Short Throttles Poems

Elmo Elmo was an elephant seller
He kept a white elephant in the cellar
He swigged all the bottles
Down a hundred throttles
And was turned into a big screw propeller












Elmo Elmo (C) rajat kanti chakrabarty
2014...

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Catching air with you was grand

Our course was preplanned
Three wheels and miles of blow sand

Geared up with throttles in hand

Twin ATVs taming barren land
Never acknowledging the dangers at hand

Airborne alone where did you land...

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Pearl, you are a diamond
I guess she always knew it.
A proper little helper,
helping through and through it.

She never gives a cheerio
or leaving like a plane.
She's always there to scatter sunshine
Even in the rain.

Pearl, you are a diamond
That no one can replace,
Chocking back the throttles
Just like a necker-lace....

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I SEE THE CHRIST
 As life blows; death whistles
As the brave strikes; the naive throttles
No use celebrating my muscles
This too will fizzle

I won’t catch my breathe
I lost not near earth
Better was I at birth
As bare, without a t-shirt

When will the dogs bleat?
I lay watch with sight
When will the sheep bark?
I say this with right

These and more I see
Like many on sand’s sea
My anchor; my capital C
Christ, my only sight to see


THE INVINCIBLE PEN...

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