Monday, March 31, 2014

Happy birthday, Poetry


April is dedicated to you,
Dear Poetry,
This is first day of the cruel month,
When you are going to be toasted for
Your arrival and company on the global front
Through social media like the Facebook,
I wish you happy birthday,
Dear Muse to me and million others,
You have made my existential burden light
Through your sublime presence;
I salute you for uplifting me above the mundane
And showing me the strange realms with balming touch,
And pointing us to the rare vistas and hoary summits
Scaled by the likes of Shakespeare, Keats and Wordsworth;
Your words are cherished by hungry generations that want
To make this planet a better and livable world;
I invoke my goddess to guide me always to inspiring words
And to spread love and tolerance for my sisters and brothers

Of different tongues, faiths and colours!

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Cotton tree


It stands out
Amid other trees,
Alone,
Distinguished,
In this season of
Some flowering,
Some totally bare trees;
Attracting attention of an alert
Passerby, instantly
To that white tree;
The fluffy pods
Looking like puffed-up ice-balls
Stuck up delicately,
On the brown rugged branches,
Like tempting candy;
The bright flowers,
Creating a falling stream
Of pure, soothing snow,
On this hot day of
Early summer,
Near the hectic Mumbai.


Monday, March 3, 2014

Kiss


The travelling fog
Comes and kisses
The old man out for
A slow morning walk,
Startling him completely
By the cold breath;
Like that hurried peck
 Given years ago,
By a forgetful son
Before he departed forever for
The seductive United States,
And,
Never came back.
.