Category: POETRY
Dear Mr. Muse,
So it’s you You’re the one that keeps me writing Keeps men pondering Keeps me laughing Keeps my ink flowing Your eyes owe a debt To the pens that have written about them Ten poems to your hands Ten poems to your feet Fifteen to your smiles I could say more but it would take […]
To Her Husband’s Concubine
The woman he loves is bright Her eyes are bright Her chin is one layered Her tummy is round Her hands are small Her nose is pointy Her feet are flat Her face is round Her jawline is sharp Her lips are full Her back is wrinkled Her teeth are cream Her soul is vintage […]
Such Longings
I want to feel something I’m tired of having nothing I want to be doted upon As the thread of life is spun I want to have the heartache I want to eat and have my cake. I want the worrying Worrying that comes from loving I want oh I want Boy Even though he […]
Knocking on open doors
Sitting on the cold bench Waiting for him on that same bench With flowers and chocolate We would have a nice date But he came down from that train With another woman he was married in plain She had a baby bump and a wide smile I wasn’t surprised I had known for a while […]
Home
Bright and early that Sunday morning She walked to the road wearing little or nothing Flagged down a taxi Hoping she had a little money He stopped so she bent and told him “I have little money so will you take me? ” He replied it’s Sunday might as well do a good deed She […]
Those were the days
There were certain days she felt nothing There were days she felt she wouldn’t make it. There were days she felt she didn’t need to worry There were days tears made her vision blurry Those were the days she recorded In her little black diary Days that had scarred so she in turn made marks […]
Hes not Hafeez
My sister had a boyfriend called Hafeez He’d come to the house once or seven times a week They loved each other that I know I wished to have that someday I thought so They’d be in her room laughing for hours That should be no sin I guess At least not ours And then […]
One more time
So here we are Sitting in the car Laughing at something he said Laughing so hard the chuckle never seems to end That smile he said he likes to see He said it’s one of the reasons he’s up Bright and early every morning That I know he loves me I love him so much […]
FASHION
A girl as young as she Fair and lean that’s all you’ll see With heart like gold none has known She believed in all and loved like so Little her heart be Abiding in adult company All she wished all along Can I be like mummy when I grow up? And so that star heard […]
The Christ
Born in a manger in a little village In a town with sheep a very dark age Born to a virgin and her carpenter husband To their name little money one ass no land Quiet he grew among his peers One word for him they noted ” queer” Wisdom he had among his kin Yet […]
