MY PRECIOUS CHILDHOOD ROSE

TO SHEILA with Love...

MY PRECIOUS CHILDHOOD ROSE

Oh how sweet

You are 

My dearest 

Sheila...

So pretty and

Special to me

You are

And always 

Will be ...

My favorite cousin 

Best friend 

Since

I was little...

When you played

With me

I knew glee

Really!

Days of childhood

Spent in your 

Company 

Are happy 

Treasured memories...

I smile at recollection 

Of how you 

Unfailingly

Helped me with

My "bus"  tickets 

Collection...

Oh if those times 

I could rewind 

And relivè

How happy I'd be...

Let it be

Now...

I'll settle

For priceless 

Joyful 

Throwbacks!

So Sheila 

Truly I hope 

You like 

This rhyme...

It comes from 

My heart to yours

My precious 

Childhood rose...!

          FREDERIKA MENEZES 

THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL

THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL 

Little ones 

Gather around 

Make your wishlists 

And send them out...

Wish for toys

Or dolls...

Perhaps even for 

A magical music.

Box...

Write it all 

In a neat scrawl 

That the one 

You address 

Might read exactly

What you want!

Wish for homemade 

Delicacies 

Wish for 

Marzipan sweets...

Maybe you don't 

Believe 

Or maybe, you do

Either way, smile 

Singing along to

The season's

Merry tunes...

Decorate your homes

With tinsels and 

Baubles 

Perhaps some 

Candles of red,

White and green

Hues...

Let them burn 

Setting aglow

In every corner of 

Every room!

And when that 

Very special day's 

Eve comes to

A close 

Make sure you 

Sleep tight ...

When dawn breaks

On the special day 

It's not just 

Your wishes that

Have come true 

That you shall feel..

Your heart will warm

At gorgeous and simple 

Sight

Of a child in a

Manger

He being 

Christ the Lord

At midnight, having 

Been born.

Hè is the 

Greatest gift of

All...!

 

     FREDERIKA MENEZES 

THE SILENT CALL

THE SILENT CALL

From afar

A silent screem

Tugs my heart...

A melancholy melody

Starts to play.

The song of an

Unforgettable 

Friendship...

How deep, how true

The lyrics 

Say

Of the bond between 

Me and you!

The silent scream

Echoes...

It reverberates 

Within my soul...

I see your face 

And know

The unsaid feel

Of lonesomeness

Dwells inside the 

Whole of you...

Sing,I pray 

Of joy.

That no more 

Screams of sorrow 

Might from 

You escape

Leaving me wordless

And in pain...

Let us both 

In a sweet dream

Live

In the now...

And the "one day" 

Tomorrow,

Will find us

In friendships

Endless embrace...!

        FREDERIKA MENEZES 

BEIGE

BEIGE

It's all beige

Nothing alive

Not a thing breathing...

I seek for signs

Of life hues...

None catch my eye

I'm reduced to tears...

It was alive.

Breath was teeming...

What might have 

Resulted in such

Tragic disappearing?

A whispered

Contempt

Unloving songs sung

A promise made

Never kept.

I question whether 

These might be 

Why the hues

Of life

Had left?

Beige, is all

I still see.

Even the colors

Of music do not

Appear differently...

Wake up my world

Wake up life

Beige is naught

What it was 

Made to be like.

Oh, my sight

When shall your 

Desire, you see...?

            FREDERIKA MENEZES 

NAUGHT BUT A PUPPET

NAUGHT BUT A PUPPET

Color me azure

With your words...

They cut through 

My soul...

Oh, about this 

What  would you know?

Fo you, it is 

Something I deserve...

My heart is a 

Broken glass...

Fragments of it

Piece the core

Òf my empty soul.

My mind is a 

Grey canvas

Every memory taken

Away,, erased!

All that is

Left of me

Are limbs and the such...

Easily desposed of

If you will it...

I realize I am 

Naught but a

Puppet

Of your verbally 

Abusive strings...!

     FREDERIKA MENEZES 

HEED AND REACT

HEED AND REACT

I hear it

A fourteen year old

Heart beat...

It  is in tune

With a sad

Melancholy 

Beating for

The sake of

Just being...

I see them

Fourteen year old

Eyes

Look at the surrounding...

They brim with 

Tears

At what is happening!

Untruths being told

And rage been 

Given reign to.

Through mankind's 

Doings 

How the World's 

Cloak of seasons 

Have cruelly

Been rearranging...

The soul of the

Fourteen year old

Heaves...

If only 

Humankind would

Stop

Its greed

In every which way

Its ego it feeds...

The Earth's pain

Would gradually heal

The fourteen year   

Old life

Would laugh and 

Smile

No longer in hurt

Sigh!

If only

Humanity would 

Take heed and 

React

Before fourteen 

Turns to a 

Fossil 

A lost memory 

In the World's 

New breath...!!

        FREDERIKA MENEZES 

THE OYSTER CALLED WORLD L

THE OYSTER CALLED WORLD 

I saw them

At me, smile...

Surely they liked

Me, I thought 

Let me go

Hangout with them a

While...

Decided, I!

As my wheelchair 

I rolled

Fast as can be, filled 

Was I 

With a sense

Of belonging...

As I neared, I 

Saw their smiles

Grow to toothy

Grins and wicked 

Laughs!

Why were they 

Laughing so?

I wanted to know.

Reading curiosity 

On my face

The first said 

That though beautiful 

I was a physical disgrace...

And then turned away!

The second nodded 

Adding that though I 

Spoke, my voice 

Was a garble of words

And perhaps I couldn't 

Even understand or hear...

The second turned 

And left

As well!

A frown creased

My brow

Why were they leaving 

Hadn't they beckoned

To me 

With friendly smiles?

I wondered...

The last remained

Standing a while

Grinning...

Kneeling then spoke

To me

Underlying what already 

Was said

Added a thing or two 

More...

I was apparently 

Beautifully pretty

And intelligently smart

But lack I did

The ability 

To capture the walking 

Heart...

I was being admired 

For my smile 

And pretty face alone!

A sad melancholy 

Stole over me

As I turned to 

The sleepy sun...

A gently wind

Caressed and embraced 

Me.. 

A butterfly kissed 

My lips!

I was the beastly beauty 

Of a pearl

In the oyster called 

World...!

      

               FREDERIKA MENEZES