These mountains had existedWhen my ancestors had livedThey had roamed their risky ridgesTheir tall silhouettes scurrying for coverWhen dark silences echoed in the hollowsA silky sky touched the mountaintopWhile fluffy cotton clouds had castDiaphanous shadows on their flanksIn the unblinking moments of my eyesThey saw my foolish childhoodin knickers, asking silly questionsThese were the [...]
Archive for April, 2005
20 Apr
Sleep
The birdsong came backThis time with a bearded manThe sky was deep blueIn the mountains and beyondAnd gently touching themThe man’s eyes slept for longThe blue in them disappeared,Above the yellowed stone shelter,Into the translucent April sky.It had rained from the white skyAnd he had slept and sleptAs if he had not woken upFrom yesterday’s [...]
18 Apr
Dreams
Several flimsy images are playedBehind the opaquenessOf my heavy-lidded eyes .
I am not at the centrestage.They are nothing,not even existenceJust fragments of a fractured reality.
15 Apr
The Hampi rocks
The evening swapped the orange skyFor a silver-lined cloud in tattersThe rocks sizzled through the dayAt sundown their fever subsidedTheir blazing orange desires ebbedIn the nucleus of their inner beingTime had burnt them to perfection Beyond the pale of their stony selfness Their sun-smell touched the bushes Quickening life in their brown limbs As the [...]
1 Apr
The miners have come
Then the mountains fell silent.The leafless shrubs pretended They did not exist, waiting forThe mountain’s endorsementOf their terrestrial existence.The night’s silence broke throughStacks of brown mountainsThe wind blew in their facesAs though it was flowing water And the monsoon had arrivedThe fact is that the monsoonHas already come and goneThere was no water flowingOnly [...]
