Shadow
The gray flows into the blue,
The water rises to meet the sky,
The orchestra of sounds crashing into me,
The ship in pieces.
The waterlogged wood splitting,
The rain, washing everything away.
There’s a lady crying,
Holding her dead son’s body.
A hungry puppy looking for it’s mother.
A bullet has been shot somewhere,
we just heard it.
There’s no light left.
And yet, I stand [...]
Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Poetry: Divyangana Rakesh
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Poetry: Sayak Roy Chowdhury
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sounds of Silence
When you stop talking
The crickets fill up the silence.
The ticking clock,
Water, dripping in an empty bucket
The barking dogs in some faraway lane
A shouting child,
A quarreling couple
Gossiping televisions
Suddenly throng my nerves.
They just don’t shut up like you.
They simply don’t give up.
And that ceaseless noise from inside…
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Elders
They talk about people
They talk about home.
They argue on [...]
Poetry: Omair Anwar
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on July 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I am, I feel
Hypnotize me.
Too much pain, too little respite
Cage me.
Too much vice, too little of virtue
Bind me.
Too many mistakes, just too many
I recede.
In cold dungeons of pain
I run.
Through forests of falsehood
Ere all that ends, ere all that begins
Like an endless circle
I am, I feel
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And Death sang me a lullaby
Come to me or I shall [...]
Poetry: Tania Dey
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on June 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Before rainclouds
I have seen you once..
Just before the rainclouds came..
and then I have walked through several oceans..
and to see you again would mean death to a lot of things..
fluorescent frills of water around my waist engulf me now..
as I have often dreamt..
of losing out to you..
and I can see your boat from afar..
pale white sails [...]
Poetry: Ali Ghafoor
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on June 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Immortality
Blank minds and blank pages
hibernate together as thoughts
dreams and ideas collect outside
in a snowstorm flurry falling
and burying them
inside their own malignancy
as the elements are too harsh to face
and snow angels are not at all angels
and they lie inside where all is
and they are
Obvious, Oblivious
Tattered rags that were once pendants
flap about upon the thinnest of reeds
forced [...]
Poetry: Deya Bhattacharya
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on June 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Her Chaotic Laughter.
It was a different kind of laughter. Hers.
And She, often, wished the world would drown in her sudden wave of madness.
It was a different kind of laughter.
That made her forget words, people, lovers, passion.
The laughter resounded in the corridors…
And filled her mind with an insane joy.
Her laughter echoed.
She trembled.
Yet, they said, her laughter [...]
Poetry: Anum Asi
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on May 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
God in the World
Simple words
On a white page
In truncated
Sentences
Are mine to write.
To give, to hand out,
As I do (you tell me)
With smug smiles.
The sun is outside
My window.
I want to own him because
He is beautiful;
And I want to write him down
And let that out into
The world, and say:
Look what I’ve made!
Isn’t it pretty?
The moon is rising,
Pale [...]
Poetry: Hitesh Talwar
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
(Angling)
I can but stare in startled surmise,
With disbelief hanging precariously from these
Stoic peepholes,
At the Surreal; so real and tangible,
Bathed in a shroud so sanctimoniously incandescent
You must be the summability of
Saviours sent from a surrogate heaven,
To weave
A prophetic renunciation,
Of this disillusioned perspective
The tranquillity of your presence
Alleviates this convolution
So vile;
And despite my inhibitions,
It gives this pariah life
Your [...]
Poetry: Shruti Srinivasan
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You.
my dreams these nights are washed
in red-tinged tints
the red flush of desire and longing
hairsprayed over a black background
dreams in whose pages
your summertime breath whispers
a breeze against my neck
your long fingers
tracing fading spirals on my skin
a slow half-noticed smile
on someone’s lips
well this isn’t the face that was supposed
to be here ensconced in my head
but you are [...]
Poetry: Anurima Sen
Posted in Poetry, tagged ex nihilo, Poetry on May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Kingdoms
The king has no memory
that we were robbed
of metaphors.
Dense amnesia envelops
the slave-child.
The present
would soon be lived through
(but he’d forget).
And the kingdom
has guided channels
serving anesthetic
to a select few
who feel.
Today, unguarded,
at sundown fled
prisoners
of war
into forests
bearing familiar names
on raw, peevish barks.
Perhaps the Druids
still pray for us.
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Letters
- I’ll write.
- Will you bring back prayers for me?
- I’ll write everyday.
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