Poetry Category
Monday’s Child
Posted on June 25, 2020 7 Comments
Monday is born into a full family.One Standard Issue Dad™,One slightly dented, but still good Mum,Two broken-limbed brothers, and one sullen but loving sister.
Love is a string of cheese
Posted on April 3, 2019 6 Comments
‘Who says a heart must be rent
At an emotional whirlwind’s whim?’ Poetry this week for the YeahWrite #416 NonFiction grid.
Lovers’ tryst
Posted on December 26, 2017 16 Comments
Prompted by their tryst eternal, Sea sends wave on crashing wave, Churning, frothing, roiling Ocean, spits her foaming peaks so bright. Sand awaits impatiently, holding to his word and promise.
Rebuilding Democracy
Posted on July 15, 2016
I wrote this a while back. Still seems relevant. Apartheid imprisons Equality. In darkness and solitude, segregated for colour, it breeds with Revolt to produce swearing, jostling words plotting escape. Freedom creeps out one night, slinking past guards, disguised as Non-violence. Opportunity seeks refuge and gains followers in New York and London. After twenty-seven […]
Rising Dawn and Fleeing Passions
Posted on January 27, 2016 11 Comments
I pick my way through clothes, scattered across the floor. Yanked from our bodies in urgent, heated tugs, they lie jumbled, tumbled, A confusion of his and hers and yours and mine and who’s sock is this, I can’t quite see? Fumbling, stumbling, clutching, gathering armfuls as I go,
And So It Goes
Posted on December 27, 2014 2 Comments
Their eyes met, her heart beat a little faster, “hi” she said. He smiled quietly. “You’re the one. The one I’ve been searching for all my life,” she said. He smiled quietly.
Asha Rajan 