It’s a Two by Gonsalves Mpili
They were playing darts, They all hit the bulls eye, My heart was placed over there, The first thrower reached into my arteries, The second thrower gave me a room to breath. When the game was over, I...
View ArticleA Song My Heart Dances To by Gonsalves Mpili
Thought of a genre, Undefined, Who wrote it? I sound a detective to myself, Solving a case with rhetorical questions, Who will sing it? Am I? Who’s going to dance to it’s melodies? Got answers, From a...
View ArticleWrongfully Accused by Gonsalves Mpili
The court hired me/ My role of which I know/ My instincts pushed me into a river/ A river flowing water mixed with salt but tasted like pepper/ Is it guilt that I acted like a spokesperson of a...
View ArticleHopelessness
I DON’T LIKE LIGHTING CANDLES BY MYSELF, not unless I have to. There are twelve burning before me now and I have not yet lit a single one. I usually light two: one for me, and one for wife, but...
View ArticleInterview with Dylan Kinnett
Dylan Kinnett is a nice guy who can blow your mind and drop a catchphrase (and then you will hear Roger Daltrey’s scream “YEAH!”, but that’s apocryphal). He’s a kind of guy you call professional – in...
View ArticleYou, Wandering Stranger…
Stranger, Sunrise, Pondicherry, Oblivion You; Wandering Stranger for Aparna S., whose letter prompted this sequence. I These hieroglyphs! How would they make much sense to you? Like verses were, would...
View ArticleCinema
We landed at YVR and I waited with Greg to get his suitcase and we followed signs to the Skytrain. Two men in uniform were blue dots in the distance of the clean, vast baggage claim area, and they...
View ArticleResidue
Residue A Cento of Rejections :Residue: “Neither Maya ever died nor ever dies the heart, but bodies die and died away. Lust and desire never die”, so has Kabeer sighed away… A frozen mummy...
View ArticleParadise Locked
Paradise Locked; Hafez Shirazi Paradise Locked The stooges and the populace locked down And thereafter the Shah had gained his crown. Harud¹ hasn’t yet reached chinars² and still They would not wait...
View ArticleBare Confession
A Confession Screen Bare Confession My Lord has given me a little bit of this world, a little bit I do not have. The little bit He gives me is sufficient for me and i can’t be thankful enough for it....
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