Tag: Parting
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Love Letters
#L How your fragrance and love Ooze out as I unfold Each carefully pressed layer Of your tattered letters. As my shaky fingers smoothen out Each wrinkled word, phrase and line, I regale moments shared. Magically you appear, as if to Speak to me, in absentia: Oh ’twere that I could fold you into my…
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If Meetings Are Truth
#Poattic-4 #Poetryparlour #Lies If meetings are truth, Then partings are lies. In this cyclic world Rushing hither thither All screaming silences die. And circular points disappear. One hastens through a motley crowd Into the comfort Of a tenuous heart’s tie. *** ‘Tis this silken strand That anchors A time-worn traveler’s Blighted heart, affixing It into…
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Kalaivaani
We played hopscotch on the narrow street outside our houses. I visited her typical Brahmin household to watch old Hindi movies on her then-in-vogue black and white television set while her soft spoken pirate eyed mother made some strong coffee, the smell making me wonder in my little mind whether her husband left her because…