EVALUATION 27 jan. 1978 we circle sit and circle talk pretend that yesterday’s idols had feet of clay poke and push and tumble down rearrange for tomorrow’s prayer another idol steady stable feet of bronze stand back and gaze in wonder- good god! We’ve forgotten the head!
Category Archives: Poems
Encounters
ENCOUNTERS 14 . 11 . 78 encounters of another kind it’s dark, i dream the shatter stillness of the night the quiet midnight scream the whisper voices pass me by they tell me i am blind i see, i swear i see they drift before my eyes i see the shapeless forms my eyes, i …
empty urn
dolphin friend!!.(turn on your speakers)._
…amritaN, ankitaT, ashwiniB, karinD, latika, marisa, mayuri, mruduta, neisha, parinaz, payalS, preethi, shireenL, shona, sohini, sophiaJ, swatiSahoo, ujjaini, yakuta, zomie, My dear sunlight sprinkled blue lagoon graceful ballet dance we share a summer afternoon by choice and not by chance in different worlds we live apart together once again my waterworld, your land and skies exchanging now and …
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Does it matter
DOES IT MATTER Does it matter your going away just walking out to something new? Does it matter on corridors we’ll no more chance on sunbeams- your gentle smile a while of grace before we race off to things to do and ways to be? Does it matter a canteen chair remains unused- one less …
Dharavi you pass us by
You pass us by In distance drift dismissively you wonder who we are and how in such sorry state we live Hesitant curious glances with shrug or shudder for what lurks beyond the dirt dark dank of cluttered crowded maze. Asia’s largest slum you think and thank god you have else You pass us by …
Dharavi poems
Dharavi Bell and bulb gong and beam resonance and dazzle…. awakening summoning illuminating…. up-down and all around cramp sweat within pulsing rhythmic throb of city within a city feverishly buzz working to keep them both alive….. You pass us by In distance drift dismissively you wonder Who we are and how In such sorry state …
Dharavi Bell and bulb
Dear Shaziya
DEAR SHAZIYA Dear Shaziya, I must say your letter, maid, my day was turned into a splash of stars and sun with crayons, pics and lines, “knock-knock” jokes, recalling times and things ago, ’twas really full of pun. So here is my reply written down below, so “Hi!” ’tis forthright, free & floating, fast & …
country flowers!!._
Nikita G My dear Unnoticed… easily passed by Wild flowers, country flowers. hidden in the ordinary of all-around shrubs and half-trampled grass glanced at casually dismissed from attention. One has to make an effort of sorts. Stop for a while …bend a bit perhaps. Go down curious on one’s knees Get closer to where they are …