My dead, over yours

One wrong
Over other wrong
Makes the right answer
A question mark
Children dead
Are children dead.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 26-12-2014)

Happy New Year !

And yes
Happy New Year
May yours too be
A box office hit
Without the
Farah Khan bit.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 26-12-2014)

Clear-sighted and blind

Clear sighted
In our blindness
We celebrate fresh beginnings
Of an old end.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 26-12-2014)

Slower and wobbly

Slow and steady
Win the race
Slower and wobbly
Get drunk
Or grow old
Or both.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 25-12-2014)

Christmas 2014

Holiday cheer
Murders and fear
Hateful exits
Welcome admits
Travel and treats
Home alone retreats
And the sun does rise
Soon after demise
Should I be happy
Equanimous and/or snappy ?

(NID, Ahmedabad / 25-12-2014)

Being Intelligent

One can be tired
Of being intelligent
Or meaning to
Amidst similarly
Stricken.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 24-12-2014)

Conversion

Lets convert
Sanity to madness
Gaiety to sadness
And election drubbings
To wins
And wads of
Badness.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 22-12-2014)

Hawa ka rukh

Hawa ka rukh
Kuch rangeen tha
Aur mein bhi kuch
Yoon hanseen tha

हवा का रुख
कुछ रंगीन था
और मैं भी कुछ
यूँ हंसीन था

(NID, Ahmedabad / 22-12-2014)

You know you are in Kerala when...

You know you are in Kerala
When Karl in Kottayam
Gets full Marx
For currying Meen flavours.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 20--12-2014)

The Right Left

The difficult choice
Is to choose
The right
But firmly in the left
Choice.


(NID, Ahmedabad / 19-12-2014)

Enamoured from Afar

What did God
Give to his own country ?
Non-resident locals
And resident visitors
Both
Enamoured from afar.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 19-12-2014)

Leaving God's own country

Leaving God's own country
For the one
Which currently owns God
And His country.

(Kochi, Kerala / 19-12-2014)

Animals and Humans

Kill
Burn
Blow up
Luckily I was in the wild
Away from the animals.

(Thekkady, Kerala / 17-12-2014)

Blessed on Facebook

Feeling blessed
That facebook
Lets the whole world in
To my itch
For feeling blessed.

(NID Ahmedabad / 11-12-2014)

Convocation

College
Convocation
Vocation
Location
Of the 2-BHK
And the annual
Expense account
Thai holiday.

(NID Ahmedabad / 11-12-2014)

Contradictions

Contradictions
Make us
But not when
We deny
The dilemmas.

(NID Ahmedabad / 11-12-2014)

Throughout Third

Throughout third
That's what I am
Leaving the top
For the ones
Whose mothers had tedious sons
Or daughters
Not that it matters
I always knew I'm great
Not too crooked, not too straight.

(NID Ahmedabad / 11-12-2014)

The Meaning of Life

I was once
Going on a journey
When I paused
For the meaning of life
She was late in coming
And I was in a hurry
So I went ahead
And had fun.

(NID Ahmedabad / 10-12-2014)

I teach MDes, Sir

I make misters of
Of masters
And C minus ones
A-listers
I teach MDes, Sir.

(NID Ahmedabad / 10-12-2014)

True Lies

True Lies
Conversations with
Assorted parents
Of sorted out wards.

(NID Ahmedabad / 10-12-2014)

Teaching Is

Is teaching an art
Or science
Or a job
None of the above
For those who teach
Often aim to reach
Besides
Where knowledge lies
In everyday life, stupid !

(NID Ahmedabad / 10-12-2014)

Photos clicked

Photos
Clicked
Filed
Saved
From one.

(NID Ahmedabad / 09-12-2014)

Anger Management

If anger management
Didn't have management
At its backside
I would have let go
Of its front.

(NID Ahmedabad / 09-12-2014)

Group Photos

Group photos
Are for individuals
To assert their
Hard earned herd.

(NID Ahmedabad / 09-12-2014)

What is Design

So what is design
It is actually a sign
That quietly go destroy
The welfare state ploy
Let market do the thing
Of profit and its zing
Let design come and make
The mammaries of the fake.

(NID Ahmedabad / 09-12-2014)

Some heavy thoughts

If you weigh
Life
Seriously
You would be offloaded
For someone
Lighter

(NID Ahmedabad / 09-12-2014)

Acting

My throat
Is acting up
Mistakenly assuming
I make films.

(NID Ahmedabad / 09-12-2014)

Re-birth Redux

If I were to be
Born again
I would choose to be
Me
Why bother others.

(NID Ahmedabad / 09-12-2014)

Tears of Joy

Who's afraid of tears
Its just that I can't
Laugh as much.

(NID Ahmedabad / 06-12-2014)

Those who cannot, Teach

Those who cannot
Teach
Those who can
Learn
How to fast-forward earn
Cash, privilege and cheer
Out of turn.

(NID Ahmedabad / 05-12-2014)

Graduation

The chairs await
In the winter sun
The business of graduating
To packages, perks
And jerks.

(NID Ahmedabad / 05-12-2014)

1947

1947
Gave independence
To the freedom loving
And the slaves
United in the silence
Of the sins thereafter.

(NID Ahmedabad / 05-12-2014)

No to Yes

It was difficult
To say no
To the yes
Which did not come.

(NID Ahmedabad / 05-12-2014)

Books Wanted

Books Wanted :

01. How To Do Nothing, On A Salary.
02. How To Be Popular While Being A Pain
03. How To Sleep Till Late, And Go To Bed Later
04. How To Be Famous, For Five Nano Seconds
05. How To Teach Them Young Ones, Period
06. How To Dream Of The Sea, On A Mountain

(NID Ahmedabad / 04-12-2014)

Re Membering

Re
Membering
Memories
Is like using an adhesive
Past its prime.

(NID Ahmedabad / 04-12-2014)

The Killer

Animals kill
Usually for food
Men kill
Period.

(NID Ahmedabad / 03-12-2014)

The last time

When was the last time
Last time didn't beget
More such times.

(NID Ahmedabad / 03-12-2014)

The Innocent

I am the victim
Cried the innocent
Looking at
The reflection-free mirror.

(NID Ahmedabad / 02-12-2014)

Lets run away

So as I was saying
Lets run away
Away from this big bad world
To something more
Unsuitable.

(NID Ahmedabad / 02-12-2014)

An over-hyped piece of plastic sheet

First came the sound
Then the word
Then the image
Which
After a lot of plodding
Moved
Hence proved
Cinema is an over-hyped piece of
(Plastic) sheet.

(NID Ahmedabad / 01-12-2014)

To teach is to know

To teach
Is to know
That knowledge
Cannot be taught
Prejudice can.

(NID Ahmedabad / 01-12-2014)

My sense of humour

(1)

My sense of humour
Is best understood
By me.

(2)

My sense of humour
Is best understood
In jest.

(3)

My sense of humour
Is best
Misunderstood.

(NID Ahmedabad / 01-12-2014)