Sunday, October 30, 2011

Pixie Kingdom...

This poem is a special dedication to two kids who inspired me to write this.... Kids can inspire you to live in a beautiful way, without guile, with absolute freedom of thought and expression. And thanks to these pixies, i saw that.... so here is to Nilu and Silu.... and the friend who I am much obliged to introduce me to them.... :) to your last day in pixie kingdom....



Early morning pitter patter
Charming smiles
And sly talk...

Little happy pixies
Crowding the corridor
Sitting on the kitchen table
Asking innocent questions

Little funny pixies
Teasing, laughing
Bright eyed, understanding
Trusting, accepting,
Creatures, like me, from long ago...

In the world of monsters
And alien fears
Pixies still exist
In the little ordinary gaps
Of neighbourhoods

Constantly
Bringing beauty
In chaos
Bringing simplicity
To happiness...

Let them not grow
Pixies, only being pixies
Can save the world...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Fruits..........

I wait patiently
Not knowing otherwise
As I watch them load
Truck after truck
Of the food I created
My sweat and blood
Nourishing the land of my forefathers

These hawks
Are lurking around
Hustling and bargaining
As I sit and hope
That no accidental scratch
Or blemish
Seals my fate, and those I love

They mock me
And snigger at my helplessness
While I sit
For long expectant hours
Hoping to make ends meet
This year
Even as their gaze sizes me down...

The other fortunate ones
How easily they deny us
How easily they reject
Time after time
Even as they eat
From my hands

My hands are eroded
Alongwith their hunger
My shame, afresh
As the fruits of my toil

I am like my creator
Creation seems to be my only gift
And my only curse...


Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Skin.

Respond
Quickly. Precisely.
As each chord is strung

And little ripples
chasms, they break out
graining the surface...

The transformation
is not permanent

the shining smooth outwardness
reveals an untouched core...

The story
thus ends
as it begins,

The ink
barely seeping
newer boundaries,

The promises
barely reaching
desired ears...

Love succumbs
only skin deep...