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Sunday Poem: Love In The Lines Of The Gun
I have not come to this city of perfumes
to pluck flowers for you.
My eyes are lost in the sky of the birds
that you released from your cage.
The tongue that used to howl its love for…
Sunday Poem: Keep Quiet
Does a child
born in the battlefield
fear the mere clanging of swords?
Does a burning wood
fear a mere bushfire?
Now please shut up ma.
Although beaten down,
you son still has the…
Sunday Poem: Silent Voice At The End Of Night
Now I have
Encroached upon
The area of my
Rights, interests.
I have tightly held
The happiness
In my open
That I once rejected.
My heart fill
With emotion
Straight and plain…
Om Shanti, Panditji
The stage is echoingly silent
The lights are all off today
Empty chairs & undrawn curtains
No more to see you dance today...
Drunken Eyes
Your eyes had poured flirtingly
Heart…
Sunday Poem: Forget Me Not
A year!
From last new year to this Christmas,
Five encounters and a few messages,
Some cryptic, taciturn and some effervescent.
It was our first
When we met once…
Sunday Poem: Goodbye
Smitten by living
Drowned in experience
I was heedless
Till a moment fraught
Taught me
the lesson of mortality
Not morbid but prescient.
I finally opened
The Bhagvad Gita of…
Sunday Poem: Lake Tahoe
Was it paradise? Heaven on earth?
Bewildered by the magnificence of eternity
counted on His creation of beauty
mesmerized by lake's peaceful enormity
embedded serenity in my life's…
Sunday Poem: Glowworm
Glowworms flash
In the remote spider webs
Gathering an unknown emotion
Waiting to be acknowledged.
Quivering across the lanes
They rush to the road
Full of upheavals
Rain…
Sunday Poem: Fire
Eternal Flame
Symbol of Hope,
Fearless cosmic force
Dancing in the wind
With increasing intensity
Blazing in fury untold,
Crackling,…
Sunday Poem: A Key
Plopped out of your pocket
Steely and shiny, a solitary key.
With a chuckle and a sigh,
Through the corner of your eye
You murmured, “Ah! My key.”
In our last…