Showing posts with label rat-race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rat-race. Show all posts

Monday, November 19, 2018

parked or abandoned?



just above on a higher elevation
but in front of that Wayne Gretzky Drive
i sit
watching cars, vans and trucks

life
all moving at 80 kilometers
per hour, or even more
over speeding for sure

i also notice a single car
parked, or abandoned
on shoulders of the same road
am i this car doing poetry?     

henry victor     31.07.2002



Monday, September 25, 2017

vanity

 


while parking my car in backyard

i was fretful i scratch not

the painting

on the body



realizing not flooding underneath

the foundation of my house

that had already removed

the entire soil



and my house stood

with all its content on an empty vacuum

making the entire structure

ready to go down



crashing into a huge chasm

filled with stream

taking along with it

my car too



© henry victor     21.02.2003


    

Sunday, September 24, 2017

post a poem




observing the depth, width, and length

i refuse to scuttle like a galloping horse;

hence i choose to carefully scan the world

like a tortoise surveying, slowly, the path



superficiality, i know, refuses to dive deep

to follow the path of the cormorant

prompting the world to survey like a crow

picking crumbs and not dive for pearls



withdrawing from the rat race of this world

as a half-naked hermit with the minimum

i enter into the court, the cave of my heart

occasionally coming out to piss a poem

 


© henry victor     23.11.2003









Sunday, January 26, 2014

you and me


absent in your person and subtle
in your work, for you profit
or loss is immaterial but my heart
hungers as wit wires my soul for gain

as if to carry away to the beyond
to that world of nothing like a monkey
meanly pushing grain, fruit, and nuts
into those pouches, stuffing speedily

before climbing higher to a higher
branch hoping to carefully avoid
in this present height, this world
the loss of funds, faith, and my face

henry victor     06.06.2002