Thursday, October 30, 2008

Sequencing

Of mornings filled with daydreams
Of nights of living in self-stories
Of lazy afternoons spent making wishes

Of shaking fists and tearful wrath
Of cussing Gods for abandonment
Of experimenting with the dark side

Of rueful confessions
Of misguided adventures
Of learnt lessons in humility
And dependence in freedom

Of walking a mile in heating sun
Of learning about Keynes and worms
Of tolerant theories of freedom and
Of prancing Minerva’s owl in daylight
Of logic and philosophy and psychology
Of the eternal grammar of politics
And the timeless origins of economy

Of seeking loves and purposes
Of finding both in unseen nooks

Of words and punctuations
Of integrity of thought
And clarity of reflection

Of satisfaction and hope
Of freedom in hearty bindings

...

A whine on the wings of a boast

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Hair cut

Sloshed black tendrils
As floats on curvy blue
Felt up with chemical caresses
To emerge wiry and spiky
A pixie from a fresh sea dip
Covered in blue canvas

Gales of hot air
Chemicals on fire
Curling waves
And silken weaves

Pocket artillery
Snapping steel jaws
Sharp nips of angles
Unedified cuts
Chopped waves
Invisible blood

Friday, October 24, 2008

Yellow

Red orange flames dance on
Behind a fall curtain of ice

Shy sprinkled bits
Detonation by callousness

Dancing dragonflies
On corpses of fluttering joy
Splayed rotten skin casks
Dried stars of crimson veins

Cold hand of distance
Fostering, festering

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Fuse

Pinpricks of light
A burn to quench
Dark's insatiable hunger

Echoes of sizzling burns
Splinters of a dying star
In the quiet gasps of the night

Above an imploding world
Shooting stars scar a dark sky
Even as a wish strikes through

Fragments of a time
In the passage of thoughts

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Occurs

The sinker twisting innards
Floating strips of eardrum
Dull drops of raw bloodlets
Tainting caramel slivers of skin

Coasting moist air -
Condensed steam or drying tears

Lost scorpion in the swamp

Friday, October 17, 2008

White disarray

Little town brown patch
Little boys white dreams
Red tweaks over the 22
Elegant wrist swathes

Past dreams
Old orders

Instant coffee
Instant richness
Instant reputation

Ode to stagnant system
And kicks to young hope

New disorder commences
As an olde game flounders

A mirror to our times

Strayed

Faceless
Nameless
In the grey alley
Behind crusty facades
Wet with twilight rain

Where They reign;
A spattering of feverish lurkers

Escape
or
Exile

That red -
A blood trail
or
Temple ashes

In my mind or
On the street

Subverted truth
Decorated truth
Plain white lies
In self service

Mind's release of endorphins
Quenching conjuring lips

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Flu of Indifference

A crispy morning
The air is stale
A rejuvenating bath
Water's stagnant taste
A delicious breakfast
Tasteless texture of food

Unstoppable thoughts
Expressionless freedom

Exciting times all-around
No sight of freedom
Of rights and expression
Of thoughts and reforms

No world for sane men to inhabit
None at all for women and babies
No space for thinkers of change

Time for no sane Gods
And insane religiosity
With just Mammon
And the dogs of war
At the altar of worship

We live; we pass the days
We inhabit this time
- Our only inheritance

What will be our legacy?
…Chaos and jellyspine?

We dread the futures
But too timid to step
Forward in time, in thoughts

Such spit and wildfires
Rattling deep-rooted foundations
And hard-built civilisations

The seeker wallows in cold depths
Craving for clarity of thought & action
Seminally afraid of uncomfortable truths

Where's the Third Eye?

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Ifs

Roads uneven, unwalked
Words unspoke, unthought
Smiles unfast, untimely
Glances unmet, unheld

Losses unlost unknown.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Crack

The infinitesimal
Subtle tint of crossed helix
Slow motion drop of red
Rising nano waves of certitude
Ripples in the proximal
Anti-clockwise beats of heart
Thud-thud of active veins
Single muscle inflates
A half-moon forms on the face

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Dot

Off my rocker
In the imagery of shackles
How absurd
The venom of innocence

Tight fists
Clenched lips
Clipped tones

A litany of damns
Anger at the cosmos
At blurry lines of destiny
That rule so mercilessly

Karmic punishment
For riles of a life past

The dues are paid
Unwrinkle my brow
No more ransom
With each exhaled breath

Damn precognition
Hold of invisible threads

The waiting dots, darkens my soul
Countdown to a wretched deliverance

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Is What?

Ricochets
or
Repellants

Empathy
or
Mimicry

Virtual Pats
or
Behind-the-back sniggers

Approval
or
Advantage

Complimentary
or
Exploitation

Self-satisfaction
or
Air-brushed ego

Such are the ways of the world
Coded language of self-survival

No place for the naive
And the easily swayed

Ostriches, all
With heads deep
In the sand of illusions

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

30 Years

A comma in the straight line
A semi-colon before going on

One more waiting room
In yet another waystation

Cheap soapsuds for my weary back
Bitter coffee for tired tastebuds
A couldnt-care-less uneven bed

Long breath of reflection
Of gratitudes & regrets
Of scars collected enroute
Of soothing hushes in ears

To ruminate and reflect; only
For an exhaled breath of time

I will linger on the flowers
See blessings in the petals
Troubles will be flicked off
Like lint off my worn jacket

The journey wears me down
The path entices and mocks

Pick up the bags and pick-me-up
Duty calls - a life to be lived

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Coiled

Vice clench of uncertainty
Late bite of the tongue
Constant flickering air
Underneath the windpipe

Thought-clouds in the head
Disturbia behind wakeful eyes
Ghost pain on nerve points

Crash of external vibes
Against dense hide of survival

Twitching feet
Tapping fingers
Shifty eyes
Licking lips

Invisible flinches
Mementos gathered over time

Monday, October 06, 2008

Tracks

Green, wet and golden Chertala
Red warmth in deep Barbil mines
Dussera fun in heating Rourkela

Of missed buses in Bhubaneshwar
And unravelling vulnerability
New promises in sweaty Cuttack
Revered sanctuary of Ravenshaw
Gifting new lives and forever friends

Push and pull - a new perspective
Anchors laid down - visions clear

Onwards to challenging Dhenkanal
Afternoon mirages in Raipur
And cricket live in Nagpur
Sought and found in Bhopal

New chapters - Evernew questions
Precious life lessons learnt

Uproot to root in Bangalore
Both, pitstop and temple
In pursuit of happyness
Siren call of love and want
Answered, watered and fostered

Tales of lands traversed; never seen
Straight lines of dusty train rides
Voyages of languages and worlds

Forever seeking
Finally living...

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Hide

Swaying waters
Tempestuous seas
Black roiling thunder
Silver slivers of light
Slicing neatly through

A child of yesterday
Lost in a foreign world

Betrayed by the commonplace
Blinding maze of self-destruction
Abounding loop of ignorance
A mute world sonorous with hate
Eyes everywhere, yet blind to all

A sporadic reality
Refuge in crafted words
World's built behind eyelids
Of influences beyond years

Safe passage of savage
Yet wondrous planets
Mating strength and humility
Bonds of care and compassion

I seek to dive into valourous seas
Swim with mermaids and water sprites
Flighty and full of tales

Fly across unseen lands
Astride a majestic charger
Chasing the rising sun

Friday, October 03, 2008

My Mother

Cast in life's wild waters
Lone girl amongst strangers
Sat alone with worry lines
In a sterilised white house
As all heavens poured down

Fickle lamp lights
Overlapping darkness
Reverberating thunders

An impatient insider
Waters come calling
No knocks of warning

Call it foresight
Blueprint of a life
Future foreseen
In swirling window panes
And infant muddy puddles

Worried whitecoats
Flurrying footsteps
Still silent strong
Legacy longingly coveted
Yet only half-bequeathed
To red squawking heir
Lone girl amidst 30 males

Dawn of awakening promises
Of strength and ambitions
Anchor to the lone sailor
Ploughing on coconut sands
Bordering long distant shores