Rhymes for a Mood & 27 Watt

selected poems from two collections self-published in 2006-7

Cherry

Reflection on Verse 517, Guru Vachaka Kovai

how true you are to say - 'Desire only Silence for in Silence there is nothing to desire' how much time did I waste before knowing this? listen to the surface of the pond

Reports of a Disturbance in the Heart

a loose tongue spinning rhymes reports of a disturbance in the heart the culprits leave images like loose scales holding rude positions in empty spaces they betray nothing of their weight

Turiya

let the eye close without and open within knowing nothing I visit sleep and become happy gunned down by day my idleness stands watching as I slip into the perfume of a rose -

Not Knowing Where I Was (I Knew Where I Was)

not knowing where I was I suddenly knew where I was (with you) the moon in my heart fell up to my throat there were columns of light a bus 19 later I realised – Hyde Park Corner!