The city lay, tired and resigned Roads-thin thighs-not enough Barricades placed in the middle The consensual violation unrelenting Raising, piling, building, structuring The skyward growing erections The cramp, the crowding, the narrowing The frantic thrusts of the harried bustle Waiting for the orgasm of liberation The sleek blur of long tailed engines Whizzing overhead in […]
Category: Poems
The happiness treadmill
Happiness, o, elusive happiness, How I wish myself, its coziness The pursuit of this subtle quality, For a country’s constitution, a vanity. Whether the pursuit will remain just pursuit, No thinker dare state, whether Hindu or Jesuit. When you receive, beyond your expectation, You begin to experience, a momentary elation But the ratio of expectation […]
Teenage days
The grass was green And mornings, quite cool The noon more kind And I – a young fool Earth was more, and concrete, less Talk was sweet, touch was a fuss To wink was naughty, kiss- a big mess And I was happy with less Elders- as annoying We – more forgiving Skin thinner but […]