Nuga

(A strange insomnia word)

The word nuga is offered to me
in exchange for sleep
and I rise to write it down,
only to be left mesmerized
by the cursor’s blink.
The word door being closed
I wait like a beggar, meek
foolish and goose-pimpled,
shivering,
asked out to play, but last to be picked
and still wondering,
Nuga?

© Graham Sherwood 2/2013

Pontification

(A papa resigns)

Aged opulence,
global recognition,
such crippling, aching tiredness of the soul,
life’s daily cilicio punctures every wavering prayer,
faith the burden of the addled mind
unfaithful to the faithful

© Graham Sherwood 02/2013