The Indian Gaur- Oil on canvas

When they haven't harmed you or me

and they're so wonderful just to see

Like a black pearl up on the tree

Trouble why; Let the Monkeys be..

Lion Tailed Macaque [Macaca silenus]- Oil on canvas

Hazel green eyes and a growl to scare
she sat there in furnace
In her arms she held with care
her children she so adored.

She fought for them with might,
Around them turned gentle;
until by themselves they could hunt and fight
She kept them in her warm - Cradle

Tigress suckling her cubs - Oil on canvas

Born by birth a ram, bears the Arian a fraying heart large,

racing swift ahead as a daunting bull, is a Taurian's inexorable charge..

Be it an arduous Geminian twin voyage, through unscalable peak and trough,

or as effortless as gait, as his tread, by a Cancerian scuff..

Alike as Leo's boisterous roar, some boast their power and might,

while others savour victory clean, naive as in a Virgin's innocent sight..

And others yet, balance their gains, as does a Libran's just mind,

and others still, the Scorpions, who with stings, their sweet victory find..

Then for the final march, the dominance of the Sagittarian looms high,

that month of her greatest power, queen Capricorn commands without a sigh..

And when voices, an Aquarian, in celestial joy, his victory's vociferous croon,

Pisceans swirl to close an enigma, one that bore stars in bloom..

I wish I was

Back in the days

when age was not 

a hindrance

When people saw

they fell in love

My beautiful face

my charm

Old, I can see well,

no more

they see me differently

My eyes remain the same.

'Nostalgia'- Pencil on paper