Pensive Soul: 2024

Saturday, 21 December 2024

Your wicked ways

captivate me

than your passion ever will

this reason why

I feel you

but can't quite feel for you still

lots of words

devoid of action

so loveless

to the core

Is enough

your only offer

when what I seek

is more?

dexterity

to command the heart

and cause the mind to yield

more love

to keep these eyes from wandering

and on the dream world

put a seal

more power

to create recipes

and make boasts publicly

more compassion

more wisdom and

more integrity

your wicked tides

concern me

more than

your passion-sea

It's such a shame

you've not yet mastered

these things in life

so free

Tuesday, 3 December 2024

IN THE RING

I duck

not out of fear

I duck

because, secretly

I do not want to be here

In, this, ring

that I

did, not, choose

so I duck and I block

as if prepared to lose

There are easier ways to live

You see my footwork?

fancy and fast!

It is certainly not the skill

of one

that comes last

so I parry and I roll

even to this crowd's scorn

I duck

brother-man

so you can carry on

I duck

to contemplate

who will rise

if you fall in this ring

I duck

because I know it takes one

swing

to win

so I bob and weave

and even slip

It is life that has put me in this situation

and I do not want to hit

You

So I duck

in full capacity

and I duck

not out of timidity

I duck

because I know my strength

and she is no easy contender

full of wisdom

full of knowledge

full of favor ,spirit

and full of power

I bow and bend

restrain her

Monday, 29 July 2024

Time

Time does not come
times do not go
time is
an imagined construct
that we allow
to show
on man-made
devices

which shadow the sun.
Sand drips and drops,
and tick-tocks,
to give us
pretended control
of each second
of this
auxiliary life.

Saturday, 13 July 2024

Power of colour

Oh the smiling faces

almost tainted

by longing gazes

for sounds only

the hearing ears

could decipher

Oh the raised brows

of twitching noses

that separates scents

from rage to roses

and embrace real odor

as smiling faces

grow wider

Let not the heart trip

awaiting

the eyes embrace

of such arrivals

that has true power

to paint

the smiling face

and colour

the senses

Saturday, 29 June 2024

Annulled Annums

Oh 1985,

I can barely feel you

Or remember the journey

you took me through

Dear 1993,

You are now lost in oblivion

You're

Just another place

I used to be

Hey 1999

Your pain has

disappeared

and with it

a myriad of uncertainties

2004

I still dance to some of your music

but your presence

is fading quick

For I cannot re-visit

these annums

In your absence

Wednesday, 3 January 2024

Same Circle Different Tangent

Same circle

different tangent

Two hearts

That love so different

Two minds

intertwined

Just on the diameter

Two radii

That do not arc

though joined at the center

Same circle

different tangent

Two angles in-congruent

in the same segment

No 90 degree turn

In these semicircles

of fences

Angles on a chord

With no compliment

Same circle

different tangent

An ongoing whirl

With much acquiescence

A center

No 2 times greater

than our circumference

quadrilateral-opposites

With 180-Straight talk

And extensive strange acts

Same circle

different tangents

Two hearts

That love so different

Absentee

I felt your absence

Even when light

illuminated your shadow

I felt your absence

in those empty actions

and crafty truths

I felt your absence

In the obscurity

of your soul

The truth be told

I never knew

darkness

could be so heavy

I never knew

Inaction

could be so troubling

I never knew obscurity

Could be so terrific

Until

I felt your absence