Drunkard

Get him more drunk,
Lest this human hindered world
Turns too tipsy
For him to stand.

Still so young he blooms, Lord
Make him older then -
Lest this human hindered world
Fails to carry him with ease.

Words of rain and wind.

Mellow day in green
I owe this to you.

Rain-drenched dawn
When I saw your face.

Light of infancy eluding my face
Girl, I like you.

Beside sun-drenched morning, lingers sky
Steer your eyes toward me --

If I so ogle, let
My eyes make a river.

A river which by moonlit nights
Turns into a deer.

Let silence only know
Whisperings of deer.

Wherein silence cradled -
Along wandering currents.

Fault with the ripples? - No !
Lay your palm in the air.

An airy game? You must be kidding.
Let me watch, from this earth of mine.

All clarity in earth? -- Perhaps!
Come closer then.

Closer? -- I deem not!
Far, farther to rivers and seas.

Sea is but salty
Not inclined - even to touch.

You can touch the river --
But, if it turns dry?

Dry bed - all sandy.
Pour water ,touch the wet sand.

Thrust of that pouring
Will drown the entire neighborhood.

Crossing this neighbourhood you meet the village
I went once, randomly wandering.

Around shelves of the village
Rivers slept serene.

Beneath the river lies
A bed of sand and gold.

Will you die drowning
In your quest for gold?

Alright, let the forces drown me
I will float sooner.

Where to drift floating?
Wings - I will get.

Will name them parting grasses -
Golden grasses.

And I'll whisper, "Listen,
Be more gentle.

There will be newer winds
There will be going near -

You. Much easier -
And more easier it will be.

Then, will you love me? Say --
When will you love me? "

The More loving one

Your voice, your eyes
..your hands, your lips..
Our silences, our words..
Light that goes..
..light that returns
A single smile between us
In quest of knowledge
I watched night create day..
..while we seemed unchanged.
O beloved of all,
Beloved of one alone -
Your mouth silently promised
To be happy.
Away, says hate;
Closer, says love.
A caress leads us from
Our infancy.
Increasingly I see
the human form
..as a lover's dialogue.
The heart has but one mouth
Everything by chance
All words without thought
Sentiments adrift
Men roam the city
A glance, a word
Because I love you, everything moves
We must advance to live,
Aim straight ahead toward those you love
I went towards you
Endlessly toward the light
If you smile, it enfolds me
All the better.
The rays of your arms,
Pierce the mist.

I remain surrendered

I remain surrendered unto darkness
Beneath eyelids that never parted
Light lingers lonely and sly within
Secretive abyss of darkness.
Limitless blue of the sea plays
With a day abundant in sun-drenched winds
Young boys and girls merely dance in muse.

Eyes shut now, paying homage to the dark
Memories like gems seduce my mind
Many treasures remain immutable on my palm.
Beneath eyelids that never parted
Stars lit up, flashing now and then
In a dense dungeon of granite darkness.
Every moment of the lost desert
Bathes in the pool. While the forest
Canopies the barren meadow in its shadow.

And I remain surrendered.
Beneath eyelids submerged in dark,
Lonely light continues to linger.

Journal

Evening

All the songs i see in your eyes
All the luminosity i hear in your words
Just merely in dollops of pride
Spread light on this evening.

This evening knows you were here
That you're to dawn, this evening knows not.
As if in the blues of valediction
You and I know each other.

Dusk

Dusk lingers merely in its dark mind
And the night rarely gets you
As my mortal body does.
Blood red - wiped off the sky,
The darkness in my blood.
Night knows the blood - the blood donor -
The meaning of her mysterious life,
Amongst many little whispers of sleep.

Ten days that shook the world

I got my first letter, a boy of fourteen
An eighth grade student, older like a year
The girl as if sheltered to my empty stomach
Like writa, a hunger impassable, but rice.
Not the baked bread crumbs, not fish, neither hominid.
Encumbered to the throat of an enormous flower - I remained
My head sprang out, seeking endlessly all and sundry hours.

Covetous young boys in torn shorts would incite me
My prejudiced hunger watched them gobble in vanity

My body opened a million mouths of hunger, and I roamed

Around alleys far off , my mind a juvenile kingdom - framed

My body to ten different crystals, unvanquished in ten days

That immortality will become the little boy of fourteen

Unerring efflux of writa's aroma - ten days that shook my world.

Figurine

This noon of death I sleeved
Your figurine glittered, poured the all-acquired -
Slying veil of time, murky stellar dust
Depleted on a woman like you.
Tired feet stood on peripheries
Where the ephemeral few ignited
Their leases from their alienation
And heard distinct-discrete arias
Lurking unrest of time past , time you.
And amid such a feast of outsides
I saw immortality of raging sun.

The entangled blue of the sky, the star gestured galaxies
The still grasses of moondance - I indulge in entirely.
Even you're not the pause
Another terminal figure of abyss
Constantly melting to jostles , embracing
Ring of debris, dust and catharsis.

This familiar ephemeral noon , your figurine
Not submissive to the wrinkled tides
But time submits to you - you the death carrier
Silhouetted; today you are dead.