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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 pocketSteely and shiny, a solitary key.With a chuckle and a sigh,Through the corner of your eyeYou murmured, “Ah! My key.”In our last…
Sunday Poem: Farewell My Friend
Farewell my friend
Into the silent night
Forever…
Out of hearing
Out of sightBeyond…
Life leaves us all
A beggar’s broken bowl
But a liberated soul
That takes flight
From dark…
What’s (Not) In A Name?
That was college time. And a fantasy-laden, violence-ridden time it was. Please don’t get me wrong. The violence was not so much out there in the street as it was in the crevices of the…
Sunday Poem: The Immortal Song
When I close my
eyes and think of you
your song echoes
in my ears
though days have
passed by
it is still fresh
in my mind and heart.Unfailingly you sing
everyday
morning and…
Scapegoat: A True Story
If I were able to travel back in time to fix one thing, I would choose that night in Baripada forty years ago. It was on this night that I willingly became a party to an act of vendetta…
Excerpt From Lust -The Yearning
Boredom breeds disdainfor mindless chatter.I seek a diversion,adopt tactical manoeuvres,glide past the maddening soiree.Now, smiling softly,eyes a -twinkle,…
Sunday Poem: Kalahandi
I was covered in a patchwork quilt of a sari inside the confines of my home.The one who dragged me away and made me stand in the middle of the haat, who shoved his thick fingers in the…
Primal Fear
Like previous evenings, that evening too Subrat and his cousin repeated the ritual of one last chat under the electricity pole that stood a few feet into the mouth of the concrete road which…