a fine day

the day was fine,
the sun  shined
i got up the bed,
like a song sublime.

i looked at the river
flow.
i remembered
how she went
not waiting for me,
yet staying with me.

i felt the breeze.
memories.
her arms
around me.
and how I took
the oxygen
from her kiss
as if 
I could not live
without it.

now
I'm breathless.

I open my eyes.
i see
the river
flow by.

the day was fine,
the sun shined.

The Graduate

(to my niece Aadya on her kinder graduation, june 2012)


Hey kinder graduate,
Come lets celebrate!

Hopscotch, sing a song, play, rock n roll,
Merry go round girl you're a doll.

Eat some biscuits, chocolates delicious,
To one & all yes yes you're most precious.

Go bend your body see upside down, Ho!
Colourful smile is the wide wide rainbow.

Life is a surprise let's put it to test.
Climb up the tree free bird has built a nest

We'll sit chatter chatter plenty of matter,
They say in Hindi for tomato 'tamattarrrrr'.

Ha ha ha. 
Click. Click. 
Caught your laugh in a photograph.
Now let's see the ships sail n dock @ the Cochin wharf.

And roam round around until the sundown.
After dark we'll see the stars and you can change your gown.

Hey tender graduate, one thing I sure bet.
With your magic 'Jee-boom-baa' you're teachers pet.

Redemption of a Rapist?

When? When will I realize,
Girl and the man is one and the same?
When to me will this strike,
She's not an object of any game?

When will I face it,
my enemy lust?
Why can't I see
It burns me to a pathetic dust?

When will I understand,
Form is a transient mirage?
When will I visualize,
It's flesh, bones, blood and trash?

When to me will occur the fact,
Body and Shit is the very same food?
Why then is it so hard for me
To make an effort and change for good?

When will I feel this in my heart,
I crushed her dream into a drop of tear?
When will I sow a tender gaze,
To see in her face a Smile flower.

When? When indeed will I awake?
That day she'll walk fearlessly again.
It's time to draw my sword and fight.
To wage this war within why the hell am I afraid!?

I pray I realize and save the Grace,
She's the goddess who carries this Human Race!

The Connect

(When we started a what's app group of friends from 11th & 12th)

After 18 Long Years, a flame's poof

We meet again under this what's app roof

On different paths we eagerly started 

Here we're, feeling we never parted!? Touchwood.

How this Connect? Now with the Muses I wonder

To the freedom we take in this forum I surrender

Born of something and everything deeper

Than just knowing and bowing simply to the other

Before we met at school for first

In the register our names were set

Wow! Did you glimpse that beautiful Connect

We can call it destiny and fairly reflect

We took our seats eyeing each other

To meet everyone yonder it was pleasure

Slowly, naturally we acquainted further

Then it happened! I felt 'together' :)

I lived my life in your breaths exhale

From the same pond of air we did inhale

Mozart I heard, in our harmonic heart beat

Mine slipped to 180 bpm, in that excitement heat

We moved singular at the school bell ting

Bonded in a line we were ready to sing

Ha ha! Haa ha! We giggled the song

Shhh! Stop it guys, else they will hit the gong

Same lessons and sounds we heard

Someone started counting the sheep herd

What I mean to say is we merged

As we dissolved like sugar in that knowledge curd

Teachers filled the blackboard , wiped it clean

With the left over chalks we played unseen

In the urinals our urine linked like streams 

We even shared our fantasy dreams

Oh we were merry like Tom & Jerry

Jolly we set sail in this Senior School ferry

All is well we tell but sometimes unwell

We held on to each other and kicked some fear to hell

A year and another we shared our hunger lunch

Jokingly sometimes we tried to pinch and punch

Voila! The magic happened! Can you tell me what?!

1,2,3 Now you loose! We have become a family at heart.

One more thing I've left to say, before I go away

I may break my rhyme and verse, let me simply say

Long after we all parted, I went

back to the school

Not a person but one was there

sitting in a stool

Kind enough he was to let me

inside so cool

He knew I grew up in that school

and I was no fool

I went to our class up front,

empty and silent

I sat in one seat and then every seat,

where you all sat for long

And from my heart I wished all best of the luck

All the best and the rest

I sat there for some more time,

With a joyous heart I parted

From the street I looked again

At the school where we all chatted

After 18 Long Years, a flame's poof

We chat again under this what's app roof

Suddenly Urania got up,

I quickly held her hand.

What's the rush I asked,

I asked her what's up?

She smiled at me and told me this

Let me share it here, listen

Look up the night sky, do you see

Trillions of dots twinkling together

There like how the Orion Dots Connect

This group has got a Universal Touch

Writing Away

I write
To tell myself,
I am still
Sane,
Carry on.

I write
To sift
My thoughts,
The worthy ones
From the
Ugly lot.

I write
To scuba dive
into Memories, and
Swim with it
Like a fish
In a
Dream.

I write,
when
Truth
And Fiction
Blends
Into a
Single malt.

I write,
It consoles
my self,
To know that
few good
Exists
Within.

I write,
It shows me
Beauty is
Wider
Than what
Is
seen.

I write
In the mood for
It,
And in an
iPad
It looks good
To me.

I write,
It reflects
Myself,
Now
Whatever Thing
That might be.
Hmmm.

I write
Of course
to just have
Some fun,
When my
Thoughts
Like
Fallen leaves
Take flight
In the
Imagination breeze.