Tantric melody;
Candied lullaby in his head
Sweet emotions overwhelm;
Soporific and hypnotizing!
Melancholy bids farewell

Outside, dark and gloomy, almost n
Though afternoon, air stagnant, su
Starling clouds, acrobatic feats m
A waiting game for first raindrop
Then, drop after drop came, an end

the jacaranda explodes in purple m
a prince in the midst of the green
in the breeze, its blossoms swayin
under the sun, moist from the morn
the mighty oak spreads its wings t

One clear night
I gazed at the heavens
Marveled at the stars
The constellations
The distant galaxies

Her reaction to the news quite emo
But others would have said simply
For hours and hours, she cried
Cursed at those by her side
And soon enough she became confron

He saw her first at the kissing bo
There, at the university fair
He got a few bills left in his poc
For he missed three meals square;
Gladly he gave up a couple of buck

My friend, I am a simple story-te
Whatever I write, they aren’t tre
For a prophet I’m not, neither a
Nor a philosopher with a grandiose
Simply put, I’m but a lowly balla

Up she goes ten feet high in the a
She spins with legs held tight, pe
He catches her as she descends gra
Her blade touches the ice quietly
The crowd erupts into deafening ap

Torrents! Sheets of rain fell all
At times, six to eight inches an h
Nature’s display of destructive po
And we were impotent before its mi
We watched the fireworks; hunkered

I started writing poetry soon afte
To ease the loneliness and feeling
And to catalogue what I face ever
As I build a new life and bury th
Writing how I felt started to be

a deafening silence
yet she hears a heartbeat
from a great distance,
a doe trying to be discreet.
she scanned the horizon

Decadent, thus tempting
It oozes, like a river
It flows, yet viscous
It’s thick, and rich, and gooey...
So inviting!