Poems

Goodbye! Never say goodbye, they say. But say it! Probably it will ooze out the nothingness like blood gushing from the wound. Probably it will cavitise the void further And vacuumise the hollowness more. More would it make strong than stronger And more would it lead to the road ahead. So goodbye to the sinking […]

One fine day I will liberate you from the confines of my heart Where the rusty weariness leads to heavy breathing Where the old world values are music to deaf ears Where the complications of this or that weigh upon your free soul Where there is neither black nor white, grey always Where the labyrinth

Walking behind an old couple in a busy street Time surrenders. They seem spheres of memories gliding ahead Indifferent to scurrying others Time hobbles at an undefined pace, smoothened out. The woman in faded saree and glittering anklets Seem recently bought Serene hand holding unmindful of the flitting gaze A few enchantments live through time.

To the misspelt and misunderstood Yet understood. To the unsaid and unheard Yet heard. To the counting of stars on fingers To the insomniac wild imagination To the small little fights To the unprecedented exhilarating joy To creating memories out of everyday nothings To each moment of pain To the overpowering pangs of separation To

Rested and ready to return several highways will be sojourned Drizzling heavily enveloped ambushed Walkers joggers lovers Warning signs wrapped in wit Serpentine clandestine angular descent Mountain sickness…relieved * Silence * Fragrant tea farming Children in school uniforms Specialities and availabilities in multiple languages * Peace * Lying in the backseat looking up the sky

Angelic disposition Emotional opulence Rare beauty of sorts Heart of gold Eyes sagacious whole Unique to the core Bundle of contradictions Words bitter sweet gourd Silence loud and cutting. Walks into my poetry Conquers the subject To you, the carrier of all hues Stop being the muse.

Solving a jigsaw puzzle while the rest sleep A few went missing while i made sense of others The form fits the essence eludes Sleep eludes It is all there has always been i could not see Moments rush nothing changes Time ceases A phone and a charger to live by Eternal love everlasting wait

Nothingness The everydayness Decimation of beliefs The music of falling apart Unending autobiographies The vexed questions The schizophrenic indecisions Crossroads? Till infinitudes.

Situated in a wild desert At the very centre of the universe Is a never never land Where water flows secretively And keeps the sand cool from beneath Where life flourishes below the surface of earth The thirsty traveler finds it amazing As water travels from the plantar upwards And satiates the thirst. The upside

That magic tumbler which converted crushed ice into sparkling ice candies That swift moving wheel which made sugar crystals into fluffy floss Those jubilations which announced power cuts and extended outdoor time Those aspirations to let the head touch the chime Those late evening trips to the stationary shop to buy glue and stars Those