After gathering in absolute chaos A thousand thoughts take flight And tether in ways quite intriguing… A word links with other levitating words and slowly grows into a sentence, A sentence in succession mutates into verses, Artfully aligning in ways quite...
Perhaps rain is nature’s desperate attempt to heal the world, Her loud outcry to express her pent up angst… The relentless acts that humans inflict, Wound her time and again by their physical acts, How pained she is by the inhuman deeds of man against man, With...
‘Long hair is beautiful and a blessing ,’ people nonchalantly say, ‘My hair’ to others seems, an object of display! I wash, dry, oil, comb and let it sway, Glad that unseen remain a few errant greys, Braid it religiously taming every stray, Braving the hot,...
MY DEAR WIFE ( a fictional piece) As her lips curves on either sides of the cheeks, the dimples that bloom with a garden of flowers turn me meek, Her long braided hair when let loose to dance with the breeze, causes my heart to hopelessly flutter and at times...
There’s no dearth to the resources I provide, But the rules of nature you fail to abide, Will your greed ever subside? My hopes in you have long died. Your thirst for power increases day by day, Clouds pregnant with ego looms grey, The strong ones have turned...
Lost I seem, during my sunset years, Abandoned by my near and dears, My home isn’t the home it used to be, The warmth has faded into winters icy. The framed pictures on the mantelpiece, Seem like cherished moments from fictional movies, People whom I once called...
A lady gives ‘how - to’s!’ for a perfect glam, ‘Drink hot water for a healthy gut,’ says uncle Sam, ‘Manifest your soul mate through chants,’ urges a tarot reader, ‘Lift weights after forty,’ advises a gym trainer, ‘Follow my tips for cheap flight tickets,’...
No bricks, no walls, to bind me within, Nothing luxurious , no furnishings, Where seasons don’t matter, nor rain or shine, Where things stay put and seem exactly fine, A place where memories are pocketed in rooms aplenty, A place that spans across wide...
Under the Tuscan sky we both met, ‘Twas serendipity at play, The universe conspired and it turned to love at first sight, Enamoured in each other’s presence, we were moonstruck, The laws of attraction mapped our gilded journey, Tethering to the stars how we...
Sometimes when deafening silence fills the existing void Angels and demons –the yin and yang, whisper voices several, Though the origin is unknown, the ensuing inferno is vicious when demons rule, And the masks worn by such humans flashing ...
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...
Skies seemed serrated in hues grey, Deafening silence signals doomsday, Muted bodies ‘midst ashes and debris, Their ashen faces harboring dreams plenty, Alas! Some think war is for peace… ~ While I wonder how grey could be the colour of peace! Missiles are...
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...
As night unfolds Drawing the curtains of the day, Echoes of the mortal world slowly diffuse And I retire to revisit the tarnished paper Held within the confines of my mind… Etching the same dream that I weave every night I sculpt your face in wild imageries,...
Sequined songs of love I try to forget, Erasing every memory of you, Alas! If only our eyes had ne’er met, No seeds would be sown for a storm to brew. ‘Twas a fatal attraction, time’d stood still, We merged into a framed constellation, I loved the idea of you...