Goodbye 2014

Time draws nigh

As you fade into the horizon

To bid you goodbye

Board my free flight

Into the uncharted

Abate thy pains

Taper thy joys and gains

Days erased

Lessons embraced

Not any moment availed

I stand to regret

Luxuriating in your numerous chances

That you placed by my entrance

Some gripped

Some skipped

But as I say no regrets

Summer, spring

Winter and Fall

All seasons I have adored

But now its time to lay you to rest

Embrace this new crest

Goodbye 2014

As I welcome 2015

Originally written in 2010
by Nanu

Give me tonight...

Give me tonight my darling

Give me tonight

To swirl into this illusion

To dance in the circle of your arms

Press against your warm skin

Under the cool stirring breeze

Of this night

Give me tonight my darling

Give me tonight

To cede these consuming desires

That torments my sleep

To feed my cravings

That have ravished me for days

Give me tonight my darling

Give me tonight

Do not dwell on the repercussions

Do not go into the What ifs

Just two sinful but sincere souls

Acquiescing to their built up longings

That have flown free from their cages

Give me tonight my darling

Give me tonight

For even if this

what I feel at this moment

Just serves to fulfill

my present desire

And even if you decide

it would be our parting gesture

The memories I create

under these beautiful skies

Could last me forever

So give me tonight my darling

Give me tonight

Give me tonight to unravel my fantasies

As I give you my whole

For even if it were to be my last night

I would pass on happy

Give me tonight

My darling.

Missing Home

I miss the serene tropical skies
usually marked by its unruffled repose
I miss the whispering breeze
that stirs the african nights
I miss the rustle of the village stream
that adds a music to the lone afternoons
I miss the creak of the old Mugumo tree
by my folks abodes
I miss the whistling of the trees leaves
On a hot windy day
I miss being risen by dawn 
by the light airy music of the morning birds
I miss the tingle of the misty droplets 
as we dance under the rainy skies
I miss the trumpheting of the roam elephants
when they came visitingAll a tinder for memory's spark

by Nanu

For thee...

If I were a morning bird my love
Onto thine window would I perch
At the break of every day
Sing thee a wordless melody
pleasing, enriched with an eloquence so soft
Kick-starting thy day mirthfully my love

If I were a lily in thy garden my love
I would unite with the breeze of dawn
Mine hue polish to entice thee
scented with my unique fragrance
As thou trend by my path.....
Dance to the rhythmic swaying of the grass
before thy eyes my love
Install in you a memory of a beautiful moment

If I were a rainbow over thy sky my love
I fain would cast an arch of coloured scales
To wane away the storms berating thine world
with mine refracted tincture
Thy smile and laughter
Is the only appreciation I would seek
my love

For thee my love I wish to be

the brightest star

That shineth beyond the rest in thy universe

eclipsed by no scar

Crowning a sprawless beauty for thine eyes to behold

a mirage for your profound fantasies

For thee my love I wish to be

The moonlight that breaketh in the midnight

Emblazoning thy darkest nights

Aestheticizing it with mine unbridled light,

my love

For thee my love I wish to be

the solitary island in the vast seas

On mine harbor thou can drop your anchor

when the unpredictable volatile waters

Assail thy sail my love

For thee my love, I wish to be

the cool light breezy air

That caresses thy sweaty burning skin

On a harshly hot day

the coolant you can breath-in in this hell's pit

For thee my love, I wish to be

The cloud cover looming over your desert

On thy dry land, I raineth

Quenching thy thirst, germinating the seeds

buried under the cracking grounds

For thee my love

I wish to be these and more.

by Nanu

Nature's Art

This mighty cedar tree
That hovers above my abode
That embellishes my mornings
Impacts a coolness in the hot mid days
And enchants my evenings
with the murmur of its myriad leaves

I reverence
its lofty tops
Strewn out of its stalwart trunk and limbs
The foot thick back
It's irresistible to cuddle
Her beauty entrapping
with such tight perfection
And an encompassing spiritual absorption

In spring
its leaves are springy and alive
It defies the stormy summers
with a meritorious guile
Fall expostulates with it
but it boldly resists the metamorphosis

But in winter
It seems to acquire
an antithetical luster
Despite the lurid chill
The snow tapped leaves and branches
Are an hypnotising pulchritude
Its hard not to venerate it with worshipful eyes
What an ethereal beauty.

by Nanu

Letting Go...

Despondently here I stand
At the cliff's edge
Am I perturbed that am finally here?
Not at all
I knew I was susceptible to emotional disintegration
I knew every shove would steadily cede me
onto these boggy grounds

I ponder for a moment
Should I plummet?
Maybe the saline oceanic waters
pounding on the rocks under
Would show larger remuneration
For my ruptured mettle

Am I paranoid?
Do not get me wrong
I have always envisaged
A more cajoling summit
I often flirt with the illusions
Of a 'happily ever after' with you
But it seems we have aberrated
Like other numerous mortals

The rocks underneath rumble
At the beating of the humongous waves
I quake with nervousness
Am I contemplating retrieving my steps?
Not again!
A glance into our past episodes
Substantiates that we as a pair
Are the worst custodians
Of something so rare

Despite being accorded the chance
To burgeon in its sensory manifestations
We instead ceased, manipulated it
We have but tomfooled with it
And now we frown at the anomaly
Like we conjectured a dissimilar result

Oscillating between consternation and a momentous relieve
I am letting go my darling
If I vacillate a minute longer
Am afraid, I may reel back onto you
Casting us deeper into oblivion
So, am letting go my darling!

Nanu 

My Fantasy...

The woods are sparse
though darkly shaded,
Under the moon-lite skies,
 I creep forward,
As if being beckoned by unknown powers

There you are....
You draw me into your arms
I hurry to comply
And,
as your mouth entraps mine
The slow licking flame of your tongue,
playing a rousing game,
makes me gasp......

Your hands wander up my body,
from my bosom to my breasts,
slipping through my garment
teasing me with feathery light caresses against my tummy,
with purposeful intent
plucking at the strings of my senses
sending a flooding tide of emotions
 through my entire being.....

The strokes of your body,
smooth and languid,
against my own,
make me greedy for more,
I arch against you
Needing more
I stir....

Just to awake,
with a whole caldron of cravings,
To the realization, 
You have invaded another of my nights
Like the unknowing thief of my dreams
You have become...
my fantasy.........

By Nanu

My Hero...

Flying towards me
He gazes at me with telepathic eyes
Shamefaced by my weakeness
I cast my feeble glance into the dark horizons
The blistering winds
Spells the ferocity of the ensuing hurricane
A shiver runs down my spine
I can feel my determination and persistence
Ease from my insides like a punctured tire
I stammer my unwillingness
To rear against the furious storm
I raise a beseeching eye to his
Can't you see, am not bespoken yet
To combat with such.

But unabated
With a calm you can knife-slice
He stoops over me
At my hesitation he shoots me an admonishing glare
Knowing he will be implacable
Reluctantly with a wobbly step, I perch

The paroxysm has attained its full velocity
The hail blinding us as we set off to our ascent
The skies rumble angrily
Despite being savvy of his expertise,
My insides blench

With the moxie of a masterful guardian
You perceptively glide us through the thick hell
You mount high to the epicentre
In the ghastly turbulence
Then,you spread your wings
Floating us higher above the pandemonium
With a nudging smile you prod me to relax
I loosen my grasp and sprawl out
Ushering in a resilient sinew

And once again in self rebuke
I wonder why I doubted your gallantness
Your obstinate refusal to let me give up
Your amiable objurgation
Your compassion and forbearance
Has seen us soar above another storm.

By Nanu

Haunting Err

In the cold of the night I stare
Appraising the calm air
Of the breezy warm weather
which by reservations I bear

I reverie the quitness
Apart from the strange creepiness
A depressing coldness
Damping my heart in its clamminess

Thoughts of you tumble in my mind
In a dizzying gyre they grind
The frosty drill of their rind
leave me wishing your memories to unbind

we had set out, two souls unbridled
Ravaging passions bundled
scourging fires kindled
Entwined spirits entangled

To hike the hill we set our mettle
Oblivious to ensuing battle
Fears sealed in a bottle
By love brimming from our kettle

Then struck the blizzard
Cast by an evil wizard
Veiled in a 'friendly' vizard
Filled stones in our gizzard

Spirits cast into a freak
Going forth seemingly bleak
we abandoned our vie for a peak
The band we inevitably had to break

Hanging on emotional cliffs now we bleed
Longing for a need to heed
But we dishonored our creed
It could never be the same indeed

By Nanu

Time, will you be my rescuer

You play my agile fingers on yours..........alluringly
You hold my gaze..............................sadly
You yet again fail to tell your heart.........candidly
You just want to hold me in your mare.......seductively

I exert my efforts............................but can't deny
I trip over you...............................rather awry
I let you ring me around your cord..............nimbly
I've allowed you get into me.....................pretty badly

I, like a cat permitted your cuddles...........coyly
I sprawl over you............................giving all boldly
I often overstay...................................getting more fondly
I heedlessly give my all......................abundantly

You instead hide under a shell ...............cunningly
You dig your pangs into my heart...........beguilingly
You spring into my entire being............charmingly
yet, You proffer the you ..................sparingly

Time I bid hoping for a miraculous .........way
Time w'd mercifully save me from yours......airplay
Time is now sweeping my blues.............to bay
Time now begs me with it to sway .......away

By Nanu

The Forbidden...

He may not stream with money
But He sure drips of honey
They say I should tread His path warily
I don't care, I just seem to want His dose daily

I may not be a pot-head
Yet this delusion I can't seem to end
Stronger than cocaine
More additive than heroin
Is this rhythm He strings
That has my body swaying to its flow
 My entire being consumed

They said,
He's dangerous and deceptive
Manipulative and elusive
..............they said
Still, in His arms all warnings, away I fling
His magic, ensnaring
His vices, capturing
His tactics, rousing
And they still wonder
why my total vision is in a blurr?

The aroma of His masculine perfume
Lingers in my nostrils all day long
It's the taste of His martini tinged kiss
That tarries on my lips ,
when the day is long gone
......................

He maybe an obnoxious brute

Who on my heart may trod in a manner crude

But of my own volition

This moment, when am still the queen in his hut

Though he is all kind of wrongs

I will enjoy this throne

Nanu

In the beauty of my Dreams

I search for your Smile

In the bright morning light

Of the dawn-breaking sun............

I search for your Touch

In the cool calming summer breezes

Blowing from the clear lake waters......

I search for your Step

In the rhythmic tappings of raindrops

From the constant afternoon storms.....

I search for your Thoughts

In the orange hued horizons

Of the evening setting sun.......

I search for your Kisses

In the soft caressing shine

Of the mid-night moon.........

I find You in the midst of galaxies

Where we lay-out our sky-bed

Entwined in heated passions

In the beauty of My dreams........

by Nanu

My Restless Sparrow

I have watched him
Right from the days
With his broken wings
As he hobbled around
Pitiful begging eyes
I couldn't resist nursing him
Rooting a love so profound

Sunsets to sunrises
Through the short seasons
We have traversed
Slowly he has healed
The smile's grown bigger
The feathers grown brighter
The pain almost gone
On the bright days
Awakens me with a love melody
So mellow and sweet
makes my eyes glisten
Can't deny the moody days too
When broodingly
He cows to a corner
I wish I could tell, what runs through his mind
I wish could touch and lessen it
But even I understand
With every healing wound
With every attempt to fly again
There is that momentous painful setback
Helplessly,
I can only sit and pray
Tomorrow we will see a brighter day

Lately though
I can't help but sense
The growing restlessness
As I watch the frantic flipping of the wings
Flakiness in attention
Altered morning sounds
The discontented look in his eyes
As we dwindle into slumber-land

I can tell
It's just a matter of time
Before the beseech
To be let out
Let's face it
This caged world
Was my self-created
He belongs
In the outer world
The glamour of the woods
With the numerous beautiful butterflies
that can only colour such a world

It aches inside though
To feel his slipping spirit
But I know
Despite loving him
The best way only I knew how
When the impending time draws nigh
I will do what's best for us all
I will perch him on my palm
And with a forehead kiss
Let him fly away
To his familiar world.......

Maybe
One day again
Hopefully soon
He will sit by my window in the early morning
Enchanting my heart again
With his rare beautiful words.

revised @2014

What If...

What if
The reverie of the stolen moment
Could be invoked
What if
The stealthily taken glances
The shy smile
were bequeathed a chance
Within the long and silently blissful moment
Culminating to a well-calculated
Knee-weakening stare
An opportunity to observe with leisure
And casually bestow caresses
Savoring the richness and pausing for appreciation

Then you would be my fortunate seeker
And I, the willing prime target of your attentions
Dancing under the key of your entrancing melody
As you play your harpsichord
Igniting a fire like dry kindling in a roaring blaze
Simply, we will defy all the sanity
Refuse to be cindered
Beneath the weight of our trepidation
Luxuriate in that present moment
An enchanting period as we accomplish our magical feat.


But then, the train halts
We dislodge reluctantly
Hankering for an elongation
our introspection dwelling on the
WHAT IF?

Nanu @2014

Remember me....

I may be the butterfly
That lands on your palm shortly
Before away I fly
In a quest to touch the skies

But
Remember me......

Not as the nymph you so wanted to stay
But as the one that lit your day
Appended fresher colours your way

Remember me,
As the sweet fragrance
Your morning's redolence
A sweet scent on your pillow
When a daybreak billows

Remember me
Not as the bird you so wish to cage
But as the luscious performer on your stage
Even if it's just for this night
We dance under this alluring lights

Remember me
As the lilies that mark your spring
An end to a winter memory they bring
An eye-catching spectacle
You so wish a whole year would circle

Remember me
Not as a restless lover
Whose heart you long to trover
But as the seductive fairy
Who on her limbs allowed you to tarry
Creating memories worth kindling
When the loneliness is killing.

Remember me.....

The Escapist

She runs
Across the vast desert
That has become her life
The coarse sand
Pricking her bare feet

she runs

She runs
Never catching a breath
Dawn to dusk
Season in , season out
A flight to keep her sane
Against too painful a world
she runs

She runs
Against the droughty winds
Of the hot mistless days
She finds no rest
Even in the cooler evening breeze
Nor the gentle calm air of the night
That seemingly would paint a relieve

she runs

She runs
Yet, across her path
Comes the revered saving Angel
That deep down she so would wish
For a momentarily encounter with
Still she runs
Past His clear essence
Too daunted to spare Him a look
Hope blurred by a past
Of several visiting dark angels

she runs

She runs
Not even the galloping horses
Of the persistent knight
With all his armor and shine
Can match up to her swift feet
A heart on a zippy flight
She runs

She runs
In pursuance of an unattainable peace
It's her escapism
Into her own painted universe

where she can find solitude
Against the hurtful multitude

Ungrateful

Flip flip flip,
He flipped a wing
Dragging the other
A broken one across the ground
Hop hop hop
He struggled along the field
A fractured limb
A beaten body
Evidence of a fierce battle
Fought and lost

His eyes blinked
Evident in them
The dying embers
Of a once vibrant spirit
The door to a bleeding heart
Of a once idolized hero
Now a rejected king
Strewn by a sadness
Of a lost hope

Flip flip flip
hop hop hop
Into her warm nest she let him
He gained her sympathy
He appealed to her soul
With no reservations
She nursed him by day
Lullied him to bed by night
Massaged his sore limbs
Scrapped mud out of his feathers

Love and care she poured
Into his empty heart
Hoping it would root
A meaning profound
A purpose to rise
Fight the battle again
She preached reason
She read him encouragement
She fed him faith
His body stengthened
His spirit fortified

In her pride in him
She was oblivious
To the seeds of vengeance
sprouting underneath
Weeds of hatred
Crowding his entire being
She now wishes
She has been
A keen observer
She should have realized
beneath the beeseching eyes
Lay a betraying spirit

When he regained his vigour
When he flew a distance further
And realized his wings could beat air
He now flies past the nest
That hosted and nurtured him
With an obnoxious flock
Sneering at her humble abode
Littering it with his droppings
Torturing the weaker of the skies
Ruling tyrannically
How thankless!!!

Nanu revised @2014

Why I leave

If I stay in your mare a day longer
If I stay am afraid in your arms I'll grow weaker
If I stay these emotions may grow stronger
If I stay we may get lost in this maze deeper

Can't you see the path we pave is destructive
Can't you see the me and you is reductive
Despite our efforts to make this constructive
Am afraid its become non-productive

So, I will leave this moment
I will choose to end the torment
Our tears may come in torrents
But worth the end of these painful scrapping horrents

Then the sweet memories we hold
My not have a chance to be tarnished by hurt untold
Neither grudges and pain will we hold
Making our hearts against love to fold



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The Nightmare

Like a spinning spider's web
Against a declining spirit on a low ebb
A bushel thoughts flood my mind
Some fluffy, fine, easy to find

Yet, they fly away in a second
Before creating a lasting record
Others, for awhile tarry
Actuating sensations I so long to bury

With un-anticipated solid sinew they take board
Ferrying me beyond all antecedented abodes
Drifting me into a nirvanic limbo
Despite your dipping me into a jumble

In a carefree abandon I let float
From one to another in this boat
For a moment in this daydream I luxuriate
As reality becomes but a mere haze

Then slowly almost imperceptibly
The flattering fantasy gets bleary
As if suffised with a sudden gush of sunlight
Its drappery veils seems to catch a fire light

Jolted into reality by flamming walls in my mind
I writhe in agony, one of its kind
The fiery toungues flicking my core in a torment rare
Unable to tear myself from this nightmare.

Miss You Tonight

Standing here by my window
Gazing into the dark of the night
Appraising the warm breezy weather
of the moon-lit sky
The calm of this night
A symbolism of my insides

I revel at the beautifully patterned galaxies
Of the shiny twinkling stars
A smile touches my face
As thoughts of You
Flood my being
Lifting a rare glow inside

I wonder if across the miles
Are you thinking about me
If somehow you had noticed
The rare splendidness of this night
Like so many we had shared
Out in park
Does the thoughts of days we spent together
Nights ravishing each other
Cross your mind?

I wince, at the sudden gripping spasm
A cold clasp on my heart
A longing so profound
of one so far by distance
yet so near to my heart

But despite the hollowness
Feelings brought forth by this loneliness
Tonight I resolve
Not to wallow in the misery of wishes
But to bask at the altar of our memories
That we so carefully crafted
Still freshly imprinted in my mind
I dry my moist eyes
Tack myself under the covers
I let drift into the land of dreams
Where for now,
You and I can touch again!

Nanu revised @2014

Her Emotional Grave

She hides in her cave

In a darkness grave

A lass once brave

The courage she clave

Swept away by an evil wave

She weeps out her hurt

From a tattered heart

Above flies the bats

In this untouchable dark

Then by break of day

As the sun breams its rays

Springs about a chivalrous knight

Clad in his rich armor and might

Yet with a heart meek and bright






He looms around 

And gently zooms in

He halts his flight 

Perches by her sight

He hopes today would be the day 

she accords him just  a glimpse

Look beyond her dark 

To see this light 

He strives to shine into her world

He hopes today is the day

That she would mount his fleet

And with him flee

Into their own newly created heights

But what He will never know is

She quit dreaming

She quit trying

She gave up hoping

Beyond those tears streaming

Is an empty shell ..

Void of feeling

With time

She had sunk and drowned

 Into the emotional grave she dug

Nanu revised @2014

A Musical Affair

\\With a mastered skill
A talent extraordinaire
You strike a chord
On your adored guitar
Soft yet potent
Hypnotizing
Mesmerizing.........
You string a unique rhythm
With your lithe fingers
Creating a sweet euphony
The acoustic effect......
A de-icer of frozen hearts
Night in
Night out
Standing in this corner
Its hard not to float
In this Musical stream
A masterpiece of perfection
Coated with great passion
Tuneful progressions
That accost me
A rare tranquility
A place I've come to treasure
For its simple pleasures
Owning every kiss
That you blow to your fans
At the end of every night
One of the reasons
for my permanent smile

Nanu revised @2014