Thursday 25 October 2012

THESE BIRDS

The birds flutter between brick and tress
I’m all palms for their disinterest –

I know the birds, I don’t know the Name
I bend the brick dangerously in influence
But they’re there and I’m here, so nearby

The dappled beams they register not
I’m so close to blindness and enough
Of wanting to seek, reach, handle
Their security, they all call
But not for me
But I never stand
To address

Their borders stronger than mine

Thursday 11 October 2012

POEMS AND PARANOIA

You tease me about poems and paranoia,
unaware that we are always on guard
with our favourite toys, prepared
to reach the thatched ladder
over the black hole.
The one we are certain
we did not dig.

When you can be fat and happy
hunched over machinery sans guilt,
then you are one rich man falling.

Gift-giving makes such a man nervous
and she has included you childlike
in her great big-hearted basket.

The polishing of pride,
and the lending of contentment
are all swallowed by her good intentions
saved for unity and motherhood.

She kick-starts the leather and merry-go-round
without knowing what she has spun.