At midnight as the wind howled
One remembered random things
Images which came straight
From the back alley’s darkness.
It was time to say something
Or get back to soft wet sleep.
More random images, period.
This way you break conversation
And prevent lapsing into comma.
Sleep comes creeping in the bones
In the face, in the eyes, period.
Archive for July, 2009
23 Jul
Period
20 Jul
Srinagar crows
Here I lay with my face opposed to the wall,
As its whiteness slowly seeps in my wakefulness.
At midnight I open my eyes in sleep’s darkness
It is these Srinagar crows that are restating
What the Mumbai crows had stated metallically-
These little specs of midnight’s darkness hide
In dark green chinar leaves waiting to burst out
With their sordid tales [...]
20 Jul
Prayer
It is nice to think you can play with light
You just prevent the light in the curtains
From ritually raising its hands in the dark.
Perhaps you can also write pictures, sketch
A thing or two like Picasso did with light
When he drew elephants in the dark room.
My praying hands are outstretched palms
Waiting for grace and light [...]
20 Jul
Evening rain
Evening rain glistens on the road
As bread is bought and bananas are
Turned over for ripeness and less ripeness.
The rain is dancing on the car roof;
From the car the camera tries to catch
The wet sun on the leaves of the corner tree
Soon the wipers catch fever and quickly
We make our way in a sea of umbrellas.
20 Jul
Midnight
In the opaque darkness of my night
Thinking is neither love nor poetry ;
Midnight breeze slows down thinking.
Only a dog’s nightly barks keep it going
By thoughts of bright yellow laburnums
At the turn of the morning walk road
And two contented dogs under them.
It is sultry nights that slow you down
Memories keep going of bones in pots
And [...]
20 Jul
The peak in Hong Kong
Here we talk on the peak ,about the peak
And some times walk gloriously on the peak
In summer our performance peaks in the peak
As tiny white lights glitter through the dark.
When the night air is biting and crisp
The stars peak in their glittering performance .
As we go up and up on the peak tram
We hold [...]
20 Jul
Anger
We were tracing the cause for his miserable effect.
When one gets into cloud-storms of anger and frustration
It is nice to think that others deserve calumny.
That way one feels less guilty ,less responsible.
The black spot on his face seems less visible
But we have our focus on the spot ,between the brow
On the cheekbone ,when the years [...]
20 Jul
Prayer
In the rock lay my lovely child-God
Who was born today morning.
There is this saffron-robed monk
Under the folds of water in the rock
Lighting the perfumed camphor for him
In the dark recesses of my mind
Whenever the orange sun is missing.
