Poet Sabah

(1) Dawn – reluctant: The big orange ball of fire was playing hide-and-seek; (2) Overcast skies: The big orange ball of fire was still playing hide-and-seek; (3) Dusk – reluctant: The big orange ball of fire was playing hide-and-seek – again; (4) Sunny skies: The big orange ball of fire wasn’t playing hide-and-seek; (5) Draped […]

(1) Our balcony was a rectangular one – squared-oval shape, There were no chairs, and we had to do with borrowed ones from inside, from here and there, The somewhat narrow lane below our first-floor balcony had once upon a time familiar people treading on it, Now strangers pass by smiling and spitting on it; […]

(1) The somewhat warm Spring evening had slipped into the bosom of the moonlit night, Our silvery bodies – now illuminated by the silvery moon, The sky too came down to kiss us, That night the moon was shy; (2) As our hug meandered into an embrace, I could see her from the eyes of […]

(1) Humankind had wasted so much of their time trying to be someone else, Trying to build revolutionary roads, Ended up with ghost-ridden crossroads, Twisted twigs and branches to their advantage, Didn’t laugh over coffee, Didn’t make it frothy either, Instead, made the Earth filthy; (2) Hardly noticed the world changing around them, Skyline changing, […]

(1) A virus, they say, has suddenly gone viral, Spiralling its way from the poles to the equator, The human globe stands punctured, Humans and stray dogs stranded in vacuum cities; (2) Each endless week now has just one day, Each month will most likely be made up of thirty familiar days, It’s said that […]