there I go...
one more rain
behind a glass window
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Amogha and I
In one most beautiful moment
I looked at the butterfly..
her monotonous yellow
broken by the hue of the blue sky
In one most beautiful moment
I saw that small leaf swayed by the wind
her nascent green
bordered by the leaf that turned purple
just yesterday
In one most beautiful moment
I saw my child
its tender pink..
bordered in my wrinkled brown
I looked at the butterfly..
her monotonous yellow
broken by the hue of the blue sky
In one most beautiful moment
I saw that small leaf swayed by the wind
her nascent green
bordered by the leaf that turned purple
just yesterday
In one most beautiful moment
I saw my child
its tender pink..
bordered in my wrinkled brown
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Canvas
May I paint you?
In hues of splendid yellows
Handsome oranges
and
a breeze of lavender?
May I gently run
the brush I call my destiny
through pastel greens
and then draw
streams of purity
to flow through you? that
the gloom these eyes hold
through living a human life
may one day
breathe the sweet smell
of wildflowers i drew on you
I drew life!
in a riot of colours
and left
the bottle of black paint over it
to hold it against the winds....
In hues of splendid yellows
Handsome oranges
and
a breeze of lavender?
May I gently run
the brush I call my destiny
through pastel greens
and then draw
streams of purity
to flow through you? that
the gloom these eyes hold
through living a human life
may one day
breathe the sweet smell
of wildflowers i drew on you
I drew life!
in a riot of colours
and left
the bottle of black paint over it
to hold it against the winds....
Saturday, November 23, 2013
motherhood
Defined.
Responsibility
Attention
Selflessness
Expectation
Joy.
Overrated-
rebirth
selflessness
I am
a mother.
overrated,
manipulative,
million agendas,
and the successful victim
Responsibility
Attention
Selflessness
Expectation
Joy.
Overrated-
rebirth
selflessness
I am
a mother.
overrated,
manipulative,
million agendas,
and the successful victim
Thursday, November 21, 2013
random
The remnants of a thought linger on like dust after a truck passed by.
I assimilate these as I turn away
I assimilate these as I turn away
Friday, August 30, 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013
arrivals
crowded platforms
unknown travellers
one wonders if the journey is the same.
all that is left of my privacy
is the mind.
Its that train:
the one that should have been here
an hour? a day? a week? or years back?
i watch time
move solemnly, unfazed,
likewise my thoughts
of that arrival.
jostled, pushed:
struggling for the tissue
in that bag:
lost among the million
people? hopes?
i wonder
is this it?
the last parcel in the mail van?
unknown travellers
one wonders if the journey is the same.
all that is left of my privacy
is the mind.
Its that train:
the one that should have been here
an hour? a day? a week? or years back?
i watch time
move solemnly, unfazed,
likewise my thoughts
of that arrival.
jostled, pushed:
struggling for the tissue
in that bag:
lost among the million
people? hopes?
i wonder
is this it?
the last parcel in the mail van?
first love
Its raining
gently falling
from leaves
on to window panes
Streaks of lightning
illuminate
an otherwise inconspicuous million
I can feel them
when they noisily
touch a starved earth
and she suckles
like an infant
its mother's bosom
I hear the clock
and my voice
endlessly conversing
with a distant you
wish you were here
beside me
listening
to these noisy raindrops
the occasional thunder
distant traffic
the egotistic clock
gently falling
from leaves
on to window panes
Streaks of lightning
illuminate
an otherwise inconspicuous million
I can feel them
when they noisily
touch a starved earth
and she suckles
like an infant
its mother's bosom
I hear the clock
and my voice
endlessly conversing
with a distant you
wish you were here
beside me
listening
to these noisy raindrops
the occasional thunder
distant traffic
the egotistic clock
disjoint
just me
and the wild flowers
never enjoyed jagjit as much
as this moment mentions.
the soundless wind
the leaves have another story to tell
laughter nearby
a cry elsewhere
the bitch and her hungry litter
outside this boundary
yet within
with multiple conversations around
which one do I keep pace with
and the wild flowers
never enjoyed jagjit as much
as this moment mentions.
the soundless wind
the leaves have another story to tell
laughter nearby
a cry elsewhere
the bitch and her hungry litter
outside this boundary
yet within
with multiple conversations around
which one do I keep pace with
interwoven
in silence
somewhere
a leaf turned
towards the sun
yearning to stretch
waiting to shed the tenderness
and the red for her green coat
ready to bear the morning dew
somewhere
a leaf turned
towards the sun
yearning to stretch
waiting to shed the tenderness
and the red for her green coat
ready to bear the morning dew
glass bangles
he waits outside
standing by their side
with the shop long shut
his ware lay lined
green, red, blue
gold stripes interspersed
still
standing by their side
with the shop long shut
his ware lay lined
green, red, blue
gold stripes interspersed
still
stranded between thoughts
a little here
a something there
I land on my feet
and much before that
I am gone
through a well planned design
am stopped midway
by an intrusion
sometimes a finger
touches the sun and burns
sometimes the toe nail scrapes the ground
and it tickles.
what itself thrived only a second
took more from me to endure
stranded between thoughts
like a trapeze
the world i see
holds on to what it saw
easy as it was indeed
the sky and the earth
and the space in the middle
are mine
to throw thoughts at
and wriggle through them:
a something there
I land on my feet
and much before that
I am gone
through a well planned design
am stopped midway
by an intrusion
sometimes a finger
touches the sun and burns
sometimes the toe nail scrapes the ground
and it tickles.
what itself thrived only a second
took more from me to endure
stranded between thoughts
like a trapeze
the world i see
holds on to what it saw
easy as it was indeed
the sky and the earth
and the space in the middle
are mine
to throw thoughts at
and wriggle through them:
afterthought
as an after thought
the last bud
on a dying plant
as an after thought
the last cloud
before the parched soil
cracks
as an after thought
the dead soul creeps
through
a hole in the rusted gates to heaven
the last bud
on a dying plant
as an after thought
the last cloud
before the parched soil
cracks
as an after thought
the dead soul creeps
through
a hole in the rusted gates to heaven
sculpture
i thought i was complete
till the master positioned me
in the middle of life
with a mass of clay beside me
one by one
she came, then he
another he, another she
place a little clay
here and there
i cringed at my changing shape
till admirers walked by at my new shape
say shapes if i may..
till the master positioned me
in the middle of life
with a mass of clay beside me
one by one
she came, then he
another he, another she
place a little clay
here and there
i cringed at my changing shape
till admirers walked by at my new shape
say shapes if i may..
beside
you are beautiful;
i am, she said, he said
insanely: she said
nothing. waiting to turn real
it did not
old wolves, green eyes
trees meeting the dark skies
drawing lines on the moon
i am ugly, one green eye peered from behind the trunk
i can kill, another rustle in the woods
i am beautiful, she said
you are
he said the wolves live in my jungle too
i am, she said, he said
insanely: she said
nothing. waiting to turn real
it did not
old wolves, green eyes
trees meeting the dark skies
drawing lines on the moon
i am ugly, one green eye peered from behind the trunk
i can kill, another rustle in the woods
i am beautiful, she said
you are
he said the wolves live in my jungle too
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