How do you disguise your blessings so well? For such a long time, I mistook them for misfortunes. As I searched for my way In this desert of shifting dunes. I took you for a sadist when You disguised my lessons as tragedy. Now I know you denied me my gluttony, When I was just…
Tag: literature
Unrequited Hate
Let the revenge go cold And then throw it away in the sink. Let the treachery slide Like a debt gone bad, Never paid back. Let not your insides turn to bile But smile gently at their guile. Fold the rage, make a plane And let it fly into the rain. Let the pain win…
Tiger in the Twilight
A little bird rocks away On the tip of a leaf. The months roll into years Fill with gibberish. The weeks gather dust My tools in the shelf gather rust, Pains seep into each other And I can’t make out one from another. Yet, even as them pains tighten their grip, My dreams they still…
Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
It’s difficult to begin to describe this work, or try to box it. Into a genre, into a review, anything. This book was my first brush with Neil Gaiman, and I realized there is so much beauty on earth left to be explored. When the forests are burning, swooning over words and imagination could appear…
When the time’s right
When the time’s right Black they call my boat but I know, It is just the light That needs be right. And once the light in all its glory Bathes my boat, They’ll tell an all different story! Dark they call my oars but I know, That won’t be forever, Once the water washes over…
The Wait (poem)
Don’t take the pain away, I pray Lest I forget how bad it had hurt, Just give me a song if you can So it doesn’t sting so hard. Don’t take those memories away Lest I forget to mind the gap, Just give me a fairytale where the hero Can leap coolly across the…
Translation: Nirjharer Swapnabhanga (Rabindranath Tagore)
The Awakening of the Fountain (translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s ???????? ??????????, an ode to joy and awakening if ever there was one!) — Oh what music this morn Did the morning bird play! Seemed to float gently in From the skies far far away! I know not how A lost tune of that song Made…
The trade I made
The trade I made ———————- Time I took stock of the past few days The things I bought, the trades I had Some of them iffy, some not so bad! Sweet anticipations for sweeter memories Some ugly pains for beautiful stories. A lotta smiles I got, for a few laughs.. tops And a softer pillow…
Turning corners
Turning corners —-?————— I haven’t always looked before I leapt, Made promises that were not kept. Times I priced my trust too low, Times I learnt my lessons slow. Times I turned blind corners too fast, And ended up stubbing my toe. But I’ve tried through it all To not get hurt till before the…
The puzzle of the pearl
The puzzle of the pearl —————————– I had a pearl, as radiant as light. Actually, I might’ve had it for long, Way longer than I knew I did. But discovering it did me little good. For I knew not its value, Neither its use nor its food. I wondered what to do with my pearl….