tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-202021802024-03-07T10:53:40.224-08:00Soumya Scribbles...Some Memories are hard to hold on
So I put them on words.Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-57692608526622817852020-09-26T00:50:00.004-07:002020-09-26T00:50:29.412-07:00Sense of an Ending<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The sea was incessant </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For last four days.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rushing, tip-toeing - </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It kept me company,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Uncannily knowing I </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lost</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Someone.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There is a warmth</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In sands </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That soak in sunrise</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And give in to sunset. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One could bury his face</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And find a comforting</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Whisper.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nights,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I would look at the stars</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And reminisce our</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Happy times.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There are hardly any patient listeners</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">than waves.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They keep coming back</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To the same stories.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Weeks pass</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And months wait.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">People do not come back</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But wind does. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It is only then</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Emptiness beams</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And at times, comforts. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the midst of lonesomeness</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One realizes - </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the end, what is love</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If not a little measure of loss. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-65714731816577305692020-09-26T00:50:00.001-07:002020-09-26T00:50:04.423-07:00Ammu<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When I was young,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ammu would cycle through paddy fields,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Come home and tell me stories</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">of farmers who see the Sun off</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and rest. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mustard oil, rice, onion and a green chilly -</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Luxuriously on some days, a potato,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">that is when I will know she was in mood</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To tell stories.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I will walk up to her lap, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Alert so as to hear them all</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and sleep off in the misty smell of her hair oil.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Magic was to find myself in my bed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">tucked in, the morning after. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ammu would ask me to look</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">as big as the birds flying high</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and migrate to places to bring in more stories.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Her eyes, wet and voice at times betraying, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">she would tell me about neighbours</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">who did not flee but fly.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And so did I. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I came back with hundred stories.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ammu would sit on the small stool on our earthly courtyard</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">with a paan in her mouth.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Her eyes will lit up, like the bird</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">who has just found a new country.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Her ears keen on hearing every word. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One night when it rained heavily</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and our muddy courtyard gave away a bit of earth</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and a bit of that earthly smell</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">to a seasonal monsoon,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I finished telling all my tales.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She slept in between, mysteriously smiling </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">through the corner of her lips. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But I knew</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ammu was flying, through</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">green paddy fields,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">above the farmers' heads,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">towards the Sun that was to set,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">higher than the birds ever will. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ammu had stories to tell herself.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-47786331581858831022020-09-26T00:49:00.003-07:002020-09-26T00:49:35.838-07:00The Boats we Sail<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">...We could count the bricks. Twenty-five years after we left our house in Mukteswar - it was still stubborn, still standing and losing parts of itself with each winter. The ferns, banyans - one root at a time, they have re-arranged and re-decored like a dutiful tenant.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Not so long ago, Maa and Ranu used to share the same lamp to pray in that yard. On the Tanpura, our days were marked. Summers were usually quiet. Maa and Baba used to keep their fights for stormy nights. Their sensibility to keep their children happy went through seasonal sacrifices. I never mistook father's hushed shrill voice during thunders and Maa's measured weeping with the harmony of rains.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ranu's paper boats used to be bigger than mine. Mine used to be faster. To her, I was selfish to build them for myself. But I had to win.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our family days were numbered. Baba was poor but no way mean. He poured his heart and pocket into buying us colorful dresses during Puja. My eyes did not mistake the happy tears in my mother's when she used to hold a new saree. Baba used to say, new clothes are not good for his skin. Sometimes we get convinced too easily out of distraction; on other times, it is convenience.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We left the house when I got a job. Ranu got married. I counted 19 letters until she realized my boat had sailed. Baba, Maa stayed with me. By then I won enough for them not to share anything, not even me.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This time when we returned to our village, on Baba's insistence and my annoyance, he wanted to stay the night with the trees. Next morning, through the dense fog, I saw them under the banyan he planted when I was five. Both holding hands, eyes grayed. So dead, that they were smiling, yet so alive.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It took me thirteen days and longer nights.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, it rained.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I built the biggest paper boat I could </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and sailed it safe.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It had enough place for us four</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and the nineteen letters Ranu did not get.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">...</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-29981669793496548882020-09-26T00:49:00.000-07:002020-09-26T00:49:01.051-07:00Johnny's Song<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Johnny was a sinner.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And feared no God.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He had deep eyes and a shadow</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Bigger than him.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Johnny climbed mountains</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And ran through deserts</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Like you and me;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Unlike you and me</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He wrote letters to the sky</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the stars.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Johnny loved more,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Always more,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Deeper than bottomless ocean</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And his lovers’ indifference. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He had a bicycle</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And a tangled headphone</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And a few orchids.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One night</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Johnny went to the sea</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With fifteen pebbles in his pocket</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And one letter in hand.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He did not have a boat.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He was no sailor.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-11307194256633044102020-09-26T00:48:00.005-07:002020-09-26T00:48:34.629-07:00Identity<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This winter has taken a lot from him.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The saffron blanket,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the green chataai.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He has seen Pari go,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And Parveen never came back.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Between Namaaz and chants</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He used to make his own collage.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His friends tell him,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They just don’t play either anymore.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On the mic far away,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And among his whispering friends,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They note down numbers.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One such belongs to him.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On an empty footpath,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With nothing to lose</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And no one to care for,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Jai Singh Hind murmurs his number</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And sleeps cuddling himself.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He sees dreams,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One day he won’t be 1789771,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the footpath will still be his.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-12056744811203086542020-09-26T00:48:00.001-07:002020-09-26T00:48:05.302-07:00Almost There<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Today,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I took a rainbow to reach your door.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I walked the colours,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Equal steps on a wet curvy road.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Travelling through shades,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I came down and knocked.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You answered with a sunrise.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The rains last night </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Looked so fresh, still in your room.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your face, warm and pink,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Welcomed a shivering me.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday, I had dug a tunnel </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To our pasts</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And to a few unopened boxes. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I read the letters we wrote to our previous lovers.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the ones we did not write to each other.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I know </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We will discuss them today</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And there will be clouds.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But it will rain, again.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For it is only a rainbow that will take me back home.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Any monochrome, otherwise,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Is always too dull for you.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Dear,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Come see,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The birds you sent to call me,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have built nests in my room.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They will stay.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-84231220731038418942020-09-26T00:47:00.005-07:002020-09-26T00:47:36.716-07:00Man-deer<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One square meter of floor. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I made some drawings and kept it there. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then came my elder brother and kept his toy pistols.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I claimed that place.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He reclaimed. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our parents came n gave us a lifetime.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One square meter to a Thousand square feet apartment now. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I claimed one corner. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He claimed another. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We were old enough to want less.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That night we slept for seventy years of peace.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-30303818181632047912020-09-26T00:47:00.001-07:002020-09-26T00:47:08.370-07:00Half Peg of Life<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A little sunset, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">white fenced courtyard,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A few jolly good faces </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And memories - mostly bubbles. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We didn't burst them intentionally. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Dinner. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Candles, not lamps, half burned.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As we talk, all at once,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The sea helps with its own hush. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wind blows, so do we. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Little into our melancholy, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Much into life as it is, for us. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Strangers,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">we meet at a table. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We laugh, we drink</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lime with Soda. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Not all nights are for scotch.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(For a friend)</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-10504089001883106282020-09-26T00:46:00.003-07:002020-09-26T00:46:26.183-07:00Atonement<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There is a tree in you.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In me</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In all of us.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Shaal and Rhododendron alike,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The dense Ashwatha,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the mystic Pines.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There is a forest around us.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Seasons come and go;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So do Axes, as men invade.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lone wise Ashwatha</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">talks to the cloud</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And atones for the sins of men.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The axe strikes a final blow</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And two lives fall.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Slow, slow fall.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-71100063933884208412020-09-26T00:46:00.000-07:002020-09-26T00:46:01.131-07:00Counting Waves<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With each wave</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The sea retracts from the shore a little</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As if to say goodbye,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">but not yet. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sands, porous as they are,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Do not know how to hold on.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They try.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They fail. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We all lose someone in life,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The way sands escape fingers,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">sea escapes sands</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and a lover slips away.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There is a corner in every house</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">where windows face a lover's exit. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And at times in life</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You can only sit there</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and keep looking,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">knowing the sea retracts little by little</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and you try to hold on.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Porous, as you are,</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As we all are. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-45523007450564403772020-09-26T00:45:00.002-07:002020-09-26T00:45:22.420-07:00Caravan<div class="imageframe">
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margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You told me you don't like rains in the hills,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And I showed you Kurseong,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With misty pine trees</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and cloud as its cover</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We drank hot tea and watched quiet drizzle</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">while woods whispered in the fireplace,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">burned and died happily. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You had told me deserts are dry</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and we ran one afternoon</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">bare feet,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">towards the Sun</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And heard sands quivering</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">at the sight of a sunset. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A sky full of unknown stars</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and moist eyes</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">you took home that night.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When we went to the seas</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I had said I find it the same,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And on a full moon night we counted</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">hundred different waves in Ashwem</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And far off, some strangers played banjo.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You danced a little.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A few shells I kept in my shirt pocket. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We travelled, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With friends, without,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With strangers,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Bedouins,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">angels and devils</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And we travelled</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; 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margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On a cold night they walked out. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tip-toeing, hush hush -</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The neighbors won't know.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Just enough of food.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Little bit of water</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and each other. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No shoes, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No torch.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hand in hand,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They knew thorns respond to love.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They walked on a full moon light.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Towards hope,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">towards life,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Towards city.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They were crossing the fields they plough.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Farmers, not lovers, but lovers.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Brothers walked on.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With a dream of a romance</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A city eye would not know. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; 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font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;"><span class="rfua0xdk pmk7jnqg pfx3uekm ay7djpcl ema1e40h q45zohi1" data-html2canvas-ignore="true" style="clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; width: 1px;"></span></div></div></div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-38276303617032175822020-09-26T00:43:00.004-07:002020-09-26T00:43:42.814-07:00Hibiscus<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When she comes to sleep late night,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And I, half asleep, smell her presence,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It is that oil that gives her up.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hair by hair</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Like roots of trees entangled,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">the smell comes down,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">drips and trips softly.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It brings memories of forgotten stories</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And tales that I learned</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and unlearned.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It brings stories that my grandmother</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">had woven on winters</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">along with the woolen she never finished.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Her hair</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">brings me the comfort of the sun-clad sweater</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I never wore</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and the toothless smile of my grand mother</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">as I fall deep</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">through an empty ladder</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">where only scent that remains is</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of hibiscus</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and a muddy, earthy courtyard that is no more.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-21354471990235592882020-09-26T00:43:00.001-07:002020-09-26T00:43:14.012-07:00Poet's Fall<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He could not write a poem anymore.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To write one,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One that he could call his own,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His sadness was not enough. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It did not reach the depth of an ocean.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He had failed</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">like a morning sky fails to look gloom</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">or a mountain fails to be shy.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He, who had written a book once</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Burned its pages on a winter night -</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One page, One poem, One part of him at a time.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Finding happiness</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A poet died at night;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Content, Loved but dead.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With a note that had </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">blank lines</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and lines</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And more empty hollow lines.</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-66973643358291359472020-09-26T00:42:00.002-07:002020-09-26T00:42:48.670-07:00PaperBoat<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">who has loved you</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">like you only know.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On starry nights,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Inside the ocean that keeps his secret,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He has written pages </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and made paperboats.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They have crossed unknown ships</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and sleeping fishes.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They have reached the shore</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">where you played.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He had these sad eyes.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A sadness that is part of him,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So much his, that melancholy could be his mascara.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You had it in too.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You were afraid, you were like him.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Life has counted fallen springs.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On winters where fireplace has burned woods,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">you have burned the boats</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One night at a time.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Because you knew</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">his love was like a dawn or a twilight.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So beautiful, so calming</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That it always had the Sun,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">but never quite, never in full.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">...</div></div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-3886608553206574022020-09-26T00:40:00.004-07:002020-09-26T00:40:47.986-07:00Soundlessness<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">There are sounds in our life. And then there are pauses. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Each sunset takes something away from you. Each time, you happily let go. When you are in front of a quiet sea or a dying Sun, there are few choices your mortal self has. It is like a magic trick. You lose yourself to the grandiose and realize you have been tricked. But they are all happy magics. A Sunset takes away your waste, the malignant tiredness from the urban being. On one such occasion I had run towards the Sun. Me and one of my closest friends. We were in the middle of a desert. With dunes all around and the Sun disappearing, we ran, ran towards the furthest dune and when we reached, the orange had started dissolving in the Golden sand. There it was. The sound of a desert, giving its all away to its master as a farewell for the day. The wind, the colours, the whispering sands and only us in the vicinity. We heard the best symphony perhaps. When we were coming back, there was very little to say to each other. We had heard what was beyond what we could describe. It took something away from us. Our noise. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Each lake has its own depth. A big lake surrounded by trees and mountains is essentially a gentle host. It has its own sadness that it keeps hidden, away, deep inside the heart. The calmness is like our mothers. They never tell you anything is wrong, could have been wrong or ever will be. When we took a boat to the middle of one of the greatest lakes in India, we wanted to pause. Just the sound of water in the middle of a lake, all around you, is to be heard to be believed. There is no one near you. Just you and the lake and around you there are wise mountains and assuring trees. Lakes converse with you from different level. Some from the very deep and some, accompanied with winds, are from the surface. The young and old talk to you. Lakes are like families. Moments of quietness made us realize the importance of silence in front of wise hosts. It's a symbiotic relationship that you establish, learn and and never unlearn. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">There are such sounds in our life. And then there are pauses. Rest all are noises that we could have lived without. </div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-82526047746408961612020-09-26T00:40:00.001-07:002020-09-26T00:40:02.385-07:00Paper Lantern<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Dreams float, <br />They glow in their own way<br />And travel above us. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Is there a sadness inside you? <br />One that grows when you don't look for it. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Tonight, <br />Release a paper Lantern to the sky. <br />Let it travel, <br />Through uncountable gazing eyes<br />And a few sighs. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">There is someone <br />Who still counts the stars you missed <br />And keeps a fishnet to catch a falling star. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Lanterns travel<br />Till they know where to die.</div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-6051383181731332262020-09-26T00:39:00.003-07:002020-09-26T00:39:30.772-07:00The Fall<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">There is a light at the end of the tunnel. <br />A big white spot, <br />Where you and I meet<br />And dissolve again. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">There isn't a story you know not, <br />A path not walked. <br />You know the trees that are me<br />And the river that is mine. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Yet you push, <br />Inch by inch, me to a wall - <br />A wall we never built. <br />Tell me love, when I fall, <br />Do your ghosts fall with me? </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">-2017</div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-45474796158603426572020-09-26T00:38:00.003-07:002020-09-26T00:38:46.897-07:00The trip Back<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">One morning I sang to a quiet river<br />On the banks where conscious waves tiptoed in. <br />There were a few friends, <br />Few of them strangers;<br />Silence filled memories for me. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">One night she waited in the station. <br />I couldn't come. <br />There were a few promises made, <br />Fewer kept. <br />She wrote a letter without postal codes. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">This day, <br />When I met myself again, <br />They came - <br />For things left unsaid, <br />For songs left... </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">- 2016</div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-8689458566807049432020-09-26T00:38:00.000-07:002020-09-26T00:38:02.580-07:00Sweet Tentacles<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">A patient spider waits,</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">with its cobwebs of dreams</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">and a few that it borrows from clouds.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Too many have come crawling</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">on dark nights - unaware, unguarded.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">It has kept souvenirs,</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">For the times to prove.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">There have been a few who escaped,</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">A few, it had let go. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">On rainy days, it has seen how men fall</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">on weaker grounds.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">A patient spider waits -</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">with its claws dipped in that sticky ink,</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">we call love.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">- 2016</div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-21783576034739816742020-09-26T00:36:00.006-07:002020-09-26T00:36:59.613-07:00Life, Is<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">How about being a tree someday? </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">One that stands, quietly, </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">And people come to tell stories - </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Of their own. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">How about being a night sky</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">That holds dreams of stars</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Of different kinds; and the ones</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Which fall, unfulfilled, still glowing. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">How about being a random ocean? </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Where waves meet and die, </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">In peace and as a wish</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">To be reborn and rebel, futile it be. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">In darkness if you have ever seen happiness on a boy's face, </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Who was collecting glow worms in a glass jar, </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">You will know, </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">He was only capturing moments. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Those, he will call life, when he grows up. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">(To all my friends who came from around the world and spent time with me this Puja. To those who remain, we will live to tell another day.)</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">- 2016</div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-88029941672685283422020-09-26T00:35:00.002-07:002020-09-26T00:35:18.708-07:00Before We were<div class="imageframe">
</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Before you read my poem tonight, <br />I want a stranger to read it. <br />To tell me what she thinks, <br />That you don't, <br />To touch me on those nerves, <br />That you won't, <br />To tell me a word that hasn't been used, ever.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Before you go to bed, <br />I want a stranger to tell me, <br />How I look when I dream, <br />How she feels when I sleep. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Before I see you tonight, <br />I want to see a stranger <br />And share my stories to see the sparks, <br />That only comes from unknown eyes. </div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">Before you meet me tonight, <br />I want you to tell me, <br />I have been the stranger<br />You have always known.</div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;"><br /></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px;">-2016</div>Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-70000718890399626902016-04-30T07:28:00.004-07:002016-04-30T07:28:32.644-07:00Untitled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You travel -<br />
Through unknown stations,<br />
passing empty paddy fields.<br />
over quiet rivers that rest beneath you.<br />
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You bring a lot of earth along,<br />
And smell of mud, fish scales and trains.<br />
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You whisper and scream,<br />
Put your nails in me,<br />
occasionally call it love.<br />
Other nights, we make peace.<br />
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Strangely at dawn,<br />
When the Sun rises<br />
and you see me sleeping, <br />
I hear your whisper, <br />
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you travel ...<br />
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... Deep inside me. </div>
Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-67688113497248772802015-08-09T08:25:00.000-07:002015-08-09T08:25:40.442-07:00Midnight Bath<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Bricks and mortars aside,<br />Our separate doors<br />And combined windows<br />Apart,<br /><br />Can I talk to you tonight? <br /><br />Can we bring two shovels<br />And dig through our floors,<br /><br />D<br />.I<br />...G<br /><br />deep?<br /><br />Till we find the river<br />We once shared between us. </div>
Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20202180.post-89766585007712371642015-08-09T08:24:00.002-07:002015-08-09T08:24:13.728-07:00Brick by Brick<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We met at a rainpark.<br />
What is it anyway?<br />
We could have met in the middle of a desert,<br />
a fountain, a mountain, <br />
a monument maybe.<br />
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We met and it did not rain that day.<br />
Did it matter?<br />
Seasons passed by us<br />
And beheld the same old me,<br />
but the flavour of you in six.<br />
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Today,<br />
Namelessly as we scratch our names <br />
on the shores,<br />
I realize what I am thankful for.<br />
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When I was building our castle from mediocrity,<br />
You stayed.</div>
Soumyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08032598673375046162noreply@blogger.com0