SEA

In a jug of beer,

I saw the sea.

Ice floating on sunset water

Reminds me of her diamond smile

Flowing from her siesta body.

The small boats

Swimming on her face,

Shimmering in northern wind

Like a dense bunch of hair.

I love the look

On her tidal calendar,

Each twitch waiting for my arrival,

A thing of beauty

Joy for the moment

And in a moment

I saw the sea…

AN EVENING AFTER RAIN

Seated behind dark horses,

Sun God rained hypnotic gold flowers.

Perfumed earth in an early garland of foul water

Bathed.

Soaked my thirsty lips,

Cob webs of forty days and forty nights

Cleared,

As if by the stroke of a painter’s brush.

My dark heart shrugged

Age old dust and mud.

Emerged it,

Like a princess on a ramp,

Shimmering in all love and good health.

MACHU PICHU

I climbed the height of Machu Pichu

To see your nocturnal play.

Your silver glow

Dancing under the mouths of caves.

My dark skeleton of rock solid stones,

Which make the brown grass

Shimmer in pathos of love;

Savor your glittering thighs;

Made of sweet-smelling-sweat of pains.

My stone-faced-Incan-Angel,

I come to you

Since the beginning of time

To seek truth

In the bosom of rain-soaked-marigold

And to smell your melancholic breath.

I am your wanderer,

The forgotten warrior,

Biblical architect

And you are my

Divine stone face.

ASHVASTHAMA

Come Ashvasthama,

I will make you

My Captain!

I will give you

A place you deserve

From a time

Older than the mountains.

An award

You desire

For the five heads,

I will pay you

Five rose-hearts & five rose-lips

Throbbing for you & chanting you name.

Come,
Be my Captain.

VISHNU SAHASRA NAAM

In the hour of need,

People call you.

Not by one name or two;

But by thousand different names of you.

You,

The wisest of all,

The mightiest and strongest of all,

The pool of seminal fluid,

The birth-place of all deeds;

Resting,

In a deep meditation,

A sleep,

 Heavier than a thousand opium,

A sea of milk,

Snake-bed of silk,

Look to those disciples,

In a half-grin half-smirk pose,

Throw a smile towards them.

Your smile,

The epitome of sublime,

Seems all ironic,

Of all time..

In the hour of need…

DOOR-BELL

At moments inappropriate

You ring

My feet

Assemble my body

Drag me to the door

Your shrill voice

My long hand

On my chest

Eyes closed

Mind pictures

Scent from a mile

The color of her dress

Curves of her neck

Yellow skin

Gold hair

Angle of face

And extent of her smile…

My long hand

On the door knob

My heart-train

Nostrils smoke

Eyes opened

Mind summons

A white sheet

Wraps her scent,

Dress, neck, face

And her smile

Packed

Sent

To a station unknown

Not to return

Until your next call

Next ring

Next turmoil…

My door-bell.

A DEATH

Last Sunday

In the morning

When I saw her

Inside the butcher’s shop

My love died.

That very moment

The edge of the long knife

Fell right on my left rib

Splitting it in two;

Pointed steel

Sharp as her eyes

Poked inside

My blood-red-heart

Popped out,

Drops of love

Dripping all over

Perfumed earth.

My blood-red-heart

Cut to pieces

Each little one

Tossed in mid-air

To feed the dog,

The crow and the eagle

By your

Sweet little hands;

Divinity in your face

Contemplative eyes

Pitied voice.

At a distance

I stood;

Love like sweat

Dripping

Inside and outside,

Dead water

Dark as pantheon

In a spurt from underground

Drowned me

From toe

To head.

AFTER THE FULL MOON

After the full moon

You came.

Dark as a night,

Body of crow,

Teeth like thunder,
mind of Lucifer,

Perched on my sky-light.

You had a pact with the devil

Secret;

Eyes folded,

Threads of love

Pecked me,

My chest,

My genital…

Devoured me.

You flew like the moon;

My remains scattered

For the ungrateful ants,

Denying me a decent burial

A home;

I long for so long

To preserve

Your beak,

Your skin

And the devil in you.

NAILED

The world outside my window

Is a heap of rubble.

Drenched,

Debris of roofs

Hanging from the sky

Which is not more than 30 feet tall.

Drenched,

Clothes and rags

Swinging by ropes

That connect heaven to earth.

With a swivel of wind,

The world outside

Turns upside down.

But

The mirror in my room

Remains unperturbed,

Rigid,

As if nailed…

TOHFA

(To a girl I met in a train)

A gift of God

To this world.

Wintry eyes, Summer dreams...

Moist voice, Hidden laughter-

Hidden screams...

Full of life like a stream.

Filled with dreams

And only dreams…