SHE SEES

beyond the birdsongs and games 
beyond the immemorial shrines 
of herbal concoctions 
beyond the nebulous clouds 
of crises plaguing her virgin land 
she sees the change... 

beyond the tunnel of travails 
of transporting her people out of her land 
beyond the cosmetropolitan matrix 
she sees the connection... 
beyond the end
she sees the beginning 
and the world and humanity 
are waiting for her.

 

 

GOD SEND MINE [GSM]

 

no thuraya will put me through to God 
no sagem to send my message beyond clouds 
no nokia to knock on heaven's gate 
no motorola to motor me through 
the lonely lane to life 
no trium to make me triumph in the tunnel 
of ten thousand temptations... 
in supplicative gesture 
my two palms confluencing

connecting me beyond connections 
and inspiring me beyond imaginations… 

 

 

  

LAST NIGHT

 

hiding in the crevices of night 
in the vale of deep passion 
burning in the fiery dust of lust 
sandstorm of sentiments searing 
every drop of hesitation... 
our alluvial sweats suffocating every pore 
in moans we exchanged stolen secrets 
and swore no eye could see us 
but foolish 
you and i 
the moon the stars blind be 
does he sleep?

 

 

 

SEEDS OF PASSION

 

in the garden of my heart 
where resplendent meanings adorn 
the lingering lushness of passion 
where flowering sentiments stand  in style 
rooted in romantic robustness  of fertile heart 
in the garden of my heart 
where flourishing flowers of feelings  
flaunt freely like waves of iridescent  
colours caressing a canvas 
the canvas of my heart 
where dew drops of desires  
perform baptism on the innermost soil of my soul  
the former seeds dying giving way  
to newer finer seeds of passion.

 

 

 

IN BRIEF

 

a glint of ecstasy 
in the eye-corner 
a stimulating stroke of the tresses 
a lingering landing of lissom lips 
on landscape of the mouth 
a desire of the eyes 
and of the flesh 
a trust forged in lust ends in dust.

 

 

 

BYE-BYE FRANCIS

 

expressed in the stillness 
full of profundity 
you have become an unknown quality 
of a step between life and death 
that all flesh is grass 
the flower falls 
and like a candle in the wind 
your breath went off 
life has become a permanent absence 
packing an eternity 
into one final look 
i bid you adieu.

 

  

 

OUR GARDEN

 

the euphony 
that of a symphony of pleasant 
birdsong well-sung 
in the eastern garden well-stretched 
with a smiling sun standing above 
and the world rises in rose-water scents 
from fragrance of flourishing flowers 
here all animals are ours 
and the cascading waterfall us showers 
sweet waters from unceasing rivers 
in the heat of which we say ha 
giving pleasure without measure 
here lies many a treasure 
how we gyrate in happifying gesture

this is eden the start of our dreams 
till someone dents this dainty delectable garden 
and goes hiding... 

 

 

SHE

she roams like a sentence without a period

she stands like a perfectly misplaced preposition

in a simple sentence

 

she gazes queryingly like a strand of question-mark

she yearns for morrow like a future tense

she looks blue like a noun in want of a pronoun

she’s a gorgeous girl like an adjective

in its superlative

she’s concise precise like a one-word sentence

 

she’s charming and even

like the figure after seven

she’s slim as two divided by two

she’s overwhelming like Chinese characters

she’s a hypertensive interjection

a stroke of comma and

an eventual full-stop.

 

 

 

CAN YOU DO THIS?

 

kindle a ray of riddle

rove a lane of love

 

ponder a wave of wonder

pause a flame of force

 

pacify a pang of passion

fondle a bundle of trouble

 

burst a bubble of lust

flush a rush of crush

 

scream a rhythm of dream

drain a rain of strain

 

extinguish angst of anguish.

 

 

 

KALEIDOSCOPE

 

tempting like a flesh-revealing dress

shameless like a one-night stand

unholy like two illicit love-makers

illegitimate like a love-child

insatiable like an incorrigible nympho

traumatized like a violated virgin

lonely like a jilted lover

agonizing like an unrequited love

frustrated like a loverless spinster

searching like an overdue bachelor

intoxicating like a first love

lingering like a loving kiss

ecstatic like a romantic feeling

intact like a virtuous virgin

faithful like two true-blue lovers

hopeful like a courting couple

united like a happily married couple

fulfilled like a dream come true.