verses through ananda
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
A Late Retreat
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Evening
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Questions……
Like pitch black scarecrows on fields of green absurdity
One or Two or Three
Here and There
Questions stand…..
Apparently Innocuous, flaccid but truly more potent
Than you and me
Than all of us combined
Than life or death or life and death combined…
Questions will always find their way….
Questions will always demolish frontiers
Sometimes in the guise of a half eaten apple
Sometimes in the form of a rusty old wrecked car
On a corner of a hectic avenue
Questions will shock you
As you walk on paths
Strewn with deceased foliage and plastic bags
Illuminated with measured neon lights
Questions will follow you like fluorescent companions
Questions will never leave you alone
Whether in the air-conditioned hours detained in pigeon coops
Or in disdainful evenings and tea breaks
When you close your eyes and look at the mirror
Only to learn that no image is perfect
Questions will thrive everywhere
Swarms of Questions will cover you
Like Flies
Like Fantasies
As you navigate from Question to Question
You Befriend Questions
You Fight with Questions
You Sleep with Questions
And then….
Questions are born from Questions…..
The Answers have always been there….
It is the Questions that we really seek
(Dedicated to My sisters Goutomi and Sneha, to my friends Biplab, Ayan and Joejo and to my student Aninditaa)
Monday, May 2, 2011
The Rain Came
She was the ground....
Where I stood
Gazing at a catatonic sky
She was also the ground that kept me pinned
And neutral
She hijacked the day
And brought it to the diseased room
My room
She smelled like flavored cobwebs
On the books and the Portraits
Dancing to the rhythm of a prehistoric ceiling fan
Why does flavor always remind me of pink?
Fat pink spiders
And this pink is not the pink of shapely, well toned, jelly filled bubble gums
This pink reminds me of bells and Ferris wheels as well
He came with that pink
An emaciated man wearing a red checkered shirt
He came with a blessing
I was perhaps five or six
And I had squashed a monstrous green chilly between my molars!
This pink
The pink of the spiders
Pink spiders with soft pink fur
Took me to cartons full of old books with no pictures
Sacred pink
Like Snow
I have never seen real snow
Maybe I will never
That means maybe
When we switch fancy dresses
What use would it be?
The rain came at 4'o clock
Such an odd time to come and where?
To my room when she had hidden the day
No, days
She's been doing this for quite sometime
She burst laughing.....
All the pink
Simply Vanished
The rain washed the pink to her T shirt
And I went looking for coffee mugs
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
31st March, 2010
A Sun full of vengeance,
Saturday, February 13, 2010
The Guardian
Fight the moonless night
Walk the skin of the city
Lick the innocence of the air
With my forked tongue....
But when lizards come rushing
Into the realms of my aura...
I run and hide ...
Like a brave man...
I crouch
I smell the armpits of time...
That reek of ancient sins and caricature
And I howl curses at myself
And at my god
Curses of immortality and cosmos
I smell the armpits of time..
And
Pause
For
A
while
And
Look up
And
I pray for Rain
Someone had asked me once,
What are you good at?
I know the answer now...
I am good at prayers …..
And deciphering signs
That speak of the wrath of gods
And the butterflies of Hell...
What am I good at?... What am I? Something about me?
Come
Seek...
And you shall find....
Come and I'll wrap you in my tentacles
That'll keep you warm...
You can bite into my tentacles
And suck out jelly as much you want...
Come
Let me be your exoskeleton
Because once upon a green time,
I had been the deep eyed guardian of light
But the honey in my blood
Is nothing but Jelly now...
Colorless, tasteless
And yet It'll keep you going for a while...
So when lizards and sewer rats come rushing into your galaxy...
Remember the fallen angel....
Whose only dream is to be a guardian deity
Again.....
Or when shameless floods of decay try to force their way
Through the sacred gates of your heart....
Whisper my name
And I'll roam the diameters of your dream
…..I’ll keep you warm and dreaming
For you see…
I am good at prayers
I am good at war
I am good at surviving
And I’m good at reading signs