The Sunday Poet

When the weight of the world is fleetingly off my shoulder,

I let ink drip from my head onto paper.

The Pernicious Poet mocks me about words lost.

I do not chose to write on Mondays,

About love lost and hearts tossed,

I write on borrowed time on Sundays.

He asks me, “ Will you fly on artistic ventures?”

“ Or will we be another autistic dementor?”

He tells me I will be another brick in the wall,

Because no belle dame sans merci has me in thrall!

He dreams of Ozymandias in daffodils,

And I cannot sleep thinking of the bills.

He tells me the sky is but a landfill,

And I’m just busy working my power drill.

He tells me I will always have a writer’s block,

You can only write on blackboards with white chalk.

He tells me to to live everyday as my last,

I say, If today were the last, I’m at peace with the past.

He tells me to pull the trigger, drop the blade, seize the day!

And I pick the pen-today I write, it is a Sunday.

The Pernicious Poet tells me Poetry only comes from Poverty,

I tell him that is exactly why I write on Sundays strictly.

Pensively the Pernicious Poet provokes

“Do you want to write? Or do you want to be happy?”

I do not mean it to be snarky,

I chose to write on Sundays so on other days,

I can be happy.

When the weight of the world is fleetingly off my shoulder,

I let ink drip from my head onto paper.

Sessions

Hello again it's you and me,
coffee for you and words for me.
Fresh paint on my walls and a thousand stories,
Of ups and downs and flailing glory.
A nervous laugh and you tell me,
Of childhood ghosts and new found fears.
On reckless nights down we go,
Opening ourselves and mixing tears.
But now our time is done ,
we go into life and oblivion .

In this moment , if we chose to stay,
We'll build our bridges and barricades.
Time and place won't mean a thing,
A thousand years or decades.
That was there time, this is our place.
We won't be lost cuz we've been saved.

Hello again, it's you and me,
kinda how it used to be.
Been so long since you've seen me,
I've got new stories and new memories.
So pick one gem hanging in the air ,
as we go into conversation.
Sailing uncharted waters ,
of our begginings and our ends.

Where are you, Vincent?

If Van Gogh were alive today,
He wold sell socks on the pavement.
We would steal his paints and replace them with a begging bowl.
We would take his brushes,
And replace them with books.
Books of science and mathematics and instructions ,
On how to be a contributing member of society.
And then we'd say' Paint us something, you're the painter man!
Do your job anyway?'
'Not in wavy colours! Paint in black and grey !'
He'd run away with his oranges too a far off field,
And we'd laugh into his hazy eyes, as he'd scream colour from his veins.
We'd pelt his eyes with stones on starry nights.
We'd burn gardens of his almond blossoms.
We'd make sure he never touched canvas with colour.
He would beg on the streets for kind words and for food.
And we would spit in his bowl (which we gave him) and his art books.
We would never buy the socks he sold,
Or the dreams that died with him in blood cold.
If Van Gogh lived today,
He would still cut his ear,
And we wouldn't shed a damn tear.

#Colourblind

I want to write poems in fountain pen ink,
-Hazy purple, on yellowed pages,
On the back of a novel, unopened for ages.
But I can't make a mark,
On this blue screen of computer bark.

I want to buy a guitar from that old pawn shop,
In the old part of town, with a tea stained table top.
They tell me at the store,"Gone are the blues and bebop!"
So I buy myself today's harp-the latest laptop.

I used to buy Rubik's cubes from an old Parsi shop in Bombay,
But the mall there now sells cubes with fifty four pieces of gray.
So I try to meet the changing times halfway,
And buy my food in predigested sachets!

To eat out is in, cooking with calories is a sin!
To kill language to save a few seconds is #hip,
But you better spend hours to find the filter to hide that melanin.
Like the cubes, all is gray in this township.

Sitting in this colour blind sink,
I want to write poems in fountain pen ink,
-Hazy purple , on yellowed pages,
On the back of a novel, unread for ages.

Rope/ For CC

I carry pocket size chaos on my shoulder,

As I push my Sisyphean boulder.

I sit by the sea with ennui,

As the waves wash away every buoy.

Do not throw me rope!

You don’t know my chaos’ scope!

Hold your sympathetic display,

For I am the autumn moon,I am the highway!

The breadth of my inner wings,

Cannot be measured by man made things.

Do not throw me rope!

I am nefarious! Throw me hope!

I gather my chaos now spread over me so chaotically,

By my mind full of thoughts of excesses sought.

Collecting it in a manner oh so orderly,

Into a chaos pocket sized and 10000 watts.

As I push my Sisyphean boulder,

I carry pocket sized chaos on my shoulder.

/* This is for the sad loss of Chris Cornell. RIP Shadow King and say hello to heaven */

Someday I'll Fly

Someday I’ll fly,

Beyond the questions ‘what?’, ‘where?’and ‘why?’,

To where answers are only given with a sigh.

To where time does not fly by the bye,

A day,

A year,

Forever,

Are meaningless words to say.

Someday I’ll see,

Beyond the need to be,

Loved as to love.

Beyond the smell of burning clove,

As smoke

    Takes away

All woes.

Someday I’ll  write,

To not stub out ends of burning hearts by the night,

But to be one with beauty in all it’s might.

Someday I’ll pick up crumpled papers of poetry,

Rising

Beyond

Their blight.

Someday when the chords turn minor,

I shall not glance at the world’s pyre.

Even when I’m down to the wire,

I shall dance,dance,dance,

Through

The

Fire.

/* Check out this fine ditty whilst you read these words. There's also a rather rough take of a piece of music I think goes well with these words */

You remember the days?

You remember the days?

When you walked in sepia streets of nostalgia,

When you rose in roses of stupor,arms and melancholia.

You remember the days?

When you woke with a head spinning in purple haze,

And evenings of fighting demons in Lucy’s daze.

You remember the days?

When the sleepless nights made us feel,

On top of the world, not under its heel.

You remember the days?

You thought you would never sleep again,

And the night when fitfully by slumber you were slain.

You remember the days ?

When eons were  as far as evening tea,

And all your sorrows drowned by the sea.

You remember the days ?

When time caught up in its cheating chariot,

And in your mind anxiety and defence did riot.

You remember the days ?

When you held all the good that came your way in arms clenched tight,

And at time’s clarion call, let go with all your might.

You remember the days ?

When the walking  in sepia streets of nostalgia,

Only gave you neuralgia.

You remember the day ?

After which you didn’t remember the days ?

Even if you remembered, you couldn’t live them, anyway.

/* RIP Leonard Cohen. I'll spend the rest of my days searching for the secret chord. */

/* There's a cover of a Rob Scallon that I think without words captures the feeling of letting go of nostalgia very well */