an egg-chicken question
cloud-lines and colour-twists
the jumbling of script
and perfuming of song,
a mixing at fingertip
we rarely use.
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Monday, 8 October 2012
Sunday, 7 October 2012
A ballad of ‘lesser things’
caressed
by mist
drenched
with dew drop
rain
drop and sun drop
these
lesser attractions
in
the great plains
the
‘Maha Eliya’
of
kuru-ali legend
and
the grotesque footprints
of
and elephant-killer
and
colonial extractor
kicking our sensibilities
watch
and wilt
flower
and fade
color
and discolor
as
the ancients did
as
we do now
and
perhaps as others will.
FINGERNAILS 2
Love's timeless yardstick
the scratch-test
to measure
in drawn-tear
or nonchalance
the full weight
of heart-return.
Saturday, 6 October 2012
FINGERNAILS 1
The most delicate blades
of impoverishment
the heart's last-gasp utterer
of all the words that won't get said
all the hurt that will not heal
the whisper
of a love as thick as anger
or thicker still
thick beyond memory
and so resolved to die
in the poverty-stricken body-edge
that says so much
and nothing.
the heart's last-gasp utterer
of all the words that won't get said
all the hurt that will not heal
the whisper
of a love as thick as anger
or thicker still
thick beyond memory
and so resolved to die
in the poverty-stricken body-edge
that says so much
and nothing.
Friday, 5 October 2012
No*
The reverse of yes-embroidery
the affirmation by silence
rejection by word
the answer of the confused
as valid
as articulate
as futile
as 'yes',
the underside of 'no',
Siamese word-twin
issue of the immemorial union
of ignorance and arrogance.
the affirmation by silence
rejection by word
the answer of the confused
as valid
as articulate
as futile
as 'yes',
the underside of 'no',
Siamese word-twin
issue of the immemorial union
of ignorance and arrogance.
[Response to Himali Liyanage's request in a give-me-a-word-and-i-give-poem exercise]
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Alexander
You are every child
on every beach
every sand-damp boundary
that came and went
every black-white rendition
that held the entire spectrum
every still photograph
that moved.
on every beach
every sand-damp boundary
that came and went
every black-white rendition
that held the entire spectrum
every still photograph
that moved.
Monday, 1 October 2012
FAITH NODES
Pierce and bind
a
tug-release dance
a
roll-over
and
over again
pin-point
to pin-point
affirmation
testimony
of belief
where
devout submits
without
flinch
and
witness wonders
winces
at perceived pain,
where
primary colour
plays
with primary element
the
timeless tale
of
human frailty
and
endless drawing
from
the unlimited
and
untimate treasury:
faith.
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