Sonnet

We have memorable days in our life - here's one of mine;
playing golf, a precursor to something even...

Du Fu conjured magic beyond people like you and I,
'For long now I've been tainted by poetry and...

I wish you'd come back, just walk thro' the door as you used to,
in your best colour, the ones I've...

I don't want to be buried or burned - do you?
scattered in the sea, floating forever in ocean blue...

The early bird catches the worm, smarten up brother,
you don't want to be caught out by another '...

Fivve letters and counting for an Ethiopian duck,
must be something like Adaba, no - it's not, f...

I met a girl,
Through a narrow lane.
Waiting for her,
Were mysteries and travels;...

It was a restaurant, chicken rice and char siu pork,
more than heaven, there was not much need to...

What's your direction? Maybe you'd like to go south,
in a blue kayak along the estuary to the river...

I'll leave you my guitar, someone already took my drum,
perhaps you can bring my poetry book when...

You don't believe in God, just think we all go to nothing,
it's about time you bucked up and...

Is smoking a sin? White lies, things that give you high,
masturbation, Ranganathan, shopping can't...

I was chilling in the bar the other day as you do,
before I travelled to The Far East out in the...

You know what it's like, expectations, from everywhere,
I expect the sun to shine from here and over...

In eyes of others, we may seem apart..
Yet deep within, we share a common heart.

Our voices...

Oh to be in England now that Spring is near,
Mathew Arnold spoke about a bird haunted lawn dear,...

'Tyger, tyger, burning bright, what fearful symmetry,'
and with your lithe power and wonderful...