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- Column: Letter to a young poet friend at allpoetry
Stride into the wind, feel it, and write. Walk into the rain and get
drenched when you write of rain. Taste the sweet tang of the plum to
know the poetry of plum. It is an exciting journey when you truly get
into it. - Time at allpoetry
. - Sunbird at allpoetry
. - Surrender at allpoetry
. - Station platform at allpoetry
. - Fish in the tank at allpoetry
. - New Year at allpoetry
. - Convalescent at allpoetry
Days come tumbling one over the other
Talking to me in familiar gestures— - Checkmate at allpoetry
. - What is the quality of that moment then? at allpoetry
Like when you jump from an airplane
And you are in the clouds - As I walk the streets this night at allpoetry
The lamp sheds a jewel
In the puddle on the ground, - Poem at allpoetry
At the farthest end of the corridor
A door opens. - After the Cloudburst at allpoetry
Shhhhh… she tells you,
In a hush, swinging out of reach—
- The Raibow at allpoetry
A flock of steel-grey and white doves flapped up from the neighbouring roof in petrified excitement and fluttered up into the sky as though at the sound of an inaudible gunshot.
- Redemption? at allpoetry
. - Twin Crows at allpoetry
Two crows were perching huddled close on a twig up the big tree swaying with the winds blowing from the west.
- Goal ! at allpoetry
there were eight or ten of them little boys, it was difficult to count them, for they kept swinging madly on their roller skates on the court hardly the size of a basketball court, sweeping along in a bunch after the ball wit - Just this big at allpoetry
. - Star-crossed at allpoetry
. - Rainy Night at allpoetry
. - Frozen at allpoetry
Street-abustle morn-- In my lodging room above - my son at allpoetry
my son / eighteen-year-old vishnu / in between lessons / pumps twelve-kg dumbbells / talks of calories over breakfast / how much ronnie coleman takes / and how much arnold swartsennegar / what their workout sche - First 11 Haikus at allpoetry
Carnival / Keep the gate closed... / Ants troop dancing on it... / Rio Carnival! / Eternity / Nuns inhale the sun / Sea-cast pearls around their feet... / Giggling penguins! / Str - tread lightly... at allpoetry
tread lightly beneath / this cherry tree...feeding time... / nightingales - nuns inhale the sun at allpoetry
nuns inhale the sun / sea-cast pearls around their feet... / giggling penguines - rain comes at allpoetry
rainclouds gallop / above; hard i race below... / who will reach home first? - she cop at allpoetry
a hooting whistle / on her lips meant for a kiss-- / traffic violation - picture smiles at allpoetry
the picture smiles / daring the painter / make just one blemish / --- / version 2: / let me with my brush / add to your perfection / just one blemish - Pillion Rider at allpoetry
Each time he slows bike / Larks spring to wings, spring blossoms... / Her warm little breasts. - Footprints at allpoetry
In the dark corridors of my dreams / I search for your footprints. / Like fragrance wafting from another birth / I remember / On my frozen floor / The soft kisses of your steps. / I can feel your presenc - Footprints at allpoetry
In the dark corridors of my dreams / I search for your footprints. / Like a fragrance wafting from another birth / I remember / On my frozen floor / The soft kisses of your steps. - Fragile at allpoetry
You know your life is fragile / When the dame's porcelaine missile / Misses you by a whisker, / Shattering a pleasant daydream. - Vertigo at allpoetry
flowers mesmerized / by their glow aloft the trees / do have vertigo - Drunk and out at allpoetry
I was fully drunk, I know, / But my car, / It brought me safely home. / I was out and blank, I know, / But I remember, / You propped me from wheel to bed. - A letter at allpoetry
For days it was as if I never existed. / You had blotted me out of your world / Like a wilted flower from your vase. / I have lived by our unuttered pledges: / Rising with your name as a prayer on the lips, / B
