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Adversity
ADVERSITY
This one’s for Audrey (and many another).
I hit the road
It hit me back
We paused a mo
Now here we go
Learning Pattern (A Four By Six)
LEARNING PATTERN
The challenge: not to flinch
Or having flinched return
To that from which one flinched
And emerge emboldened
Or Or
OR OR
Relations are fraught
Far too wrapped up in ego
Celibacy rules
Or so monks and nuns tell us
Or maybe they’re just cowards
Courage
COURAGE
The courage
To still confront
Ageing, any mirror
With neither shame
Nor puling denial
The courage
Of (s)he always
The true warrior
The one ever
Disdaining weaponry
For Even Poets Pass On (A Four By Six)
FOR EVEN POETS PASS ON
Time to bid you fare well.
Should I say “Rest in peace”?
No, for that’s not your style.
“Wrestle on and create!”
Admission
ADMISSION
Since Sunday school been mild and meek
Maladroit at playing at love’s hide and seek
From the touch line watched my heart beat
While my coach advised me, “Be discreet”
Then of a sudden an uninvited thought
That you might be the one I sought
No longer lost in love I can’t care less
And rest at last content to go to press
Self-publishing
SELF-PUBLISHING
Looks like it’s not sufficient to be clever
You can still end up in the lost-and-found
You can split the scene or stand your ground
It’s been that way since forever
No rock solid link to Spirit whatsoever
None of our conjectures are too sound
You hit multilingual traps, rebound
Somersault screaming, “Never!”
Yet how to survive in a dull world while sharp
And not end up in the lost-and-found still
Whether giving in or refusing to budge?
An open verdict, an absentee judge
Endlessly replaying “The World According To Garp”
You can read on the scoreboard the result: Nil Nil
