Mr John Methuselah has been working as a member of the English Faculty, ICFAI National College, Rajahmundry, A.P. He presented papers at various State, National and International seminars.
35. Reason to Sigh !
Amidst the snores
As the lids guard their eyes
By the sable shores, I don't know why
But a poem I desperately
Need to sigh.
O beat my heart! O bleeds my pen
Purple and white, purposeful, dye,
And bid my soul comforted fly
For I feel like pulling my hair
Like the poor lunatic
(pity gave the name)
Who affectionately licked
The twice delicious ice cream
Spread by a tender shoe; melting in dirt.
Break! O heart, bleed! O pen
To quench the fire, that in me burns
I don't know why, but a poem
I desperately need to sigh.
For I'm ashamed to be clothed
As amidst the traffic shores
Laughs a half-naked derelict sore
Unaware, innocently bleeding her month.
So purple and white, purposeful dye
Bleed o my pen! Beat o my heart!
I need to sigh!
Ouh! This speck!?
Under the jeweled sky,
Amidst the dogs and stray pigs
The coaly kid finds his stead;
Neglected dawn neither hated nor fed.
Yes! For these a poem shall sigh; else die!
Now dip my soul, comforted soar
I've found the oar, I need to sigh!
36. Catastrophe Manned !
Midst dreary, dumped , dungeons,
The Elegance exalted,
The Beauty of Ballads,
The Princess of bards,
Wails fanged in soot quite diseased.
Battered and betrayed,
Beside her lay
Her Prince of dreams,
Minced, burned sans grace,
Churning agony bids him curse.
Muddle to marsh; monstrous monsoon,
Sinking deep for life they gasp,
A selfless gasp, thou' grave're in,
Clasped hearts desperately effort to keep afloat,
Their handsome Brutus; love child still.
He mewled and cuddled,
Fondled, she suckled.
Bounteous both honey out flowed,
Lactic breasts pure love they fed
To treat him better Muscles wrestled.
Alas Alas hear-throb choked
In Embraces forked
Biter oh bitter tempest flows
Long scarred countenance
Optimist thou'.
The hands that nursed
He wickedly pinned
Fetter'd his father, cared a pin
Upon his womb
Charged the brute.
The womb that bred
The evil seduced
Lusted blind he bit her breast,
The breast that dried for his vest.
A devil in Oedepus; no more a kid
He raped and raked
The shape that shaped
The lips that kissed
God snipped and nipped
The eyes that graced,
Vice greedily plucked,
Flora and fauna bade
Woe and vanish'd
Locks that Lulled, now matted grey,
A venomous wound blind and dumb,
Feels for her life as He holds her close,
Battered and 'trayed, poor Humanity thou.
Their serum streamed
As tears tide catastrophe,
Lisping 'midst the lashing waves,
Man laughs and cries at his face
Miserable horrid on the waves
Sinking deep for life they gasp
A selfless gasp thou' grave they're in
Just to bless and see him safe
Anchored again in the harbour of life.
