WAITING FOR DEATH
Daily I strolled, past this old man's house
And there he sat, from dawn to dusk
His mien, tenebrific uncompromisingly
Hunched in his chair, dried to the bone
Cold and crabby, waiting...just waiting
And so I dared ask one dreich, dreary day
"Good sir, what keeps you out here everyday?
"For I see, it takes a mighty bit of your time"
He spared me a frown, s disturbance I'd say
"I'm waiting for Death, that crafty crafty lout"
Confused I was, that one would pass time thus
I leaned on his fence, my curiosity compelled
For to me, this was one quite curious event
"Won't let that philistine sneak up on me" he said
"I'm smarter you see, won't be caught unawares"
"I made no investment, no profit I stacked"
"I lived my whole life at the barest I could"
"And stored not treasure, for that it would steal"
"And had me no pleasure, Ha! a surprise it'd be"
"Let death come for me, there is nothing to take"
I walked away, contemplating the perplexity
How a life would be wasted in such a wary way
For to await an event with no appointment
And to deprive oneself over such a quandary
Is in itself, i'd clearly say, a sad, very sad life.
Categories:
uncompromisingly, africa, death, life, literature,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Squickleby Pickleby
Nicholas Nickleby
loses his Father and
feels quite forlorn.
Ralph his tight uncle a
disciplinarian
mean to the marrow
regards him with scorn.
Nicholas, penniless
uncompromisingly
works as a master where
boys take the flack.
Nickleby fears for the
safety of orphans there
rescues a cripple and
never looks back.
Granted this ending is
unsatisfactory
Dickens had plenty more
meat to this tale.
So to all readers I
send my apologies;
These double dactyls are
tricky travail.
01.01.2021
Based on the novel 'Nicholas Nickleby' by Charles Dickens
Double Dactyl (Win For Paid Membership) Poetry Contest
Sponsor : William Kekaula
Categories:
uncompromisingly, literature,
Form: Double Dactyl
His thirst being unquenchable, the seeker flounders about distraught, rejecting all transient sensory gratification, uncompromisingly yearning for lasting fulfilment. Exhausted, he closes his eyes and goes in, within, into the dark void of vibrant emptiness. Present thus, as awareness without thought, alertly poised without any restrictive fear or desire, he is swathed in waves of ineffable ecstatic bliss. Imbibing and assimilating the elixir, he vaporises to become the current itself.
Twice born he lives on
Radiant bliss with no name
You are He, he says
13-August-2020
Categories:
uncompromisingly, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
Tolerance!
From your mid-air balcony
While responding to greetings
Spread over on land below,
Drizzling on your wrist/
The waving star studded bracelets,
I don’t know why-
Reminded me
Those rough hands of juvenile kids
Picking their livelihood
Out of municipality’s dust-bins?
On wounded shoulders,
Those you stood upon to plan
Strategies of despicable scams
And so uncompromisingly
Marketed rainbow of dreams,
Resting on them
Flags of your ‘intolerance’
On prohibited roads
I don’t grasp how-
Appeared to me
To be fluttering rags,
Begging before public places?
Cushions of the facilities,
You enjoyed without having
To work in tea gardens
And in offices of shopkeepers,
In anticipation of being snatched
By the faceless folks
Coughed out the fear
Of unwarranted intolerance!
You owe them something or what?
Categories:
uncompromisingly, analogy, betrayal, bullying, conflict,
Form: Blank verse
Our Country's bright future rests on our Youth,
and for that,it is our top priority to make the path smooth.
Youth is the energetic stage of life which can inspire many souls,
and is also the crucial period for achieving our desired goals.
It is the right platform for us to showcase our leadership qualities,
and ideally for generating mind provoking thoughts in large quantities.
But,this is also the time during which many can't resist to their temptations,
and sadly these days,many murder and suicide incidents are creating sensations!!!
Ultimately,these sensations are not what we require,
but we need a good temperament that we can acquire.
So,it is essential for the youth to develop comprehensively,
and make everyone proud and happy by working uncompromisingly.
Categories:
uncompromisingly, youth,
Form: Light Verse
From the world
of Unspeakable
Delights, here you
come
walking and swaying down the
aisle - blessed
with sweetness and bathed
in tenderness - boldly
naked before
me
Anointed with
royal
charisma and power, you
trick me with your
silvery
voice and jolly disposition for
one
more chance to stare at
me uncompromisingly and
methodically
hand searching my soul and
body - faster and
faster - biting each
morsel in
before drowning lost
into my
eyes, intoxicated.
Breathlessly unassisted by your
mind, your
hands contort seeking a
way to either
touch me or find
shelter whereas your divine
lips shiver in distress.
On those
very - divine
indeed - lips of yours my world
gets done and
undone each and every
given day.
Categories:
uncompromisingly, love, me,
Form: Free verse
2.03.09
Two women -
Two women who've lost Him,
Lost Him once and for all.
You - through the pain of childbearing,
I - through cruelties of love...
Two women -
Two women who've lost Him,
So close and yet so far apart -
So uncompromisingly different
With the very same pain in their hearts...
And even though I may not know You,
Before You I'd stand in deep awe -
You gave me true Hope, always precious -
You gave me the man that I love...
[Dedicated to the Mother of my still beloved A.K...]
Categories:
uncompromisingly, dedication, family, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme
Oh yes, today just like yesterday,
she promises,
to love me more!
But, when the music begins
to summon her, with a passionate melody
and its calling…
Ahh! When the music plays
that needs her attention, she
uncompromisingly looks back
At the central stage,
where she was once a queen,
…and searches for the aroma of her night lovers.
Categories:
uncompromisingly, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, love,
Form: Free verse