delinquent

delinquent

You sound sweet, they have to admit.

There’s a sense of melody,

The noise is, when you strive to sit.

On their treasured measured property

Every time I look at you,

Your rhythm only blesses me

Binds letters with destiny,

I wonder why the sound and look

Don’t marry with the meaning book?

You look and sound so delicate

How horrid is your worth so then!

Do the kids who stick to you

Come from a different den!

Oyé O cries Peter Pan

Santa, Tooth fairy, Piper don’t show

All stuck in caravan.

Have left the town with time and age

Red with anger, wise and rage?

Calling me, so I don’t grow

Calling me so, I don’t grow.

My eyes don’t yet go off your sight

Although, I read and sing until it lies

Soft are they so sitting right?

With open eyes I realise

Rain of questions pouring in

Logic, sense is all within.

They ragged me when I didn’t know

Was hiding in the address though?

They dragged, and threw me out of schools

Teams of learned, grown up fools.

They find me weird and crooked still

Drag me to the court to show

Pluck me like a daffodil?

The word and worth are not to flow.

All I longed was to just exist,

So sat on you, to all resist.

I go back where my nest is strong

Unchained from your worth to be,

Standing on the property

Hey tell them not to get me wrong

For they are also kids like me,

Pass me off as elegant?

The crime of rhyme from time to grow

Can hide inside a silent saint!

In their eyes and ears I’m happy to be

Forever crude, rude and delinquent! 

Unheard

unheard

Your bead is lying on my bed,

It looked at me and perhaps said

A myriad thing I wouldn’t recall

My back is placed against the wall.

I saw your ring on the window-sill,

Waters I hear fall on the floor

For the shower you’re taking still

I lay my ears by the door,

I see your plate with morsel trace,

The chair you sat on a while ago,

You left for work with a smiling face,

Days like these do come and go.

I arouse the promise the necklace made,

I hear the song the ring had said,

Melodies burden do never fade,

You take them off and on instead.

pen-amuse

pen-amuse

my poem came

looking for me

I was looking for my pen

I saw chillies shooting up

From my kitchen garden

She was singing when I was in a meeting place

I looked her in the eye as I was searching for my pen

She was dancing from my office desk on my face

To my head and in my brain

I asked her to stop, she threw a kiss didn’t listen

Open she was with rounds of browns on her chest

There were rhymes and songs pouring from her nest

Off the window she looked like a fish in the cloud

I whispered as I couldn’t speak aloud

          - Stop that dancing it presses my nob

            Can’t you see I have to keep my job?

I pleaded her to stop as I had to type my notes

The onlookers looked at me and at the defunct remotes

She went missing there was no sign of pen

I was on the bus when I saw

trains shouting and piercing up and down afar

In between them I saw her jump and thaw

In seconds she flew running beside my car

Kissing on the glass she was dressed in white

Her grace pure and bright

Her eyes could drown I remembered the brown

Her lips like the waves her whole like the sea

I offered her a ring and whispered around

          - will you re-marry me?

She laughed and laughed, looked at me and laughed again

There was thunder first that melted into rain

She was wet, her hands stretched before me her hair flying away

Clearly I heard her say

          - I could, if only you found your pen

She then threw a rage on my face

The glass cracked

I woke up without a trace

Ran straight into my kitchen garden

Saw no chillies but there arrived a pen.