Friday, January 17, 2014

A promised cycle ride

A promised cycle ride

I took her off from the car,
There was a cycle waiting for us,
She wouldn’t ride on it, no fuss…
Until I told her we wouldn’t go much far.

There was this meadow lush green,
Wearing a necklace of a street,
Soft Sun I cycled for once outside the gym,
With both of us there out for a treat.

She touched my cheek I know she didn’t want,
Bubbles in my heart dancing taking vault,
My one track mind tippled to the touch of my mate,
This went on and on without any halt.

Crrring! Crrring! At times I blew the bell,
She giggled like a baby I enjoyed it like hell,
I wondered why do people move inside a car?
With closeness such as this a cycle is a star!

My arms were strong enough for her to take rest,
We gazed at the birds flying in and out of their nest,
At times we stopped to drink coconut water,
I cycled all along for more than an hour.

She leaned on me with her eyes closed inside my chest,
Her hair in the air was flying at its best,
I swear to me it felt as though,
We were in an outstanding hammock of a moving meadow!

There the journey ended we were in front of our car,
She was looking at it as if it wasn’t now so fair,
She wouldn’t get in until I promised we’ll be back,
Cycle ride's all fun in cities we often lack!

Lizard crawls the wall

Lizard crawls the wall 
Staircase takes steps of workers
Ladder lies beside

Battle on table

Battle on table
Fair unfair words exchange
Looking for a chair

Calendar changes

Calendar changes
A child is building sand house
Waves come and waves go 

The dog and the man

Your move says the man
The dog sees the game and barks
No it is your turn

birth

It was dark it felt 
Safe to make love in the womb
Children born afresh.

Debate

Debate storms the room
Honesty integrity
Cattles graze outside

After twenty years

After twenty years
A child is released from there
Kitchen smells so nice

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Ode to darkness

Ode to darkness

Oh light! It’s the endemic light again!
Differences of all kinds surface…
A 4.667 is so visibly different from a 4.338 and a 4.886,
A brown not like the black not like the white;
We the alphanumeric peoples, who dress and eat alike unlike,
Exposed to the Sunlight,
With our brains and bloods,
Are delighted to shout!
We so vividly mismatch with us,
Inequality hisses in the veins to spread it over and over again:
A mountain, a hill, a hillock, a cow, a pig, a bullock,
A shrub, can never be a tree,
So many of us have so much to show and see.
 
O darkness! Cover the world with clarity.
With you, a meadow and the sea,
A fly, a bird, a bee, cities, towns, countries,
All there like the look alike:
The soft peoples, making love now,
Fatigued with enlightenment were so hard in your absence!
When you are there dear no one can fight,
O scientist! Invent a switch,
To blacken, the day,
So I can switch darkness on;
When we fight till night from the dawn,
When differences cannot stay…
When words written here too wither away!

Les mains douces

Les mains douces

Les mains douces
Voyagent dans un corps
Immobil toute à l’heure,

Les mains douces
Travaillent pour gagner la vie
Inutiles dures,

Les mains douces 
Disent, elles auraient dû faire ceci plutôt que cela
Regarde! Mouillées, elles disent Adieu voilà,

Les mains douces
Creusent la tombe
La personne vient de les enlever.

English translation


Soft hands

Soft hands 
Travel in a body 
Still just now, 

Soft hands 
Work to earn a living 
Useless hard, 

Soft hands 
Say, they should have done this instead of that 
Look! Wet, they say bye here, 

Soft hands 
Dig the grave 
The person has just come to take them away.