I don’t think we ever saw eye to eye About anything under the great blue sky; In fact, as Dad often says: We were a pair of book-ends, looking opposite ways. But now, as I see my own child grow In a mould that I, oh! so intimately know, I’ve come to realize so many […]
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A Mother’s Gift..
On Mother’s Day, we at Unboxed Writers share a simple but deeply emotional poem written by a mother on her young daughter’s Facebook Wall… I can’t give solutions to all of life’s problems, doubts, or fears. But I can listen to you, and together we will search for answers. I can’t change your past with all its […]
Bambaiya VI: Where time stands…
She was the rocks that embraced the oceans. Like lovers holding on to one another. Like rain water holds onto earth and like the earth that holds it back – love evident from the fragrance. She’s bosomed many a love; watched them grow, seen them bloom. And she looks spectacular, like spring the flamboyance of […]
Bambaiya V: She made water from water
Every morning we rushed to the sink To brush our teeth and wash our face And as we turned on the tap There was no water To even wet our finger tips But Ma stood there and smiled as she said, “Let’s make water from water, So we don’t fall short, When the taps run […]
Not This..But That
Not the love that watches. Not the love that waits. Not the love that bides its time. Not the love that obeys the clock, the traffic, laws of the season and reason. But the love that is here and now.. Like an impetuous embrace, The sweat on the brow, The sun on the skin, Like […]
In Silence..
Silence chugs on noiselessly, eternally like a well-oiled secret. Pervasive. Invasive. Persistant. Lingering on to speak, listen, sigh, whisper and feed on the chatter of hope. Silence, rising like smoke, stinging nostrils and eyelids of the soul.. As we watch empty years that passed without eyes locked across the checkered table cloth. Without words that were to gush into parched hollows like monsoon rivulets and bring us to life […]
The Sea And Me
I want to take the sea with me Wherever I go, whatever I be To rest my head on a pillow of water A life lived as King Neptune’s daughter I want to take the sea with me To feel the whipping wind in my face Could there ever be a better place? I want to […]
Sun On The Run
Chased the sun to the edge of a cliff He slipped into Sandman’s lair through walls as thick as mist Rowed through the clouds trying to remember a dream With a heart that’s numb and a mind in deep freeze Shadows wear colour as and when they please Reality grows rich in a world of […]
Paper Boats…
Down the street they stroll hand in hand Like lovers who’d care two hoots should the whole world be damned She leaps about to a rhythm none but she can hear Never failing to keep pace with his slow tentative step Two hops to one plod A rather odd time signature “Another one, another one” […]
Windows In My Ceiling
I’ve got windows in my ceiling they can’t see the sky Mere shadowed projections thrown by headlights passing by The pendulum sways the old clock’s alive Hush… listen to the breath of the seconds passing by The fan keeps a churning humming to the ghosts The crickets are composing an ode to sweet repose Moonlight […]
Bambaiya IV: A tangy evening
The bell tolls It’s five and he arrives, with his modest cart packed with savouries. Just a whiff threatening to knock out the senses. The ingredients neatly stacked under glass panels fixed on three sides of the cart – windows to a tangy world. Then come the leak-proof cones crafted from discarded glossy magazine papers […]
Tough Love
The first hit came unexpectedly, as though a shock of lightning had coursed through me. The second tore skin, letting rain from above pierce my bloodstream and flood my body. The third was faster and sickeningly loud when flesh and bone and brick and rain clanged through the night. The grass is green and the […]