Where silence speaks,words intrigue infinity and thoughts travel light years to invade the mind cells wherein simmers a volcano of ideas and images juggling to burst forth into an intricate filigree of patterns and designs, complex in its simplicity and bizarre in its mundane echoes.
Friday, 14 April 2023
Nothing Yet Everything
Thursday, 6 April 2023
A Tanka
Friday, 31 March 2023
Face to Face
My life is an open book
Known to all
The telltale tales
The turbulent troubles
The constricting constrains
The depleting weaknesses
The fleeting revelries
The prolonged aloneness
But have anyone ever read
My silences ?
Beneath a carpet of dying ashes
The still smouldering cinders ?
The untimely
Unreasonably
Merciless, shameless
Boundlessly
Hurtling all barriers
Sudden
Crashing, tumbling
Torrents of downpour ?
The one and only
Rooted witness
Yet silently spectating
My ruinous collapse
On drenched cheeks
The scorched streaks
My bosom foe
The pricking, embellishing angst
No......don't waste thy mercy
I am not yet legit
Let only be there the sobbing
Throbbing
Unseasonal
Dousing deluge
मेरी ज़िन्दगी खुली किताब है
सब जानते हैं
मेरी कहानियां
मेरी परेशानियां
मेरी मजबूरियां
मेरी कमज़ोरियाँ
मेरी क्षणभंगुर खुशियां
मेरी चिरंतन तन्हाइयाँ
पर क्या कोई पढ़ पाया
मेरी खामोशियाँ ?
ठंडी रांखों के कालीन के नीचे दबी
धधकती चिंगारियां ?
बेवक़्त ही सही
बेवजह ही सही
बेरहम , बेशर्म सी
हर सीमा को लांघती
हर बाँध को तोड़ती
अकस्मात्
उमड़ती पानियाँ ?
वही तो है इकलौती
चश्मदीद गवाह
एक मात्र पर चुप्पी साधे
घूरती मेरी बरबादियाँ
गीले गालों पर सूखे
दागों की निशानियां
वही तो है मेरी जिगरी दुश्मन
मेरी खलिश मेरी रानाइयाँ
करो न मुझपे मेहरबानियां
न हूँ मैं इस क़ाबिल
सिर्फ सिसकने दो
सुलगने दो
यह बेमौसम की
बरसानियाँ
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Friday, 24 March 2023
The Patchwork Quilt
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Encore
Friday, 10 March 2023
O Ye Wildflowers....Will You Let Me Be Like You
Friday, 10 February 2023
Recipe Of Love
Day breaks
With a steaming cuppa tea
No sweet please...only dairy whitener
No milk either
Sweetness does not go with
Crackling of dreams
Mid morning
A cup of coffee with milk again no sugar
Sometimes it's too strong
I tell him to make it a frothy one
With just a sprinkle of coffee powder
On the creamy layer of froth
Afternoon
Twice a week a bowl of starchy corn soup
"You should not be drinking this", friend says
Still I do
Though it does not go with the
The warmth of a dry curry with lentils
And bread (we call it roti) and a bowl of boiled rice
Destarched ....snowy white
Thereafter
My craving for something sweet is satiated
By my room mate
He offers me churme ki laddu
Made by his ma-in-law
With lots of love and care
Divinely delicious dissolving inside the mouth
Like a star de-moulding in a black hole
Mid afternoon
Again a cup of coffee
To make me realize am still alive
This time ti's rather drab
The maker is tired by the rut
Evening
Again a cuppa tea just like morning
Dinner
Simple -- left overs of the day
That's the way it is
From breaking till remaking of dreams
To forget during the gruels of the day
We feed ourselves the recipes of love
Not exotic nor exorbitant nor exhilarating
Had it been so we would not have doodled an irresistible garnish
Or perhaps taken our last breath
Turning and tossing in oblivion
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