Fiction & Poetry

My crescent-shaped lover Appeared breath-taking Playing hide and seek With my senses and my mind The date was promising. Following me everywhere I could not decide If he looked more...

Why be measured Why do scales and peers and milestones Have to define you? I am fulfilled Savouring every experience After giving up The paraphernalia of success. I am free...

You are soft and tender and you bloom round the year but when you are in full bloom clinging to the trunks and branches of the trees you steal my...

A silent monster, Pain walks in. Unmarked, it lingers, feeding Making homes of persons therein. An evil force in our hearts residing.   I see the light, it glows like...

We have not witnessed a house of worship being destroyed. We have just flown a few thousand miles after cutting the wings of the birds in lieu of certain needs....

As I gazed at your light green eyes, You smiled and said, “They could be misleading.”   Tumultuous has been your past. At teens, You had a romance and a...

Things are clear yet hazy. The marks of dry pimples on your face, The zebra glass frames under your trimmed eyebrows, The lines of the smile on your moped lips....

If only the night was morning And the morning was night Would silence exchange Its exasperating breath With the constant din? Would the clock ticking away Wait for everyone To...

In that grimace smeared across your face, Like a Glasgow Smile carved into your cheeks, In your trembling arms, unwilling, To stitch up the raw ends, scared, scarred. I am...

These days you sing At almost every gathering And I follow you shamelessly. I breathlessly drink your voice Its shape, texture and tone With an abandon That sometimes shocks even...