King a very Ordinary Frame of an Ordinary man An Image Frozen in Time If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”― Albert Einstein https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/fairy-tales An ordinary frame of a very ordinary man, bending forward with a smile, to […]
Africa’s Children-From Ether they came Life’s antidotes come in funny packages. Africa’s children.Life’s antidotes come in funny packages and when it comes from children from far off land you write a story. My now, rather confined life is annoyingly yet beautifully juxtaposed to myever-on- trot partner. The surround-quite engulfed us. My life-essential in health and […]
In Murshidabad, bewitched I stationed my gaze at the edifice How the Stillness was palpable It was an unforgettable visit to Murshidabad some winters ago which threw surprises we were not ready for…. Bewitched, I stationed my gaze at the edifice. The stillness was palpable.Trees nodded gently to the passing gust, as the narrow stream […]
By the dam when the sun disappears and moon’s so dull You fear the lull Did you try and build a dam through air ?! You befriend the sky and fear the lull,When the sun disappear and moon’s so dull,The wedge-wood turning cerulean,Stars in trapeze herculean,The fear of surviving the night,All consuming shadows in white, Instead, […]
Cafe be written At this quite hours Let Writer’s Cafe be openLet the coffee be writtenThe ting-tang of the stirring spoon be the music we listenat this quiet hours‘Till the first ray of the sun touches the pile of creased napkins soiled by laughter and unspokenwords….. “There was something quite beautiful about finding such a profound connection with […]
Autumn Your Sweet fragrance conspire Slippers lose memory by the Doorway The tongue carries the taste of rainYou, the scent of deathDousing the fire, your sweetfragrance conspireCloud-kitchen churns in-uteroFrost-o-bedYour sweet fragrance conspire Slippers lose memory by the doorway,Bare foot a prick of dew,Living in the pages of a favouritebook,Sleeves soaked in pining anew, The slow […]
Dreams scatter as tiny particles of reality Hiraeth’s bubbles deflate… The bubble deflates,Dreams scatter as tiny particles of realitySlowly evaporating into its insignificant frame, You are slipping by slowly —The days, the hours, theMoments,The silent combustion ofMemories,Ashes burning the osteoblasts,Thoughts hiding between sheetsof cloud albums,Forgotten petals of the smog — I saw your soul, I came to […]
Mediocrity wriggle through Misty mind flushed in mediocrity needlessly inks Words wriggle through swallowed thoughts —where life runs on the highwaywalks by quaint roadsLoiters around bushy by-lanes,Bylines of fate are the diminishedStatutory Warnings on end-pageSurrogate Adverts Like switched off fairy lightsmediocrity hangs today It takes a sudden turn when — They, in their Dior Tuxedos andPuma runners, sprint toChoose Gucci over wild […]
In the Bubble of Proliferating Dream I walk smothered by star dust I walk in and out of my dream todayProliferating like reality,Smothered by star dustFeet smudged in mushy mudby the corner where lilies bloom…. The shrub-shroud no hindranceFor light to penetrate the locus,A little place so pristine,Where dreams emanate fragranceOf the real, honeyed whiff […]
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