Words

Words
Have a way
With words
Soliciting
A time on this earth
And a life that is
Words' worth.

(Kolkata / 31-01-2015)

Kolkata

01

Being
Where one had once been
Is a joyful exercise
Exercised in sorrow.

(Kolkata / 29-01-2015)

02

Should one be happy
That things have changed
For the better
Or should one be sad
That things have changed ?

(Kolkata / 30-01-2015)

03

Kolkata
Can I say I love you
With bit of a broken heart
And eyes that selfishly seek
The bare bones of survival
In place of towering, well-fed concrete
Cold, sold and erased.

(Kolkata / 30-01-2015)

04

When decades collide
On a street not that wide
Of memories that ride
The flyovers that hide
The decades that collide.

(Kolkata / 30-01-2015)

05

Much has changed
But not of this
The colonial queen
Still habits
The open green
And marble of yore
Kolkata moves
And stays like before.

(Ahmedabad / 01-02-2015)

Forgive me, for I have sinned

Well done
Said the Lord
You lived right
Till the end
Forgive me, I said
For I have sinned
I wanted to live left
Illiberal and unopened
To greed and gain
And umbrellas in rain.

(Ahmedabad / 27-01-2015)

Leaving on a jet plane

Just boarded a jet plane
Approximately know
When I will be back again
Behave, I ate too slow.

based on 'I am leaving on a jet plane'

(Ahmedabad / 27-01-2015)

Some days

Days
Turn into years
Years to lives
Lived or scorned
Lost and mourned
On some
Days.

(Ahmedabad / 26-01-2015)

Posting stuff on Facebook

Posting stuff on Facebook
Is like talking to a wall
You never know
What is on the other side
Of vanity.

(Ahmedabad / 26-01-2015)

Re public day

01

Patriotism is
Recognising our neighbour's right
To the same
Happy Republic day
May it live to see
National boundaries buried at sea
And people, of hate, set free.

02

Re public day
Time to make public again
The deeds that were done since
To undo the day.

(Ahmedabad / 26-01-2015)

Oba maa !

01

He is here ! He is here !
All is sorted out with dear dad
Its well known by now how
The West (and East, North, South, for that matter)
Was taken in, and had.

(Ahmedabad / 25-01-2015)

02

Obama ji has come home
And we are well prepared
With paper in our loos
And visas in our views
Long live USA
Long live khakra, dhokla, what say?

(Ahmedabad / 26-01-2015)

Warm, well-stocked, wicked

It would have been nice
If life had turned out to be
What the womb promised
Warm, well-stocked
And a little wicked.

(Ahmedabad / 24-01-2015)

Like you

I have loved
Like you
And hated
Likewise
I have tried
To be unlike
And less wise
Like you

(Ahmedabad / 23-01-2015)

Company

We seek company
In order
Not to be alone
In order to be lonely
In company.

(Ahmedabad / 23-01-2015)