Monday, 26 December 2016

Poem #10: Songs of an island


Sounds, screeches, screams
shouts, songs, speeches
stories, spell-binding superstitions
soulful sojourns
sewing machines and stained glass
sopranos, soliloquies, stages
stars, streets full of sellers
seers, school children and sarees
sex work, security post, spoilers
stretching out to sea
sinking in the skyscrapers
soaking in the sacred sites
stranded in sin
stoned and stinking
spoilt and superficial
splendid, sickening
stop it, spit it out, swallow
sail away, slide back
sleep. subdued. silence.

(17 October 2015)

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