A drop fell from a cloud
A fruit fell from a tree
A tear dropped from your eye
Then I wasn’t me
…
I tasted that tiny drop
Bit off that fallen fruit
Wiped that tear with happiness
Then I became me
Author: Frank Solanki
Making the world a better place one poem at a time.
I Wish You Not To Be Rich
I wish you not to be rich
With bags and buckets of wealth
I wish you happiness which
Instead comes with perfect health
A Cosy Bed
All day long we chase the dollars
To sleep in a cosy bed
And in chasing those lofty dollars
We lose the sleep we always had
Adolescent
Mom, I feel so tiny
When I look at the endless sky
Will I ever grow up?
Watch intimately the birds fly?
Mom, I feel so tiny
Helpless and insignificant
Is there no magic potion
To speed up the adolescents?
Mom, I feel so tiny
A misfit on this giant Earth
Looking at the stars above
Contemplating my righteous worth
Mom, I feel so tiny
Respond to my questions and qualms
Do all the children have to
Follow the lines on their little palms?
“Do not worry,” Mommy said
Her eyes filled with a lot of pain
“Once you happen to grow up
You’d wish to be a child again”
The Aim Of Error
The aim of error is
That we may learn
Never again to be
The same person
Little Paul McAvoy
Little Paul McAvoy
Was a very jocund boy
He wanted to be a writer
Instead became a fighter
There he finds no joy
…
Little Anne Maybelline
Wanted to be a beauty queen
But she never did pursue
What she always wished to do
Merely now a working machine
Hurry Up, 2019
Hurry up, Twenty Nineteen
Don’t you make me wait
Eighteen was terrible
I need to change my fate
I’ve made some resolutions
I’ve drawn a proper list
There would be no changes
There would be no twist
I’d like to quit my drinkin’
Get off the damned cigar
Learn a brand new hobby
Buy my favourite car
I wanna write a book
Learn to play the guitar
Meet Trump, Modi, Merkel
The Queen and the Tsar
So come on Twenty Nineteen
Come on show your face
I hope that you’d be better
Eighteen was a disgrace
I’d like to be a bit smarter
A bit wiser than before
But not before I see you
Walk in through that door
Repetition
Some people like to repeat themselves
Repeat themselves
Repeat themselves
Some people like to repeat themselves
But I am not one of them
…
They speak the same words all the time
All the time
All the time
They speak the same words all the time
But I am not one of them
…
They say what’s said again and again
Again and again
Again and again
They say what’s said again and again
But I am not one of them
…
I don’t like to repeat myself
Repeat myself
Repeat myself
I don’t like to repeat myself
But you just don’t understand
On December 26th
I badly wanted a Christmas gift
On December 26th, December 26th
I badly wanted a Christmas gift
But I got nothing at all
…
Santa must have lost his way
Lost his way, lost his way
Santa must have lost his way
He didn’t even call
…
All my friends they got a gift
They got a gift, they got a gift
All my friends they got a gift
From Jane to Steve and Paul
…
I am just a lonely boy
With no toy, with no toy
I am just a lonely boy
See my tears they fall
…
Daddy gave a gift yesterday
Yesterday, yesterday
Mommy gifted me yesterday
Is Christmas not today?
How Far Off Is Christmas?
How far off is Christmas?
Has it come and missed us?
I’ve been a good boy all year
When will Santa finally appear?
I hope he brings all that I asked for
Without missing anything like before
I might stay up all night
Just so that I don’t miss his sight
And when the man I finally see
Coming down our chimney
In a corner I will wait
To see if he’s got my rollerskates
When he’s laid all the gifts silently
Around the decorated christmas tree
I will sneak inside his sleigh
Off I’ll go the north way
To visit his toy-making factory
And I’ll go on a shopping spree
To pick the gifts that I
Haven’t learned to spell at five
Frank Solanki 