He stood in front of the vast canvas As large as him, No larger than him Every color crisscrossed meaningfully Stopping and merging with others at will He sat down on the lonely viewing bench Pinning his eyes on the colorful maze He longed to get inside the artists mind To see the creativity beyond the colors The colors slowly melted away And strokes of … Continue reading Painting Whispers
You prove the wretchedness you bear in you But you can’t break us with your devilry The human in us is stronger than the devil in you We will hunt you, find you and punish you for sure We will defend our right to peace and law And not let your actions break our unity We might differ in the way we worship But united … Continue reading To The Responsible
I trusted you and see what happened I was born to you and now dead to you Why would fate be so partial? I had to go and you stand smiling If justice hears only those who are alive Where would the dead go for justice? Was that smiling a sense of relief? Or was it revealing who was guilty? I know I am gone … Continue reading Guilty or Not guilty?
When I saw them play I knew what I had lost When they talked to open space I knew my imagination was dead I went to them and asked Who are you guys talking to? They said there was a dragon on my left side Trying to eat the fairy on my right I looked both sides surprised as an adult When my little one … Continue reading Dragon Slayer
Poetry gives your life back to you The life that you abandoned on the busy street The life that you let people trample on The life that you lost in the corporate corridors Poetry gives that life back to you Poetry tells you that you are more More than what the mirror can ever show you More than what you can see in other’s eyes … Continue reading Why Poetry?
Siblings, connected by parents Cousins, connected by blood Friends, connected by fate Life made complete by all three Now years after knowing each one The difference seems so absurd They are all one and the same A shower when drought hits my life The sign of light when lost in the dark Every moment has their signature on it Continue reading Siblings, Cousins & Friends
People with more Always the most miserable People with less Think others are Happy Equally miserable Continue reading People
Love forbidden Tried a million times Always caught Cautioned every single time Still tempting Continue reading Forbidden Love
Shout at it; get angry, the world deserves it Raise your eyebrows till they notice you Do good till they drop doing bad Don’t let them say you are too old And don’t let them say you are too young You are always young and old enough To lead the world and bring the change Shout at it; get angry, the world deserves it Shout … Continue reading Shout at it; Get angry, the world deserves it
He picked it up from the floor it lay Looked straight into its beaten face That still bore marks of its broken past He said to all “This is finished, find a new one” Born to wander in the open wild It was caught and caged by clogged minds They flogged and bruised the life in it Till it appeared born again and half dead … Continue reading Echoes of Captivity
Vinod Narayan 