To spring back to life

Extract a vein from one place
A nerve from another
Lock and attach
Borrow a joint
Hinge sense to senselessness

Compress, pump, exhale
Delay the inevitable
Get the pulse thumping
Gasp, sputter, accelerate
As the DNR sign falls to the side


September 2011

Lust

A lust for words, a lust for dandelions
For open valleys and a loft studio
A lust for quiet, a lust for thunder
A lust for life and for obliteration too
A lust to revamp, a lust to re-invent,
To be foam-arisen!
And the lust to auger away
To hold my core, pristine.


August 2011

Tonight ( A haiku)

The moon is wearing kohl tonight

A cloud gropes my face

I lie eclipsed


July 2011

Kahe Darya

Kahe darya tujhe iss paar
Jaana hai mujhe uss paar
Ruko na mujhe, toko na mujhe
Na chaido gham, na kuraido zakham

Hai samandar mera duur paar
Safar khaardaar, faasla behadd paichdaar
Aur meri umeed ab bhi wahi, samandar ki duuri wahi
Naseeb mera doobna wahi, samandar ki sardmohri wahi


July 2011

The Witching Hour

Quietly falls the night somewhere
Somewhere a morning loses its way
As footsteps grow distant slowly
And shadows leave for corners moons away


The wishing well has regurgitated its pennies
The mirror stands tall with a gash
The wishing bone has remained unbroken
The clover grows four leaves no more


The hearth is cold with the fire gone
The creaking door, stilled with silence
While sand has lain with the footmarks
And on the clock its witching hour forevermore

Nevertheless

The morbid me
Reckless, hopeless
The hopeless me
Clueless, restless
The restless me
In duress, baseless
The baseless me
Affectless, faceless
The faceless me
Nevertheless, limitless


June 2011

Aankh Zaar Zaar

Dasht'e tanhai aur aye jaane jahan
Hangama aarai bhi aur mehfil'e khubaan
Khumaar beqaraar, hasti bekhudd
Madhosh dhadhkan, haal behaal besudh
Gham'e doraan yahan, gham'e jaanan
Yahan gham'e hasti, gham'e dahar yahan
Jaam pe jaam uthein phir bohot
Aankh zaar zaar lutay behadd


May 2011