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Boudhanath Stupa

Hands brush
Against 
Spinning prayer 
Wheels
Gentle wishes 
Drift among
snap-happy 
Tourists
Who Forget
This moment


Joyful children 
dodging
Wandering priests
Met by 
Disapproval

Swaying flags
Teased
by the breeze
And 
The Stupa 
Towering above 
Us all

Copyright © Keys Giri | Year Posted 2017



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Swing Heil

The flit of peach chiffon skirts, 
 And seas of swirling dancers  
romped, jived, swayed and turned 
Their movements in perfect harmony 
To a freedom so greatly earned 

Her hands, fluidly frolicking 
Into the depths of the pulse 
In swaying synchrony, she plunged  
Her music it bounded, and ricocheted

But the soldiers came storming, storming
Left sharp silence, in their quake
Paralysed to the bone she was playing 
For she knew what lay at stake

Their mouths sloppy and over-
Flowing, chanting Germanic song
A stock-like stance without composure
They jived and swayed all wrong

The night grew older, and a
Long line of empty glass progressed 
Their laughter, alone burdened 
With their  many requests 

Yet Her eyes shone in defiance
Her trumpet,  flew from side to side 
The dynamic beat that ripped through the floorboards
Quickly, the room once again alive, whistles and cries
Mingled admist, the scuffle of ebony shoes

But the soldiers came storming, storming
cold gazes fixed upon their target, 
With one swoop they pounded her
With one swoop they dragged her
Like a tranquilised animal they had her

Her golden trumpet lay dead 
Its golden coat tainted

Copyright © Keys Giri | Year Posted 2018

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A Confession

I have a confession to make 
I have a teeny, weeny
slightly crazy 
morbid fascination with serial killers 
There I said it 
Judge me all you want 
But that won't stop me from 
Fangirling over charles manson 
Watching rerun upon rerun of 
hannibal 
When I tell my mum I'm finishing my homework 
At 3 o'clock at night 


But not to worry 
Cause on second thought 
I happen to think there just maybe a 
teeny, weeny 
slightly crazy inkling of truth 
to that statement

Copyright © Keys Giri | Year Posted 2020


Book: Reflection on the Important Things