The Drummer
...Beats are like that,
you know….
they can jazz the soul,
bump the heart, and get
one’s feet ceremoniously
tapping—fingers snapping:
for sure, I am a Thumper,
Banger—Slammer, first
on skins, ...
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Categories:
sizzlers, age, freedom, inspirational, music,
Form: Free verse
Summer Heat
...heat haze
wetted sweaters
ennervating spirits
waiting sizzlers in scorching woks
mirage...
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Categories:
sizzlers, summer, sun,
Form: Cinquain
Winter Delay
...Winter Delay
A gypsy man adorned by a hood
clad in multilayered robe,
comes to usher to the masses
about the magic of season.
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Categories:
sizzlers, beauty, blessing, imagery, weather,
Form: Free verse
Outside My Window
...Right outside my window
Wafting up inside,
Starting every morning,
Continues through the night,
Foods from every nation,
Right here where I live
Delicious and very tasty,
Different foods Inste...
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Categories:
sizzlers, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Choices We Make In Life
...(Blame Game)
I sat down silently praying
Lambasted and humiliated
Before my stunned peers
My blood boiled, perhaps even curdled
Simmering my almost roasted brain
Skinny sinews tightened
Che...
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Categories:
sizzlers, anger, prayer, school, teacher,
Form: Didactic
Park Street, Kolkata
...Syrupy with recipe ran along brasseries
Peiping, Mags and Oasis pricey rotisseries
Sizzling sizzlers the Peter Cat’s clamor
Addled couples fending their pockets out of scarce.
Boogie with de...
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Categories:
sizzlers, people, places, school, urban,
Form: Blank verse