Category: Musings

at the far end of the rocky ledge, she stands her gigantic torso crowned with her ebullient gaze the advancing surf breaking down into  countless pearls at her heels  yet her eyes still search for that lost pearl that once  rendered her heart a beat, compelled her eyes to fantasies, provoked her to love… an…

  Have I been here before Why it looks familiar and more Have I seen it in dreams Or is it in tears downstream This long and winding road That leads to your door This wild and windy night When the rain washes all the plight But the memories still remain When I travel this…

Covered in the warmth of my quilt white as a cloud, I felt the morning rays shining aloud. The stubborn heart ignored the Sun and dozed off again, The Sun left me and arrived the shrewd  thunder with rain, The raindrops knocked at my French window pane, Unfolding myself in my manifold dress, Stretching out…

Who is this artist? Who created this wonderful canvas? Gaea in her green robes A cool blue veil over her soft being A tinge of crimson as she blushes  A palanquin of snowy clouds brings zephyr Softly through the velvet green carpet A splash colors all over Lush green meadows Lined with daffodils and heather…

I am losing myself each day fragment by fragment in this quagmire of love in this imperceptible mesh of love a love that knows no reason, a love that discerns no rule, a love that is celebrated beyond life, Love’s silver strings sway at the slightest touch of autumn’s breeze twirl and dance yet they…

the tiny pearls that tumble from heaven are a boon for some and to some a bane in their plush balconies some sail paper boats while some struggle to put together their polythene roofs some enjoy the splashes and cooks flavorful platter some struggle to hold on to their belongings amidst flooded squatter   soggy…

That little house Was it always empty, unoccupied? the broken walls un-mended trees outgrowing walls and seeping inside, like a no man’s land How the thunder and fierce rains fell its sheds and the dripping water collected in left-out corners and self-made pits At the sun’s rising, the cows approaching and waiting to feed on…

My Valentine Tale I loved that boy who made me my first paper boat, I loved that girl who helped to keep it afloat. I loved that bell which ushered the school vacation, I loved that train which took me to a hill station. . I loved my cousins who took me under their wings,…

She loved dancing in rain, Amphan snatched everyone and left her in pain, Shattered she sat cuddled up in her shovel, Gazed at the flickering light of the lantern. The pitter-patter on the tin shed, Rains were calling her to dance again, Shutting her ears with her hands, She covered her torso with hay strands,…

beneath the thinnest yellow light, I sit relishing its warmth that’s cosier than the wine mellow and exhilarating,  it is that time of the year again when the rust-orange splashes gleefully  paves the way to the milk drops the chill dreary winds replace the pumpkin spiced breeze mittens, quilts, socks, hood see the daylight nature…

How I wish I fell so freely Like a blazing shooting star, Fulfilling all your dreams, Staying miles afar. I wish you shared all your secrets And I’d hold them like my own, I wish we could be close as ever And not let our friendship gone. I wish we sat below the stars And…

EMBRACING LIFE When words are reduced to meaningless, incoherent babbles, Highlighting our fears and undermining our struggles – When the spineless fear curbs the spirit of a cheerful mind, Painting it with its unholy color of all encompassing blindness – When life becomes listless, loveless and a continuous pain, Putting it in the quagmire of…