cherished moment

whistling wistfully by woodland wakes

as frail old memories forsake me

a rain-full sky in the horizon nigh

with hope drenched ardor slake me

darkness drape the desolate woods

as silence shadows songbirds’ trill

the moonlit night – a splendid sight

that delightful moment time stood still 

Speech Monsters

Whimsical, rhetorical jabber

Inarticulate and annoying

Give me some soap

Need to cleanse the air

That’s thick with rant

A walk in the park

Will do some good

I thought, till the park

Was found full with

Noiseless ogres

That vomit words and

Keep the quiet away

A nap in the room?

That’s full too with

Incense that are made

Out of news anchors’

Vocal chords and reeks

Of venom from

Politicians’ white shirts

Look down, oh divinity

And let us not so

Mortal souls know

Where to run next time

The rhetoric resumes…