Saturday, January 07, 2006

CHILDREN

They eat
A breakfast
Of innocence
An evasion
Of calamity
The world
Is dying
Around them
Under the sun rays
They speak
To each other
They utter things
Like children do

Monday, January 02, 2006

EXCERPT POEM 7
As we sat
Next to the table
I saw
In your eyes
The story
Of our lives
It read:
Death with
A new beginning
And our future
Coated with tenderness

Sunday, January 01, 2006

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

We entered
The New Year
Watching a movie
My two kids
Laying next to me
I pointed out
The folly
Of cinema
They laughed
At the screen
I smiled with them
They fell asleep
Long before I did
It was the best ever