Fall View from the Opera House
Floor to ceiling wall
A massive glass
window,
Not reflective though
To see out and to be seen
A citadel from within.
Modern Architectural
marvel
With light and shadow
warmth of wood
And cold steel blending
into showcase
For a showplace :
Ballerina gracefully
floats,
Aria spreads its wings.
Etrog's sun bird on an
artful elevation
Watching in benevolent
metallic silence,
People mingle in
intermission chatter
Glasses happily clink.
In vain across the busy
street
Urban concrete jungle
Attempts to block
autumn sun
But the warm ray
cuts a swath through,
Blessing
maple trees standing erect.
Golden blazing arms
Shivering with cold
caress
Of gusty autumn
wind,
Stripping, a ritual dance
of the season
Slowly unfolding.
Satyriasis:
Flying across the ocean
Shedding
his cloak
In the
dim corridor
He rises
once again.
The man
with satyriasis.
No flower
in the vase
Empty
champagne glass
Hall
filled with putrid lust.
With
flaring nostril and fire
in the
breath and charcoal eyes
He
devoured and consumed
In the
well practiced tune.
Never an
adagio
Just
presto to crescendo
To reach his moon.
Burning Green:
Rows of tall green and under brush
silently scream,
burning to brown
then to ashes.
Canopy thins, balding
planet
gaping patches in
green earth’s skin
not just in Amazon;
Smoke signal rising to
heaven
In desperation for help
in vain.
Neglect and profit
guiding
perpetual willful sin
Habitat destroyed
species extinct
Homeless natives huddle
in despair.
Across all parts of the
globe
Alaska California to
Indonesia
forest burns.
all around fire.
Modern day Nero
Building his own pyre.
No ball:
Ball to balls,
hard to soft
hurled with gusto
as the ineffective
box guard
hides in shame,
in near shock
doubling up in pain
macho man
endures in agony
as thousand
amused eyes
some showing
sympathy foresee
a new ball
slowly emerging
out of erratic
attack
should have been a no
ball.
Joe Root was hit by a cricket ball at the net And also while at the crease.
Jamal Uddin - Octagenerian retired physician in Toronto. Love classical music both Indian and western, cricket and soccer. Self published poetry books Portal and its translated Bengali version "Kalantare Bashabas" and participant in two anthologies.
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