Poem: Mask

Mish is hosting dVerse Poetics today. For today’s prompt, she’d like us to focus on metaphorical masks, or psychological masks, so to speak. Here’s my take at it:   Hey you! Yes! I am talking to you Not the one who’s smiling at my disgracing cue But the...

Quadrille: Memories

  encumbering societal norms weighed heavy on me so I rescinded to hibernate to rationalize my subsistence to feel my roots like waves retracting to depth of ocean then your memories creaked gently in the silence of my heart breathing me to life yet again  ...

A Poem is…

feelings… feelings invoke imagination imagination rears thoughts thoughts starve for words words scattered… as billions of stars and galaxies thoughts amalgamate with words words spill on paper a poem is born! happiness orchestrates… makes soul dance soar without...

Poem: I lost myself

thunderous waves never plundered my spirits neither hurricane ravaged my vigour dusk never dawned encumbrance for darkness shrouded my existence unscathed by the disparaging world I was wounded only one time but contusions spurn to heal I’ve been in pain ever since…...

Poem: A Desire…

Today I’ve penned down something in my native language- Hindi. These are actually afterthoughts of reading a Hindi poem.  I’ve given the English translation below my original poem.   इक ख़्वाहिश   ठंडी हवा के झोंके जब पेड़ों को सरसराहें यूँ लगे तुम्हारी...