Sestets Poems

O let my Old Age be Mellow

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Childhood being a period of innocence by and large is quite blissful. The old age also can be quite so if it is truly treated as a second childhood. Life and death are equa...

Who sticks closer than blood is friend

...A friend that fishes for his selfish good, 
He who flatters and placates but to please, 
His sweet words venom under a veiled hood, 
He, whose hiss disguises as pleasant breeze. 
One not found wh...

Heal Thyself O Patient - V

...Debate also should rage if doctors know 
The mystery that human body is: 
It takes two hundred muscles, all on go 
To take but one baby step with some ease, 
Body veins stretched, end to end were...

Heal Thyself O Patient - IV

...In prison, and bereft of all defence,
But my Healer, graver than ever ere, 
Swirls his chair round, yon of window to stare 
As if to get inspired from Providence. 
More of a dumb than mute, I cur...

Heal Thyself O Patient - III

...What else but weight endless for devil’s due? 
And I’d need a few more tests to be sure, 
Grimace or grin, but I ought to endure, 
What greater devil was seemed like dawn’s dew: 
Was it ailment o...

Heal Thyself O Patient - II

...Proffered no reprieve, led was I like cow 
By clinic’s nurse to slaughterhouse, I thought, 
The wise me cursing the rebel me now, 
All mute, betwixt devil-pain-and-doc caught. 
Take thermal waves...

Heal Thyself O Patient - I

...Two scores and more years back, as I recall, 
I find my left elbow pounding with pain 
Mere bending it when turned a task no small, 
And left me clueless for the cause for strain. 
As unknown to ...

Image

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Why to be so much attached to image?
It's what you believe, they should think of you;
Trying to mold to match up their liking;
Changing self as they like, but there's limit.
Develo...

That Accident

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Know very well why you are shedding tears;
but what you gain except remembering
that dreaded sorrowful event of past.
Makes you physically weak as I've fears
it'll affect your life, ...

Question

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What's purpose of life - thought provoking question.
Guidance stated by many is confusing.
Advice received doesn't give any direction.
Some say to find happiness or love people
or ...

24 Murder Me Sestets

...Let me die from its rage
   I am no Lab rat which finds jolly from the syringe
   I am also human, I see no colour lest it's red...
   For we all drip blood when hurt. Bring back my sanity
Libera...

Reassurances

...You want to hear me say I’ll love you forever.
And yes, I well could say those very words to you: 
For after all, they simply state the current truth.
But at the risk of seeming callous or uncouth...

Embrace the Lines

...three rhymed sestets written as a cento (see below) 	

PC       I muse, while the heaving waves of life are rising,
SO      earth’s rampant tides drag one deeper.  Unsurprising
CR      memories b...

My Wants Upon Your Time

...  sestets 

If we should meet;  I pray we do,
it’s first things first I’d wish for you.
If you want friends your want's begun -
an introduction to God’s Son.
Engaged in hope, I’d to hear...

Winters In Florida 2

...sestets

Florida winters are not so keen.
Walking the beaches, I keep seein’
"my kids" or at least their dead ringers.
Can’t say I miss wet, sticky fingers,
cold shoulders, icy stares from my t...

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