poetry – A Geezer’s Garden of Verses

Earth Prayer

Illustration by Khorshed Dubash Let me sit where the Earth will hearThough I don’t know what I’ll say,Where river breezes banish fear,I’ll sit me down to pray. Apologies unnecessary,Yet the wounds I’ve made are deep,What could I do to make it upBefore She puts me back to sleep? Honor Her from this day forth?That couldContinue reading “Earth Prayer”

Gallop

And the day will comeAnd then will be goneAnd you did what you waited to doAnd moved on, And the reckoning cameAnd went just as fastBecause nothing no nothingIn this little world lasts, And you faced the demonThe moment of truth,But you kept on runningChasing your youth, And looking for somethingBeyond your noseThe shape ofContinue reading “Gallop”

Debt

Why do you say father And not the soil?Each minute particleTo consciously or unconsciouslySay yes to, but do we? Or do we preen insteadAnd abdicateKnowledge blindly passedTo the other particles So that no one can Distinguish his brotherTo say thank you.

I’m a Little Teapot

I’m a little teapotShort and stout,Last night I was MosesSpeaking on the Mount,Increasingly these episodesAre what I am about,Don’t tip me overI’m filled with doubt. Frere Jacques Frere Jacques visits his rich brother. They have a lovely dinner and drink so much wine that Jacques falls asleep. His brother has to leave, but before heContinue reading “I’m a Little Teapot”