thoroughfares,
Horrified the gaping senses
And surged through the echoing chasms,
The divides of the unholy,
And the gulfs of the unjust.

In a bleak ricocheted...

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Limerick : Once a President of Bolivia

Once a President of Bolivia
Frothed oblanceolate green saliva
Must dream was Ashoka*
On Andes throne Inca
That’s how COCA-cola drug India.

*ASHOKA, b. circa 304 BCE (reigned: 273-232 BCE): King of Magadha,
was the...

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Robin of the Hoodie

Alas, resides in Sherwood Forest,
one Robin of the Hoodie.  He’s lost
amid the greenery, weeping
as sunset nears for underneath
the Hood he hides his deep
and lonely fears.  The Hoodie
no protection here amid...

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Fireflies dance through black space
twinkling in the shadows of moonlight
reminding hearts why the star's glow
flickering kindly with a silent hope
wistfully tracing the silhouettes along
breathing in whispers of heavy darkness
milking the night for its silence pouring
across...

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The scientist spills her confection,
It was all yellow; her provisions,
Don't panic, whispered his green eyes,
Everything's not lost under these broken lights;
And broken clocks that hang low in space.
Come, pampered princess sit in my place,
Tonight I...

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Is that all there is to this rush of vibrating energy cascading through our synaptic
thoroughfares? Light spectrum wide and narrow traversing your point of view and you
think and therefore I am what your senses interpret...

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Somewhere in these busy woods
a woodpecker tattoos tree bark,
I hear its piercing peck and drumming.

Above me songbirds and squirrels
hustle to and fro
through their arboreal thoroughfares.

Then I, in my absent mindedness,
meandered into this open glade;
here silence...

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Nature's love ways are sometimes cruel but fair;
Balanced charters set with no inspection; 
A lover's passage laid for those who dare;
Full hearts so often blind to reflection. 

Seek not a path set straight as science...

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Weep The Willow She

Bark and Willow 
Weeps she to raining
Poses curtained shadows
Behind the water fall of slim leaven branchings
Underneath recumbent grass
Damp on cold spatters
Spreading stains water logged

An unremitting drop of rain
Shaken to drips from the...

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A poet soul is ubiquitous 
Wandering far and wide unceasingly
In search of covert destination which is serendipitous 
Numerous thoroughfares travelled tirelessly 
Yet the poet's soul do not outcry
Untold remembrances collects from antique times 
Poet's soul...

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I know the aching heart 
Knows that longings
Can never be fully apart
And satisfied anymore
Through bodily meetings.

I know I can never share 
Stories of childhood tears 
And fears bravely conquered there
Through silence and struggles
To step into...

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In the blank canvas of a room
Aswirl and pearled with long-clutched dreams,
Dreaming of the dream, dreams of the Great Path
Where lime juice tears from our eyes and the sun
Soft hug of skin reminds us of...

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This is a tropical paradise where many tourists meet.
However, you will still see homeless people living in the street.
These folks struggle to receive a handout.
Each day is living with some considerable doubt.
Survival means putting up...

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