Tuesday 26 October 2021

Damn!



Rivers rushed and rose

off their course

All the swollen dams

be goddamned!

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[The poem is an extract from the collection of micropoems, Fireflies.]

Monday 18 October 2021

When memory floods...


PC: ANI

Mountains crumbled
as forests drowned
and floods tumbled
from town to town.

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[This poem is from the collection of micropoems, "Fireflies".  The poem was written during the time of the devastating floods in Kerala in 2018 . The photograph is a recent one, clicked during the torrential rains in 2021. The relevance of the poem, unfortunately, continues.]

Sunday 10 October 2021

Lamppost


Bharati Varrier



I could see the light
in the night, but not the way
and I went astray.

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[This ekphrastic haiku was first published in Spillwords.com. The photograph was clicked by Bharati Varrier somewhere on the streets of Goa.]

Sunday 3 October 2021

The Still Thirsty Crow



 

The crow hangs around the eaves today. Just as he had done the last morning. Yesterday he had slipped his beak into the rain gutter to take a sip of the previous night’s rain. Today he’s prancing along the trough to see if there’s any water – here, there or just around the corner. Well, no. Today is not his lucky day.

He flew in to this neighbourhood just a few days ago. It's a kind of homecoming. He had flown away from here way back when the pigeons had taken over these roofs. Strangely, the pigeons are nowhere in sight these days.

The crow wakes up from his reverie. He slants his gaze into the eaves trough once again. Could there be some drops caught at the corner? Or near the spout? Just enough so he could throw in the much-fabled pebbles? Then the water might rise a bit. It just might! But, no, there’s not even a drop. For, it had not rained last night.

Strange are the seasons nowadays. They used to span the year. Now they come and go as they please, every day. The rain was pelting the roof just the other night. And today the entire trough is dried up. Now, where can he find some water to wet his throat? Wherever the pigeons find it, perhaps. Where are the pigeons, by the way?

Fall was yesterday
Summer had its way last night
It might rain tonight.

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