Poetry

"...What happened to that bold breeze..."

"...speaking of God and the soul and the meaning of life..."

"...I will be at my keyboard late at night..."

"...If I had a weapon like that..."

"...The man over you is giant..."

"...In the scriptorium of mind, I seal our story..."

"...I travelled greater distances..."

"...The only thing without blue paint was a framed flag with a Purple Heart..."

"...Endless nightmares hold my throat ..."

"...You dare not question, lest you get lynched in the hands of your love..."

"Not all politicians are leaders..."

"What if the Internet is an android's dream..."

"...Masters daydream about nice marvelous songs..."

"...I vacuumed away the trace of your tracks..."

"...Why do man's bones remain?..."

"...Destroy this home, not caring about future generations..."

"...thoughts of where this woman and I have been together..."

"...I will sing, not knowing which raga or lullabies..."

"...what can be lovelier than its love?.."

Dr. Chayanika Saikia is a geoscientist by profession working for a national oil company and lives in Noida.

"...uneasy sleep beside the ocean..."

"When the blank screen wins..."

"...maybe because you had no idea who Isadora Duncan was..."

"...miraculous sidesteps needing minute logic..."

"...singing a song stolen yesterday..."

"...delicate orchids stare in contempt..."

"...He says he is going to make a movie..."

"...time reaches through weighty errors and trial..."

J.R. Barner is a writer, teacher, and musician living in Athens, Georgia, USA.

Taken from the poet’s upcoming book titled, "The Birds That Never Learned To Fly: We Have No More Tears", poems touching on such issues as critical energy challenges bedeviling South Africa and Zimbabwe, mounting frustration and disgruntlement of the citizens, and the beauty of nature.