Elemental

an open word 
suntanned 
moonbleached
spellbound 
star bewitched 
equal parts of everything 

I touch this jewelled infinity ..

8 Bits

Let me inside 
‘the stars in your eyes’ 
‘the butterflies in your stomach ‘
your telepathic sixth sense 

I am just a byte away..

Chicken Trouble

There lived a man in Timbuktu 
who made himself some chicken stew.

the hardly alive chicken broke out from the cooking pot 
clucking , she flew at him steaming hot 

she was a cocky chick, she flew the coop
the poor man’s dinner plans she blew

he lost his appetite and his stew
he only had coffee left to brew. 

Unwinged

I sat and dreamed 
under the sky:
but I just could not fly… 

Tongue Tied

words divide us
not worlds or continents… 

At The Page’s Edge

I am always in the middle of a bloody battle teetering off the edge of a page clinging to alphabets that drop like seeds that sprout and harvest blue ink flowers that give me my wildflower smile. 

Footnote

I exist 
in the 
timelessness 
of my 
poetic 
endeavours.

Haiku X

the January cold’s 
biting solitude:
an empty page 

Bleeding

As I lay bleeding from inside, they walk all over me 
Their footprints locked in my blood’s captivity .

My hands are empty, I have lost all my words 
The pages in my book whisper, their screams go unheard. 

I can no longer see or feel my dreams 
still, my dreams reach out to me , give me self esteem. 

Dreams taken from me, lost along the way 
I still feel them, I know they won’t betray.

I cling to my quill and feel it’s comfort 
when I scribe, my thoughts are comfortably versed. 

I will not let the ink dry on my soul 
my subconscious hope will always console. 

Stargazing – A Pleiades

Sweeping me off my feet
Starry eyed, I gaze at the 
Sojourn of lustrous stars 
Surfing the empyrean 
Saturating air with stardust 
Streaking the celestial 
Scintillating the nova 

Spectacle galactic 
Spinning inky aether 
Spellbinding gravity 
Stringing the Big Dipper 
Shimmering Milky Way 
Stunning, dazzling me as 
Shooting stars wish me well.


# Pleiades