Hurried steps on the serpentine roadWith one hand, I am holding the flickering lampGiven to me by my motherAnd with the other, I am clutchingThe baby close to my heart. The moon is nowhere to be seen..The road is barely visible in the pitch darkness….Jackals howl, crickets scream….My face sprinkled with droplets of rainFalling from…
Category: Poems
Without your knowledge
Without your knowledgeWithout you even thinking about it,I have been following you for decades! You are no more the exquisite beautyYou used to be !Age and exhaustion has also takenTheir toll on me. In order to bring an endTo this game of trailing one anotherI had come to this spot several times. From where either…
My Hanging Red-Green Dress
My house was by the seaI love the sea.It taught me how to nurture dreamsInside the heart; And the constant roar of the wavesFill my heart with agony. Even now you can clearly seeMy ruddy reflectionOn the balcony of the multi-storeyedPalatial house;And the spectacular view of the seaWith ships passing by up and down. Either…
Fire
The charcoal black form ofA living individualMade me recoil in horror That time I could not imagineHow the same fire can burn so beautifullyAnd give such a briliant lustre I only know that the burning SunGives life to the worldProduces food for the plants I did not knowIt is the burning away of the nightThat…