Poetry

Poetry

Poetry

Reductiveness

It isn’t peachy-keen to love. To be able to laugh with a loved one is essential. If amor is pushing you to abjection, press the brake paddle. Relationship is like a raiment it can be made-to-measure. Sweep of dysphoria is a side effect. The heart is hooey.       […]

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Titanic Sweeping the Ides of the Mountains

Titanic-living breezes blow into the loon-tide ship vessel bringing a vessel of neon blue to the ripping wind to skeletons of Ice   Mountains of molded clay melt before a storm of hail and lightning, ushering in molded glass-bottle canvases of Rembrandt-esque heights                      Primal urges of dust and saddle […]

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Rescue

left abandoned with no choice before I commit my agreement they brutally choked my voice endorsing views crudely opponent; conflict of faiths often transgresses reason listening to heart not head goes saying embroiled with moral wanton all busy in pursuits demeaning; free us from darkness, humanity crying believers forsaken all […]

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Rebellion

I go to the station, rebellion in my mind. My shoes they are a-burnin’, night is in the sky. Ideals are burnin’ brighter but there are the lives of the soft and easy dyin’: it’s all a crime. The fools of tomorrow, the news and the hopes. The music of […]

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A Cup of Love

I  ventured  out lonely Sans  caravan  or  companion Angry  with  world  for  no  reason I  was  in a  mood  for  rebellion, Sunshine  felt  scorching, Moonlight  made  me  sad, Droplets  of  rain  irritated  me Spring  season  was  bad, My  frenzied, foul  mood  took me To  a  desolate,  arid  land As  far  […]

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Meera

‘Come to my pavilion, O my King. I have spread a bed made of delicately selected buds and blossoms, And have arrayed myself in bridal garb From head to toe. I have been Thy slave during many births, Thou art the be-all of my existence’ Sang the princess sitting under […]

Poetry

Delhi 2004

I still remember those days When I used to chase butterflies While my mother used to Boil my favourite sweet potatoes Those days when We used to enjoy selling Piles of old newspapers And all the empty wine bottles To the scrap dealer Whom we used to call a ‘kabadiwala’ […]

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Annihilated

Annihilated am I By your tenderness – Merging myself With you among glow worms Under the stars melting In the rain Like waxen light From candles falling on And illuminating Green leaves and vines On the trellis heavy With grapes of the dark red variety. Annihilated am I By your […]

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Assumption: I Am Not An Atheist

Believe me – I As far as I am concerned There are two types of gods/aliens! One type believes in the swift progress Of the humankind. Other type believes in the slow progress Of the humankind. Trust me that both are really very good! Because, they are GODS Not FOOLS like us […]

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A Candle In the Wind

When my breath is lost And my lights burns out When I am bent by age And mortality weighs me down When I cross the fleeting bridge And glide through strange tracks When it is my time To walk the ways of all men When all this have come to […]