Image: Gomathi Mohan Intro: As one sits in the icy waters, watching the mighty Ganges, gurgling and splashing, flowing and bending for miles on end, a poem takes shape. A TIMELESS ESCAPADE Flowing, coalescing, glissading from a cascade, Directing centuries of trade, Lifeline on which civilizations operate; A liquid testimony that’s seen innumerable seasons pass by, From freezing ice to
» Read moreIntro: I am woken up at midnight and put on a flight. Received at the airport, I am taken downtown in a van. From there to my destination on a bicycle. I get to repeat this everday. Who am I? forms the rest of the story!
» Read moreIntro: A deep felt desire for the young ones to grow at a pace we all grew in, enjoying other things along the way and thinking, observing, learning, un-learning, doing by themselves, with their own refreshing ways and means, originality intact. Wish we adults tampered less with their growth. A prayer on behalf of all the young ones!
» Read moreIntro: A thought followed by a question had been troubling the poet for quite sometime. Sets about to find the answer and comes across many substantiating facts that confirm his belief. No matter how falsehoods are spreading with ferocity, aided by money and muscle power, Ultimately, “Truth Alone Triumphs”! Does Truth Ever Die Does truth ever die? Or a
» Read moreThe Act Of Love Circles that flash with pleasures of fire, Fire that shoots to bowels and brain; Circles of soft and slippery pleasure, Circles that fill and circles that drain. Circles touching with sinewy softness, Softness as hard as ramrod or stake; Circles that sweep to planet’ry heavens, Circles to dream as if never to wake. Circles as smooth
» Read moreTrying to forget but mind is independent of thought, of will Believing, seeing, memories forever Memories conceived in realms beyond human reach or touch So much, so much, too much for mortal man and soul Growing old, watching the sun go down on time Bursting embers, red glow, blotting out human existence, being Born of nothingness, incomplete, never real then, a
» Read moreI feel lucky, I feel brave I see stars, skies full of laughter Full of love and life, beauty, blood and stone Seed born of man, sea of being, bring it back to me Bring me on, ever closer, come closer, wish for, kiss for, hold me for You know what for, yearning for love, love love love, hold
» Read moreI am therefore I am But do I exist, in what is existence This realm of being, this being all there is and not And what of Am, what of Not To think is a journey, a curse, a gift A scene of being, of believing of believing in what, believing I am ? If I am, then what
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