A Suicide Note

It was a pristine love, of another - the other The fling that could never be And the perennial ring that forever was What love undressed rested in an oasis Far beyond the edge of a dream A journey she pursued in vigils of prayer And tender love plucked in fingers And one day, when …

Immolation of A Vietnamese Monk

Pitch-black smoke rises From insatiable flames Kindled by the colossal fires within Yet blazing like an oilfield outside Fiery orange and saffron yellow become one As one soul found an outlet One frame was immortalized For one man to reverberate through time As a million consciences combusted To the tinder of grief

Fallen Soldier

An unnamed tomb Where claimants lay estranged And anonymity is labeled In the absence of a name The burial place of stillness A vacancy within a body Where a soul fled to a bullet that bled Where bravery is heralded in an epitaph And chivalry echoes in a meditative silence And encased within is one …

Cork

Stopper of leakage and drip Spawned out of soft bark Stripped from boughs of cork oak Carved from plank to a tender barrel  Impermeable in pedigree And withstanding the decay of time A creature that ages, to bear vintage perfection Sealing the brink of a glass neck Only to leap up and beyond in sodden …

First Time

A protracted dream was undone A tapestry of fine lace was undressed Body and body coalesced Voice found unknown degrees of freedom As the song of bliss found her stellar range Amidst interludes of sordid whispers Basins were filled and emptied By the poetic tide of love As matter crashed against vacancy In percolating tears …

Colombo Crow

Ubiquity perpetuates in an endless caw A creature loathed for her lack of etiquette and beauty An avian demon that litters the azure skyline Even the arboreal asylums Yet beneath the coal-black veneer Lies a Merlinian wizard of evolution A geographical radiation conjured by seed And conquered by her intrinsic plasticity And beyond her costume …

Wave

Where the past undulates to the future  Where no two points are identical Prima ballerina of nature In a water ballet of flow and ebb  In vigils of graceful motion, unbroken in perpetuation Lingering in the shadow of the moon A frothy journeyman and effervescent tumbler A bipolar force that flatters to deceive In the …

Scar

Pealed skin Coronated by a mound of cinnabar Of interwoven lattices fed with coagulant A pellicle of curdled blood Bridging a tributary of cracked skin A conduit between fate's incursion And time's miraculous remedy What teases to reminisce But ails to forget

Continuum

On the lofty comforts of a peduncle A floral septuplet rests idle In a monastic meditation Amidst the circumambulation Of restless motion As solitude intercalates with saturation To cross-pollinate a grain of beauty In one timeless frame