On the shore, an image of herShimmered, in frothy laughter.The sea has now risen Like her own body’s upheaval,Then, in pure, purple pain.The sea will calm downWhen the night is born.
Archive for January, 2006
25 Jan
The call never came
Thinking nights cannot easily sleepFull of dark secrets in the bellyThat rise as smoky-eyed dreams,When awareness takes an abrupt turn.The tree stood mute by the templeA man cogitated on the verandahAnother, on his knees, stared at the riverAn old man squatted, his head bent,Among turbaned men of another time,Awaiting the call from across the river.Actually [...]
20 Jan
Poems
Creatures of the gone world walk,In measured meters, by dark streamsFlowing with the city’s vulgar sins.Thinking poems are autumn-fallingIn criss-cross patches of golden sun,Actually these are pallid ghostsPulled out of unlit eastern skiesLaughing poems feel like poemsOn the grassy mounds, childrenMimicking toothless laughter, hidingLots of death-fear knotted aroundApproaching birthdays in jitters.Silver manes falling on grey [...]
19 Jan
Responsibility
We have thought deeply;Our responsibility endsWhen we leave this place;It will be such a relief.We click our tongues;We wear our oldnessOn our hanging selves.The symmetry remainsWholly outside our grasp,Whatever we do still.Beams of yellow lightFlood our parks, our eyes.Those pixels are getting lost,From our translucent skiesWhen we lie under the skySquiggly worms no longerSwim behind [...]
2 Jan
Possession
The Goddess spoke, fiercely,Through white anger’s mists;The body shouted thick-throatedA lower order goddess, surely,Cannot be all that demandingCrying for well-fattened cocks.Fear becomes the key translatingTo waves of body movements.A matter of thinned blood supplyOr a fleeting hardening of vessels,She lay there sprawled, wailing.Anger burst out of the boundsShe had crossed all body-barriersJust when sanity finally [...]
