Child's play

The child sees first rain
Captured in video
The wet smell escapes

Passengers

Train reaches station
Passengers chatting so long
Leave with moments passed

wave

Train running away
Children on the meadow wave
Passengers wave back

A drop [from the son’s diary]

A drop [from the son’s diary]

Mom teaches Chemistry to her son

From her school book, neatly covered in brown paper;

A drop, in the middle of the label

That blurred the year with an off blue splash,

Was that of an ice-cream, she recollects…

‘Time didn’t run away

From the indolent soporific book why,’ she thinks;

A drop wakes her up, turns old in a whiff

In a room, with an impatient son,

Waiting to figure the bonds!

04 June 2014

Said unheard

I am Om Amen

Sounds roaring on the deaf beach

Snails hiding inside

Father, child

Father walks, child runs

To keep pace… child grows…walks still

Holding the old hand

All stars

All stars

Throwing light to sleepwalkers

Buds and seeds awake

closed it firm

closed it firm

Through the pages,

There were stories trapped,

I was reading me, in all of them;

Who are they? I wondered!

In folded time, dressed like me,

Paged for love innocuous like me,

Banished in pen, like me,

How horrid is the link!

If I had thought and lived like them,

Am I their devil or are they my spook?

Where is the link?

I closed the book as a norm,

Looked at nature,

Yes I told I was quite like it,

In a way,

Yet unlike;

I opened the book and closed it again,

With fear and doubt,

A swelter mere, so should I fling?

What is the point I thought,

I am happy to link!

I opened the book, and closed it firm.

This poem is about taking responsibilities. Closing link (done three times in the poem) does not mean closing ties and bonds. However, living a life that has been lived thousand of years ago is something with which the poem doesn't comply. If you remember three shots of Meuresault in 'The Outsider', the first shot was a reaction, as a norm, the two following shots were conscious. It is about taking charge of the action, however sad it is; once one has committed an action, one has to stand by it. Here in this poem, only the third shot (action of closing the book) is done consciously. So when the book is closed for the third time, the poem is taking charge to withstand the discomfort and other consequences without blaming anyone. Closing here is a creative beginning. However, it is open to interpretations.

02 June 2014

Mist

Mist

Moist morning in mist

Meadows trees shiver in lakes

Clouds erase the paint

Eyes open vision vapours

Steps smoke through the way

02 June 2014

Missing

Missing

Rain and the Sun

Playing hide and seek for long

Rainbow on the sky

Rain hats and umbrellas on

A child peeps, hats off

02 June 2014