Category: Poems

  • Notre Dame

    As Notre Dame burns and Paris mourns, I couldn’t sit still. Neither could I watch and let it go nor could I sleep. So, I resorted to paint the beauty on fire and write. For, if there’s one thing that the city has taught us, it is to live in art and literature. For Paris…

  • Forgotten

      Broken lives, meandering smiles Idioms stitched in a haywire. Times fail but the human trails, Clear sky and an open mind. A flower long forgotten.   An emperor of a crown or a troubled flower seller? Hither and thither he shouts, Sometimes crawling in a busy market space, Sometimes borrowing from a dream. Flowers…

  • Inktober Flashback

    Inktober is a special month dedicated to hone your artistic skills. You may draw well or sketch well or doodle well or may just paint well – whatever it is, this the time to improve your skills to push your limits. Started by artist Jake Parker to hone his artistic abilities, this has become a…

  • Whose House Is It?

    Whose house is it? I ask. Are you deserted like the summer afternoon? With memories of children playing And murdered relations. Did you play with the dawn and dusk? Of thousand splendid suns And sordid affairs. Have you plied through edges of history? Alone and forlorn A mistress sang in your courtyard and the rioters…

  • Raat

    Thought of giving a glimpse of my hindi poems. This is a recent poem entitled “Raat” meaning “Night” Jab subah ki zaroorat ho Aur pindare se koi kiran na aye Tab yeh raat kam ati hain. Jab kinare par koi na ho Par bhir milo tak feyli huyi ho, Samjho raat ayi hain. Jab tum…

  • April Came

    April tells everyone’s tale. April is here to make you belong To those numerous she throng. April is your story to tell April came to bring you out of the shell.

  • When Death Came Visiting

    By the river, we witnessed a rotten carcass, A queer being survived by his purpose. 2 yards down the line there were lovers by the moonshine.

  • I am the crippled fingers clinched as a fist to pray. I am the frailing hand that never betray. I am the voice chanting at a grave. I am the tomorrow that never came. I am the moon of a planet. I am the hymn from your clarinet. I am the night in you slept.…

  • when a year seem too long and starts to haunt – think of the falling leaf month, the chilly winter january, the bright leaves of spring. when a month seem too long and the future dreary – think of the floating clouds on a blissful day, the morning cuckoo singing a hymn to thee, the…

  • Once you were the voice of a mother, Valiant proclamation of a lover. Withered walls have forgotten words, In their dwellings hang bloodied swords. A solitary savage woman utters thy name, Few are left to stem them. Language you are a necessity still, For linguistics to decipher buried civilization underneath. Language, an expression of our…