Poems & sketches – Capriciously Quotidian

Run

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:00:59 +0000

Run for time
Run for a dime
Run to be seen
Run for esteem
Run for a name
Run from shame
Run to be glad
Run when mad
Run when its spring
Run from a sting
Run to take care
Run from despair
Run from pretense
Run for sense
Run to attain
Run to refrain
Run from a fall
Run to stay tall
Run to unchain
Run for a gain
Run to all draws
Run from flaws
Run to appease
Run for peace
Run for a life
Run to strive
Run to atone
Run to be alone
So run we must
But at our behest
Or just breathe
Ease up and rest.

Moments

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:59:34 +0000

You come,
You live,
You flutter,
You fly.
And then, I,
Often times
Let you go by.

So, here I am,
Expressing,
Loving,
Giving,
in the now,
Letting reason
Take a bow.

Be gentle
oh time,
Before, hurt,
Embarrassment,
Regret, follow
Deeming acts
childlike, hollow.

When you’ve passed,
Then, make me
Brave,
Strong,
And sane,
To stand judgement
Before any name.

Lone Tigress

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:39:21 +0000

Let me not be a picture someone else paints
Let me not be a fool uttering words in vain
Holding the hands of time
Minding the hearts pace
Let me not fall for apparitions
And their unyielding embrace

Beauty in RED

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:33:44 +0000

Why do all the birds today look so pink?
Why does everyone around want to sing?
Why is the weather so lovely and warm?
Oh they say I have my rose tinted glasses on!

Some fill their voids in glitter and shine
Some delusional say everything’s mine
Look at them living in dusk while its dawn
And I’m the one with rose tinted glasses on?

See, all we need is a strong heart to handle red
Where passion and intensity are fearlessly fed
To build a beautiful world or write lovely songs
Why’d anyone need to have rose tinted glasses on!

So let’s sing with a smile and a pumping heart
Watch all the pinks before the reds, for a start
And work through the rains or hail or a storm
That doesn’t mean we have rose tinted glasses on!

Warring ideals

admin — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:02:22 +0000

He put an end to me
and my tussle with resolve
I laid bare chested
my body finally rested

Who killed whom?
Did he kill me?
did I finish him?
Instead did our ideals win?

The dictators

admin — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:00:22 +0000

My word was it
More than the bullet
No one spoke
Our pride I awoke!

My nation struggled
And for her I
Even if it led
Millions to die

That was mein kampf
What was yours?
What significant is a fight?
If not for wars..

Hail as you will
But your glory’s broke
My words did not
But my silence spoke

I adorned your look
With satire and pun
People weeped laughing
And gave away your gun

I sit here not smug
But tired, content and frail
‘My struggles’ worked
Unlike your sorry tale.

Ship of Theseus

admin — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:58:25 +0000

Like the ship of Theseus
Parts old and broken
Emotions strong devious
Inner spirits un-awoken

Hoping to feel whole
and thinking I was not
I ran behind goals
That weren’t worth a shot

But when time takes away
it takes away for good
A future yet to parlay
from a past, as it should

So even if I chose
to not rock my ship
time would wrap its noose
Making it easy to rip

A foe without intent
steadily creeping on
it added cracks indents
without sounding alarm

So I myself dismantled
pieces, parts and all
sat amid the rubble
prepping a major haul

Then this gluing spirit
handed vision n dreams
Dripping sweat with it
bolting fixing extremes

Some do die in pain
some simply carry on
some resign some feign
some fight head on

& I came together whole
quite not like as before
And while I broke myself
I hadn’t killed my core

Now calm collected
anchored rooted but free
I sat unaffected
across my enemy

Time ebbs what’s young
turns it into old
But I’m not done yet
my tales still untold

Rise

admin — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:56:48 +0000

Rise, rise – go find a cloud

Glide above, break your shroud.

Let the sun see what’s beneath

Let it watch these tiny feet.

Smile I will, at its glare

Let it scorch our skin so fair.

I’ve held u firm, do not fear

This will is strong, rise-up my dear.

Do not swivel, these winds I know

Make us strong, it’s not our foe.

Brave & beautiful, oh yes, are we!

the world’s watching to see us free.

Resting on a Lion

admin — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:55:47 +0000

Oh yes that’s how

She chooses to rest

Her back against

a lion’s chest

It’s her might

giving a fight

and her will

strong and still

The more you scare

the stronger she gets

the more you coax

the fiercer she gets

So, while she sleeps

and she rests

Walk away quiet

Coz u never know, lest.

Old & Young

admin — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:54:41 +0000

Young and bold
Old and light
One looked up
The other, a humbling sight.
One gazed up
The other to the ground
One was eager
The other, peace abound.

“My ego’s bold
And yours is not
Time’s on my side,
In case you forgot.
My restless heart
And its fluttering beat
I am scared i’d lose time
& its fatal retreat”

“Yes my dear
rest on me
Prop your back
Look up in glee.
Time isn’t the matter
It is but you,
observe yourself
& you’ll get your due.
Fathom my words
And not its age,
‘how’ & ‘why’ matter
At this tender stage”

Her ego softened
she felt at ease
She rested more
Ungripped her knees.
He smiled and sighed
And he sensed her rest
Prepping her for life
And its rasping test.