Weekend weather report (Tobago)
Posted: June 29, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: poem Tobago sunshine weather weekends 4 CommentsCaribbean cock crow morning.
Bananaquits
split the never silent night
cheeping and chattering
as the deepening dawn sets in.
Alongside the sea
chocolate milkshake silvered
sighing onto the beach
palm trees have shed coconut husks
which lurk, frustratingly beyond surf’s reach.
Trumpet treed, mimosad too,
a beady eyed chicken struts past,
dogs and humming birds
have oh! so very much to do.
There’s a pink flushed cloud ahead of me
a Barbie dolled sky to cheer
yesterday’s rain away
and, monsoon free,
the weekend is left to us
loud, and clear.
ON CATS AND SEPARATION
Posted: June 16, 2012 Filed under: Poem | Tags: Cats, Poem 1 CommentTwo cats
captured in mock bronze
neither cheap
nor tawdry
“an approximation of the Real McCoy”
you once stated.
Of the divine Rosie and Malika
who smelled of hot fur,
straw from the cattery,
vile food
and, occasionally,
grass and vomit!
Their vitality,
their lithe writhings
were
oh
so
real.
This statue, this mocking bronze
cast
amongst myriad memories
of you
smells, now, of nothing.
Not even the desolation
I once managed to attribute to it.