A Mother’s Gift..

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 […]

Read More

Bambaiya VI: Where time stands…

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 […]

Read More

Not This..But That

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 […]

Read More

In Silence..

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 […]

Read More

The Sea And Me

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 […]

Read More

Sun On The Run

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 […]

Read More

Paper Boats…

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” […]

Read More

Windows In My Ceiling

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 […]

Read More

Bambaiya IV: A tangy evening

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 […]

Read More

Tough Love

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 […]

Read More
 
Join the other awesome people who get the new posts right away by email!
Be the first to read the latest on Unboxed Writers.
Enter your email and stay on top of things!

Subscribe!