Time

Ever moving
Three hands, face
Fidgeting

Lend bit of time
Or allow freeze frame
of your face~ a la Medusa

I seek but a handful of moments
From ongoing life’s battle, to regroup
Spent forces

You are historically a villain
Ever facing acrimony at the ink-
Stained hands of lovers and poets

Let us prove them wrong
Defy laws of nature
Become law unto ourselves

Still self I say
Unto you, so that
I can be still too

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Miscarriage (of justice)

This mother’s day

I weep for my unborn

For the deep longing

Preceding

My giddy

In the face-

Joy

Preceding

Your

Miscarriage

Then

The razor

Sharp plunge

Into an abyss

Of deep depression

The

Awful gaping

Wound

Still active

To this day

after you

Left

 

My Judas body’s

Rejection

Seemed like

Your rejection

Of me,

My baby

and

Our loss

Incalculable

Then began

An endless string

Of sleepless

Nights

when I wept

Rivers

aching

To hold

you in

My bereft arms

 

To rock you

To sleep

Singing

Sweet

Lullabies

Prepared

By me

Early on

But you left

And

then

 

You came

My baby

Peopling

My dreams

Nightly

Calling me “ma”

and when I opened

My arms wide

I found

You gone

punishing me

cruelly

 

The

Pain of your loss

Left a gaping crater

In my side

That will heal

Only when I am

Gone

 

You were the flesh

Of my flesh

and then

You became

ash

my dreams

dust

 

I still grieve

for you

my child

son/daughter

unborn

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Mom

Mother’s Day Gift

Lady Luck

One certain thing about luck is that it will change ~

Lady Luck

Gingerly
Trepidation fraught
Stepped into life boat
For two~

Lady luck oared
Life’s boat
Rocking it constantly
To and fro

Then overturned

Lady luck changed mind
Trepidation fraught
Stepped into life boat
For two ~

Have learnt
To take lady luck’s
Tantrums in stride
With ennui

~

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