Woman (Two Poems For International Women’s Day)

Woman (1) We see the beautiful face And the generous bosoms We see the long lithe stems And the curved rear We see the slender black tresses And the ruby lip gloss We see the rounded hips And the puppy tummy fat We see every minor detail of form Of a graceful gender Except her …

Candle Light

A candle That lit a lone study desk As sequences of words Softly crept through a pupil And lit a lonely thread of a nascent dream A dream to escape one’s birth rite To be that man who lights up a bulb On a two-roomed castle sculpted of bricks  ............. A candle That was lit …

Popular

We breathe in popular culture Like a strain of flu That paralyses the mental faculties And blinds the corners of the eye We work for popular causes What will catch the eye of the masses And portray the shining face Of proxy philanthropists On the front cover of an elitist magazine In a tux that …