Category: Poetry

Humpty Dumpty

Lived a man named Humpty Dumpty
He had two left feet, he was so clumsy.

One day he fell asleep on his couch 
Slipped down like an eel, hurt himself ‘ouch’

But then he picked himself up 
Sleep walked into the bath tub .

He did not drown, the tub was empty 
As the water was out doin a tsunami.

Ebit

Space-lit tokens 
Tangle virtual 
Cryptic stakeout 
A jarful of block chain
Digital spun timelines 
The e in the emoney
Ether bold currency 
Wallet coding 
Currently hopium.

Scamdemic

Scamdemic 
Pandemic 
Endless epidemic 
Made me weak
No exercise 
No sleep
Made me sick 
Sitting at home 
Weary to the bone
Am always on the phone
Feeling all alone

If vaccine is the cure
I took it
I feel sick all the more
I wonder what is in store 

Will death come before?
Or will they kill us
With another lockdown 
Bulldozing the economy into breaking down 
Sword of Damocles hanging on heads like a thorny crown.

Pharma mongers plunder
Throwing vulnerabilities asunder 
Masses knuckle under
The big powers big blunder 
Politicians puny worth
The muck, the scum of earth 
Weapons of masked destruction, sanitizers , the works
A sanity rush going berserk 

Destroying mankind’s pulse
The ruckus of a black fungus ..

I check to see if my oximeter still works ..

Dad

On the phone
His sepia smile 
The timbre of his voice 

In the sunshine of forgetfulness
I look for nature’s colourful cursive footnotes 
Stash my pocket with wildflowers 
A flower for each moment I miss you 
Together we smile and sky write into the cosmos 
You live beyond us
Into eternity 

I trace a poem into my heart.

My Faltering Quill

Tapping into my cosmic heart 
I shake the stars from the constellations 
A blues breeze wraps starry 
Gypsy notes 
Scatter the Milky Way 
Cereus blooms fuse scents of a jazz  manouche 
The moon cleaves the ether 


I write a poem in the dying light 
My quill falters...

Children In Mourning






Virgin shrouds
Mourning wombs
Innocence cut short
Parents' lap
Empty broken
Shoulders weary
Eyes weighed
Bullets strayed
Nameless assail
Hopes frail.

When bombs fly
And sirens cry
Children cannot defy
They wonder if they 
Will live to see
Another dawn
Play and run all day long
And they wonder 
What the fighting is all about?