Poems

It wasn’t a prison…

it was our little gamehe’d set up apretty cageof iron barsaround meand smile, “escape.”I’d tuck in my stomachand slip through the barsand run into his arms he would…

Beginnings

The ice is melting awayThe dark cloud of griefAtop my head, gone This feeling growing is unusualIt is new and green like theGrass peeking through the white. A…

Did we grow up

Did we grow up? What time was it? Before you were 18?You crossed the street,You crossed your legs and came across a little cold.And it was all, with…

Harvest

I’ve always loved harvestThe colours, the way they blendSplashing my eyes with bright shadesThe sun, still with it’s scorching effectBut me, blind to it all. What I loved…

doctowl

An amber- coloured sky, A floating shadow With a scythe in hand and a raised hat in the other “for I’m finally the victor…again- One has finally released…

/a-liv/ 1

For a long time nowI have forgotten my storiesAh! the joy-It’s all coming back to meThe stories of my becoming I pray you-My good appearance of conciliation-to wait…

On Years… And goodbyes

Cycles and seasons throw their weight on us,Forcing our legs and hips to move to their impatient rhythms…Like how it was January few days ago,And now we’re sticking…

Death is a Companion

I have not seen death Neither have I tasted of death’s own poison But I have smelled death I know how it smells like Death smells like December…

Disaster.

. I was barely an infant when I got my ear full of tales,Of how it was paramount to do no wrong,Because well, bad things happened to sinners,Like…

If Life Were A Movie

If life were a movie I’d hit fast forward Go past all the milestones in a breeze And then rewind to the playground If life were a fairy-tale…