The reminder
the knock
soft and muffled
mortality
again reminds me
that i should not forget she lurks hidden in every dark nook i pass by
trying to grab at my shadow and make it hers
and i know we have to be
only once
touched
by death’s sly handmaidens
to start tearing apart
painful forlorn process of letting go
everything accumulated
gathered close to our hearts
severing
most painful of all
the ties
with our [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Once again that familiar knock at the door
Posted in Poetry on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Your daughter
Posted in Poetry on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Her father sent me her photograph today
her eyes are yours
mischief, laughter, coal, shooting off specks of fire
there she is with her chocolate smeared smile
hands folded stubbornly across her chest
lips a line, trying hard not to curve in a smile
you and I still friends,
though you are gone
the emotion remains
the yearning in my heart for her
i feel you [...]
Bodhisattva in the basement
Posted in Poetry on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maitreya
you happy, rounded dream of prosperity,
Friend
Bodhisattva
enlightened elevated soul
created by man from plaster of Paris
Vended at red-light crossings
where people, buses, trucks and rickshaws
meet in a cloud of cacophony
and through that haze you smile and smile and smile
your hands thrown up – sheer bliss
holding a gold ingot
which we covet
want to bring home to ferret away in secret [...]
i wish you well but i wish you were free
Posted in Poetry on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The bride Her feet So painted red the toenails And toes and heels and all of her feet Lined with red Of departure To her husband’s home Cutting off blood ties With her father mother sister Forming new bonds Followed by a babe Bonded to her with a bloody umbilical cord To be cut again And again [...]
The universe that existed within me
Posted in Poetry on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When you touched me
I came alive
When you touched me
I was the sparkle
Of a million stars
And the fantastic light tripping
Off the bright mirror surfaces of all the lakes
In this universe
I whirled like the planets
My delighted heart
throbbed with the songs
trilled by a thousand songbirds
I inhaled the incense offered to gods in all the temples of the world
the [...]
Well contrasted
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Darkness sits well on me
pleases me Pigmentation
does not interfere with my breathing
or peace of mind
when my fingers wind around yours
we contrast so pleasingly
My colours could absorb the reflections of your whiteness
and when it’s night
I feel an affinity with its velvetness
Haunting
Posted in Poetry on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I went back some days ago
To look at those lines I wrote
Somewhere deep in my head
Hoping if not all, some of those thoughts had survived
About losing myself
In the world
I so wanted
So lost to me
Not wanting to exist anymore
And before finding myself
Discovering I was gone
Trying to remember
How it was to breathe
And feel myself
Within my skin
Did you [...]
Colour challenged
Posted in Poetry on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My hairstylist picks up strands of hair
disordered by a month of
uncut
distasteful the look
when he flicks through the greys
Colour It, he begs
colour it brown
colour it now
colour it an expensive L’Oreal
I touch my offending colourlessness
so helpless
so not at fault
so a part of me
they’re me now, I tell him
My years and I
We are friends
