Category: poetry
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The Lure Of Cacophony
What’s here is now invisible I search for life on internet. In this room and in this house, In this city I find nothing. For meaning I go to internet. To cacophonous thoughts that are More cacophonous than my mind I gravitate ― To find an end to loneliness, I turn towards the internet. To…
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Nourished, Even By His Absence
I love missing you. It’s such a tasty, wholesome experience. Like eating a banana. Missing you is juicy with a devious prick… Like biting into a slice of pineapple. I love missing you — like eating mangoes when they aren’t there. Sucking on cherished moments, each subtle feeling. At times, missing you is tasteless with a slight…
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Does It Happen This Way?
When I feel happy, does that happiness caress you as a gentle breeze? When I feel content, does it ease your breathing? When I feel grateful, do your lips curl, ever so slightly, into a gentle smile? When I feel elated, do you sense a twinkle in your eye? When I feel happy, do you…
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one word poem
एक शब्द की कविता तुम. एक शब्द में पृथ्वी सारी तुम एक शब्द में सृष्टि सारी तुम क्या रिश्ता होगा जब तुम ही हो यह वाणी तेरी – तुम a one word poem you. in one word entire earth you in one word the universe you relationship? not possible when there’s only one- you this…
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Happy Independence Day!
I share with you 4 lines I came across in Jaishankar Prasad’s Kaamaayani. (Jaishankar Prasad was an eminent Hindi poet and Kaamaayani is a celebrated mahakaavya of Hindi literature). These are the 4 lines, translated by yours truly – We were not gods, neither are they – All cogs in the wheel of change. Yes,…
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a gentle pain, a giant joy
a gentle pain a giant joy that you are far you’re in my heart you are a stranger yet are mine a gentle pain a giant joy that brings the night and dawns the day makes seasons roll cause we are one yet far apart a giant joy a juicy pain
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Message In A Tattered Envelope
the body is the medium the body is battered. the mind is the medium taut, threadbare… but not shattered. in this tattered envelope this gentle message comes to you – love is natural. nothing need be done to inculcate love. no rituals, no practices, nothing need be done to inculcate love. remove everything. what remains?…
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On The Wine Trail
Everything need not be written Need not be documented Sure you’re on a super journey You’d like to share your travelogue Yet everything need not be clicked. Capture in still reception Then let the stillness season Like wine that is fermented The master of the house will open The bottle as he pleases What care…
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one day (soon)
one day i want to tell you of the joy and the power of being a woman one day i want to ask you a question that i have. do not answer in haste ponder well and feel well then let me know a question about being a man no, do not just answer yet…
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They Speak In Silence
Spring speaks using words (also known as flowers) Winter speaks in silence The day speaks using words (also known as birds) The night speaks in silence I honor my night, when it comes, (also known as sadness) I turn inward, to silence I honor my night, when it comes, every month (also known as periods)…