You know why I never wanted to buy
A flat under shadow of the red rock.
He shows me fear in handful of dust.
Who wants to find fear in a handful ?
(Following T.S.Eliot’s “The waste Land”)
Interruptus
Who are these people lying lumped up
On wedding floor with legs intertwined
And with their dreams between them?
Why are they interrupting the wedding?
Now the eleventh
In twelve on bench in an argument
Somewhere, in gated community,
Why is a twelfth man missing sun
And now the eleventh and so on?
Dear uncle you make me cry
You & I laugh same moments.
I forget this thick green paint.
This paint makes me look silly
As I dance darkened eyebrow.
It is tough to improvise action
Guessing what a play is about.
Good for the squirrels
It is mangoes all the way down
Make sure they aren’t overripe.
Once they ripen in night’s mist
The mangoes fall to be picked.
They are good for the squirrels
But not for the grandma pickle.
Register
Squirrels are welcome in mists.
They hold 3 lines on their back
And lift their bodies each time,
They like to register small lives.
All things orange
There are dyings, like a poet points out.
Here is orange ,room awash with smell.
A new sun is peeling rind , little by little.
All things turn orange , body and smell.
(Reading Derek Mahon’s poem “Everything is going to be alright”)
What happens in the gazebo
I am not against August, as rain
Sprinkled a little on the gazebo
Where some old fondly recalled
Palm trees that bore heavy fruit
But now fruit falls like light rain.
We are after all in city’s muddle.
Staying calm
Will the buildings live peacefully
On such semi-precious names?
A woman who sits among them
With skyscrapers achieving sky
Will she stay calm with her fruit
And flowers for gods in blocks?
Semi-precious stones
Kids on way to school find hard
To memorise blocks with stones
As stones are beautifully named
Opal ,jade,quartz & aquamarine.
Will the buildings live peacefully
On such semi-precious names?
Fractions 