Author Archives: Globetrotting Grandpa

“I lost my marbles, I puzzle at your cross words, your games a maze me”

“Holding auditions, brains a packed talent office, of hammy haikus”

I remember the first time I ever truly understood what death was. I was about five. I don’t know what triggered the understanding in me, but I was sitting on the front porch of the house crying. My parents came out on the porch and asked me why I was crying. I said that IContinue reading “Immortal Starlight”

“Precarious girl, dancing on the rim of the world, I watch you with love”

I going through some old Poetry notebooks and I came across a poem I wrote back in college. I just wanted to share it with you. It’s called “The unknown poet and the poet-pretender”. It was kind of a reminder that I was taking myself too seriously and was trying too hard to impress people.Continue reading “Original Poem “The unknown poet and the poet pretender”

“Her eyes are full of ghosts, modern-day Miss Havisham, jilted by her past.”

Grey brown circus squirrel/on a telephone tightrope/walks without a nut’

“Cold Earth behind me/the precipice of rebirth/the nexus of next. ”

“Empty and alone, dead mall of insomnia, vacant shells of gone” “My cruel alarm mock, each tick a beating bass drum, laughing with each boom” My brains on dial-up, my mind keeps pushing “enter”, to download some dreams.