Would you be there?
A smile is all I got
a smile I held close
all the way, through blistered
paths.
I would get there, I knew
walking or crawling, I would
reach you.
The rains wouldn’t hold
me, nor the sun..
If you are …

I wrote your name
on the sand, just for
fun. I spelled it,
each sound from my
core, rolled out and
reverberated in the air.
I tasted your name
I kissed it, each word
and let it out, like doves
to reach you, in air.
Like …

I tell him that I love,
hold him till the stars fade at night
serving hot steaming coffee with a smile,
breakfast with promises of tonight.
I smile at the mirror, for I find a smile
in there.
and yet, when …

siesta, on a happy terrace
in a love licked sultry noon
when i happened  to see
him, flying kites, a few terraces away.
shadows flew over my eyes
my pupils dilated to catch his
the kite soared at heights, purple
and blue in sweet delights.
i could …

This is my neighbor’s story, a story that was fascinating and even now astonishing to watch. A story of how two humans came together for the first time in their years of living together. Its been 5 yrs since we …

I wish to see the
phoenix in flight
the color of its feathers
and the glint in its eyes
and when it burns itself into
ashes
I want to see it come alive.
I wish to trade my soul
to that bird, who …

a lonesome night
on a lonely earth
spent gazing the stars
shooing the dreams
fighting the demons
hoping for love
waiting for a smile.
lonesome nights have
i spent, in your arms
as if i alone dwell on this
land
as if your breath are my …

Crunchy popcorns
simmering butter
strewn with pepper
melting and popping inside
the mouth.
watching a match
with popcorn flavored breaths
breathless at times
candies and sweet syrups
running down the palm
days of sugary pulpy dreams
of breathless popcorn matches
those that are now behind,
well lived & well gone
now …

Love is this
Love is that
Love is all
blah blah blah
You can’t hold it
neither seize it
nor release it
never own it
I can’t tell you
what would love be?
when you come to it
when the heart tugs
perhaps that’s it
when we cry …

I’m drugged
dazed and frustrated
I curled up in a corner
I dreamt hazy sultry dreams
of bodies dead and alive
swaying and laying
I saw money, making love
to me, getting me all.
I saw embellishments of
my desires and the cold
kept far …

Traffic
crowds,
roads
trams
I ran amidst all
anger   lust
frustration      Love?
and I reached
a pavement
stood still             for an eternity
and then
I jumped
in front
of an expensive        bright BMW
called life                    no reply
hands outstretched
felt the smoothness
God drove away               expensively leering
I gazed on till
eyes closed
I lay …

I killed him
I knew it was a ‘him’
when I felt life curl up
in my insides.
I hated him, a tiny
speck of nuisance.
I carried my burden
facing the tomorrows
of adjustments.
I remembered bored
passions, clinging in
miseries of middle class plights.
A night …

I came a long way
to see you
I came a whole lot of way
to just see you
I walked those miles
inside my heart, all along
till I found you on this bend
whence life would change I knew
I came …

I waved and smiled
I said goodbye
but my mind is still
embedded in my rear view mirror
“objects in the mirror are closer than
they appear”
Yet, you were far away.
I went back
myriads of times
searched your smiles
for secret ‘don’t go’s
I found no …

If happiness had a colour
What would it be?
Would it be the darkness of the
Sky? Or the green of the waving
Trees?
The azure of the waves lapping lovingly
Or the yellow of the ripened mango
I’m yearning to take …

Is He here?
Or is it She?
Tell me where to look
whom to call
I walked the deserts in my heart
my cracked feet has scarred the sands
of my life. I have faced thunderstorms
in vain.
I have searched till my eyes …

The first time I saw Ledger on screen, I was awe-struck. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN by Ang Lee is a complex movie about homosexual relationship. Ennis played by Ledger seemed all the more complicated. Why I noticed …

2010 !!! Its good to have a new year…as if God is in one of His good moods and given us an another chance to undo and even re-do. Since we have all dived in with …

A recent visit to the local fish market left me astounded.The market was thick with many varieties of fish and crustaceans. They were an eye full. Now what astounded me was the presence of endangered fishes like hammerhead …

Eyes, serpentine
that slowly glides inside
to steal your soul and
before You know it, there
is this void, dark and cold
inside your chest.
And , You run about
the weight of the void
stooping Your dull shoulders
blood seeping from Your heart
into …