September Songs

Early September Songs celebrate new beginnings welcome with flowers & feasts of sweets for fresh starts and banishment of impediments Early September Songs welcome Ganesh with clay that captures a spirit of wisdom and intelligence Late September Songs herald a Jewish New Year welcome with flowers & feasts of sweets honeyed hopes for the new…

Tarantella

Tarantella I. We waltzed in the December grove — back in California Do you remember? I swung my hand in yours on our brisk jaunt barefoot We plucked the bark and skipped over the red fallen carcasses of Palm trees II. What? The silver flute speaks We should sit snug in a chamber the hollow…

Project Sunrise

Project Sunrise Frame the grey cracked psyche broken holes gutted leaden blackness evolves to pink and orange in semi-darkness yellow disc rises upward and onward Excelsior to a whole golden yoke Light blossoms in radiant petals the sky’s canvas painted in hues of hope why not the mind?

Love’s Point

Love’s Point In a house of love in the morning in the Mourning for those who were loved for those who still are loved not gone even after violence stole the morning Or so they conceived these thieves who rob life – they think it brittle and weak – and strive to abscond as they…

Letter to Notre Dame

I was not born in your country I was not raised speaking your tongue I hardly remember my birthplace decades ago I last stepped on the banks of a city that beats a pulse a rhythm, deep, deep inside my breast I just forget. I stumble and trip through sentences written in your words that…

Rite of Spring

The Glass “I”

This poem, “The Glass ‘I’” is about life’s fragility and the multitude of possibilities that confront us when we are coping with a challenge.  It was written for and appeared in AZ India Times in February. The Glass ‘I’ strong surface reflective & refractive transparent in heat liquid molten shapes life – fluid hammer smashes…

Solstice Song

This poem was written for AZ India Times in honour of my beloved cat, Anna, with whom I had lived longer than anyone else in my life…it’s about loss and renewal. Solstice Song we sang poetry together the sun’s fingers incandescent lapped the air between us branding us with youth’s white kiss memories of melodies…

Musings on Frost

I wrote this poem for AZ India Times inspired by Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” It can apply to displacement, ageing, or changes that result from choosing a new path. Musings on Frost A road to traverse unknowing the path displacement from the familiar curves and circled loops hills descents always on the move across…

A Dreamer’s Progression

I wrote the poem “A Dreamer’s Progression” to appear in AZIndia Times for its August edition. A Dreamer’s Progression we Wanderers     planets in orbit sift through moments     points in time we gypsies     ride caravans of existence our presence     a mere perturbation        of           disorder we Dreamers     designers of a masterpiece reinvent selves that shift     through imagination’s…