SONG CHOSEN: Tamil song ‘ Mutha mazhai ingu kotti theeradho’ from the movie Thug Life. I have translated the line. *** Can the raining kisses satiate the desires and cease? How untamed my verses seem entwined with impassioned pleas, The star studded sky sculpts the...

  Mama! The fireworks don’t delight me anymore, How long should we play games of pretend? Scary it seems, the world outside the door. I feel frequent vibration across the floor, You ask me to stay put behind windows curtained, Mama! The fireworks don’t delight me...

  Serene skies seem blissfully blue I doodle dreams from my makeshift tent, With all borders blurred, hands hold Bridging boundaries I hear hearts hum Moments merge, love lingers… But sirens sound, we shake, shuffle, Tremble, teeter, muster, migrate. *** POETRY...

‘HELPING HANDS, HEARTFELT HUGS’– Huge headlines harp, Heartless heroes honoured, Herds hover… Humanity hammered hindsight, Humility hurled, Hark! Hailed hypocrites  haunt  *** Poetry Style : Tautogram All the words in the poem should begin with the same...

Walking up the mountains, Sifting through the deserts, Imprinting footprints along the river, Trampling the fallen leaves of forests dense, These weary boots of mine had seen the seasons change, I’d walked with them treading paths many, Searching for a place that...