In Commiseration

In Commiseration

Poetry you suffer
at the hands of pimps
and yet you blush
to the delight of your true loves

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Troubled Sleep

Troubled Sleep

is it when eyes droop red and lactic acid does bleed
in your veins no blood is left that you be a beast?

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Lost Times

Lost Times

On walls I paste, whose colors decline,
‘Wanted’ posters for those lost times!

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Our Belongings

Our Belongings

I keep your belongings,
Our belongings; safe;
For the day we will reconcile

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Earth Woman

Earth Woman

And thus it was that the Earth made light
Shine where it had been forever dark.

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Searching for Seamus

Searching for Seamus

… in a warm July you lay Christened and smiling … While I, a guest in your green court, At a West window sat and…

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The Soul of Blithe

The Soul of Blithe

That night, the veil of clouds; Torn by a streak of lightening Led once to the arrival Of that infant so born, To face the…

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Multiverse

Multiverse

Stretched between wakefulness and oblivion; identity’s rebellion and sleep’s persuasion; I fiddled with the bitter cold star inside me. Dead star with dead dreams at its core….

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Orange

Orange

a few meters away the church bells ring
and earthen lamps light a prayer for a son
daughters don’t get burial in this land

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Reminiscence

Reminiscence

He remembered his father’s face,
Grey eyes, with a cold gaze,
His mother’s proud stance,
As she threw him a final glance.

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Evening in Tagore Park, May 2013: A Nonnet

Evening in Tagore Park, May 2013: A Nonnet

She placed her chair so gently on the ground, so that it doesn’t make the slightest of sound, for he read his poem, in that…

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Hormones

Hormones

Your memories will give me dull heartaches,
but that’s so much better than the shimmering agony

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Silent Night, Holy Night

Silent Night, Holy Night

We fold mistakes like clothes,
keeping them alive for another day.
Errors turn into kettle-fossils.

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L-I-F-E I-S A C-L-I-M-B

L-I-F-E I-S A C-L-I-M-B

Roshni Menon shares a poem that is also an acrostic reflecting on life.

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Remember that Boy

Remember that Boy

Remember his eyes, that lacked in shine
Remember his dreams, that were broken with time.

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