Short Roved Poems

There once was a tailor
I got him to stitch me a shirt
he humbly said, "It is thirty bucks"
I enquired, "Is it in dollar, rupee or in pound?"
Not sure where I am now
As I roved from so much...

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Water wives live sheltered lives
Amongst the coves where pirates rove

Daily catch is makers match
Where red hot stoves hide fresh baked loaves

Water men are thick and thin
So often strove where shipmates hove

Water child is often wild
The treasure trove where pirates roved

19Mar14...

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And the sun roved into darkness
And gazed upon the luminous moon
With its golden stake rays

And the moon burst into brightness
And showered upon the gloomy earth
Its glorious white shiny spectacle

There I was,
Tangled in the loins of another
The moonlight, a tattoo on my skin

Her touch soothed me
Her presence calmed me
And her being laid me to transient rest...

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ah, thou ancient nest!
thou dark & beaming nest
planted by the river-side
near thine old Iroko tree
lofty, calm with ever fresh confident 
who wove thine primal tread?
who crafted thine sole resolve?
what artist cast thine golden laughter?
methinks some weird minstrels
with young elegant maidens
softy hired of golden black hairs
mingling with their rural drums
amid hunters wild & fierce looking
roved amid thine mid-night rites.

(to be continued)...

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