What name do I call you today
What name do I call
you today
- Inanna, Nefertiti, Aphrodite, Saraswati
The blue and whiteness
of the sky in your body
What terrible beauty surrounds you today
Flying from one sky to another
From one horizon to another
The clouds are moving in the waves of your hair
Kadam flowers are spreading light with your touch
Sparrows are chirping on the cornice
The standard love puzzle is coming down from the sky
What name do I call
you today
- Inanna, Nefertiti, Aphrodite, Saraswati
Limerick
When
necessity surrenders to love,
Light begins to focus on its stage at exactly the right moment,
Red and blue bulbs lighting up one after the other.
There
is silence for a while;
The wooden floor suddenly trembles
With the loud bluster of many people,
The incident taking place in a flash.
Scenes
change, one after another,
Life’s most difficult moments hidden
Beneath the brightest of lights,
And words scribbled on the slate of suffering
Remain on the reverse page of life.
Fear of Death
Can
you remember?
Once we were lost
Near the Himalayas in the morning
When everyone was plunged in deep slumber.
We woke up through the insistence of a divine impulse
And set out for an untrodden path,
Entering into a terrible state.
I felt as if an angel had sent an invitation
From the highest peck
And we were pursuing his commandment
As if we were two mesmerised beings.
Your beauty in the morning
Inspired me to follow you, fascinated.
We walked forward towards another marvelous monster.
My apprehension robbed me of my good sense,
But at your touch, I regained my senses.
Every touch of yours took me near the Himalayas repeatedly.
You asked ‘Oh! Poet, are you afraid, afraid of death?
‘There will be a splendid death in these Himalayas.’
I
was afraid, terrified, as if I
Had wandered in the realm of death
On the wings of my fancy.
When everybody was deeply asleep on that morning,
Only you and I
Were standing there on the white snow,
Invoking death.
- Inanna, Nefertiti, Aphrodite, Saraswati
What terrible beauty surrounds you today
Flying from one sky to another
From one horizon to another
The clouds are moving in the waves of your hair
Kadam flowers are spreading light with your touch
Sparrows are chirping on the cornice
The standard love puzzle is coming down from the sky
- Inanna, Nefertiti, Aphrodite, Saraswati
Light begins to focus on its stage at exactly the right moment,
Red and blue bulbs lighting up one after the other.
The wooden floor suddenly trembles
With the loud bluster of many people,
The incident taking place in a flash.
Life’s most difficult moments hidden
Beneath the brightest of lights,
And words scribbled on the slate of suffering
Remain on the reverse page of life.
Once we were lost
Near the Himalayas in the morning
When everyone was plunged in deep slumber.
We woke up through the insistence of a divine impulse
And set out for an untrodden path,
Entering into a terrible state.
I felt as if an angel had sent an invitation
From the highest peck
And we were pursuing his commandment
As if we were two mesmerised beings.
Your beauty in the morning
Inspired me to follow you, fascinated.
We walked forward towards another marvelous monster.
My apprehension robbed me of my good sense,
But at your touch, I regained my senses.
Every touch of yours took me near the Himalayas repeatedly.
You asked ‘Oh! Poet, are you afraid, afraid of death?
‘There will be a splendid death in these Himalayas.’
Had wandered in the realm of death
On the wings of my fancy.
When everybody was deeply asleep on that morning,
Only you and I
Were standing there on the white snow,
Invoking death.