Close your eyes and write a poem,
Because sights are beautiful
But god,
Look at the sounds.
Close your eyes and write a poem
Poems
क्या कोई कविता…
उस दिन जब दुनिया ने मिलकर
प्रेम-पर्व मनाया था ,
नफ़रत ने भी पुलवामा पर
मायाजाल फैलाया था।
चाहे उन कायरों को संपूर्ण देश की
बद्दुआ लग जाएगी,
पर क्या कोई कविता उस माँ का
आँचल फिर भर पाएगी ?
Drug
I take a drug
That could put
Methamphetamine to shame
That’s more addictive than morphine
That can get you higher than heroin
It doesn’t make your hair fall
Or your teeth decay
It doesn’t make your liver rot
Or your kidneys stop
But it simulates your brain.
It inspires poetry
Better than weed
Manufactured by nature itself
No chemical reactions- just elemental
Between rainwater and earth
Petrichor.
Kaleidoscopic (haiku)
Half-lives and half-solved sudokus
Walking home from Chemistry class,
Having just learned about half-lives,
Something caught my eye- something
Tossed carelessly by the roadside.
Not anything particularly curious, no;
Neither poets’ fancies or revelations,
golden autumn leaves
dewdrops- nothing alluring nor appealing. Continue reading
दीपक की आत्मकथा (Autobiography of an oil lamp)
मैं धरती- पूत, अग्नि-पूत
अग्नि का ही निवास हूँ,
मुझे अम्बर से क्या?
अपने छोटे- से संसार का
उजाला बनकर संतुष्ट हूँ मैं ।
Faces in a crowd
A sea of souls
Progressing languidly,
Honey tipped from a bottle.
I am but a drop in this sea,
A face in the crowd to everyone else
Like everyone is to me.
The nameless yellow-flowered tree
When Summer combs her golden locks
And lets a strand fall,
It reaches the earth and seeds
The nameless yellow-flowered tree.
Nox
What is darkness?
The absence of light, they say.
But it is not darkness which is the absence of light
It is light which is the absence of darkness.
And here we are
Here we are, on the day borders fall off
The day the world celebrates as one
Undivided by the mountains and oceans of differences
The day of the global festival,
When there’s no India-Pakistan or Russia-USA
Just the planet, drowned in happiness.
