Mark itA word loses its weightWhen it peaks and it’s used as baitSo rate a word to know its stateBefore you commit to its meaning IbThere a beauty standsKnee deep in the pool of her own tearsReiterating the fears which rains on her dayDue to her belief in the word forever IIForever today can mean […]
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OUR ACTIONS AND INACTIONS
When winds of the past blow…into the tsunamis of the futureAs the airs of the present watchLet deeds clap for seeds unplanted…seeds which grew out of the dust of our loss IIWhen ghosts of our past…look for the fetuses of our futureAs we sit and playLet lives clap for death…in a comedy worthy of the […]
EACH AND ITS TALIBAN
Every nation has its TalibanSo before eyes widely open to sensor sympathiesAnd mouths incense tongues to utter obscenitiesLook within your sovereigntyTo identify your Taliban IIForget Corona arresting the will of the worldThe Rose has moral TalibanWith freedom reaching peaks of a boundaryless worryCostus Spectabilis has its own TalibansFrom unseen and seen hands in public coffers…to […]
HOLY KISSES
Oh, how hearty His hall hails!Ah, how hot His horns howl!Oh, how high His heaven hisses!Yieee, how hateful His holiness hosts! As He hovers heavily around His hectic house, …hectic house of horrendous happenings! IIKindness kisses kids – Key-morals killed in knowledge!Happiness heckles through hoaxesHorrors heap like higher hillsHums of hundred hymns turn hysteriaAs hope […]
YOURS TO HOLD
If a water lily promises to let you drownDon’t think it is just bragging to have you frownFor it knows all the deep parts of river townsAnd can drown to crown itself boss of your deadly frown IIIf a mosquito promises to give you malariaYou don’t go thinking it has only a small areaIt can […]