I took half day off cooked a few delicacies as authentic as my poor skills can perform the table was neatly arranged as neatly my cluttered mind could do first she came and then after some time he came like there was nothing new glasses were filled they rattled cheers without spilling a drop laughs, talks and laughs again time rolled into the night Life … Continue reading Serving a Losing Dinner – National Poetry Month 2016 Day-28
see, hear, feel the dew drop singing trying to tell us the forgotten tale of a drought that turned man against man when the darkness cries in the belly of the animal man lights up the cave the desert buries its heroes next to the anti-heroes while victims mourn for no one babies think technology gave them birth, while parents search for the ON button Continue reading Variations of a world – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day27
He opened the door and walked out he had two poems with him a poem of pain in his left pocket and a poem of hope in the right pocket in the back pocket he kept a letter he walked at a pace he had forgotten for so long the road did not know how to tell him the way so he went about look … Continue reading Poetry under the neon lights – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day26
Poetry month is not complete without a haiku, or a few haikus beaten in life now silent the broken drum old sweaters play cupboard games awaiting winter Skip walking today and tomorrow run for life You can decide fair enough It’s my haiku Continue reading Haikus – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day25
The little box of chocolates I was denied as a kid has grown so big burdening and obstructing an already obscure adulthood Chocolates colored with little hands wrapped into rainbow colored papers by little fingers that aimed to one day draw a map on the clouds Maps that can take you places, but then you let that sweet turn into bitterness and slowly savor them all you … Continue reading My Little Chocolate Box – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day24
When it is time you find it difficult but then some things are tough like taking a thorn from you leg when you are a kid it pains more than how much it hurt when struck but you have no choice you have to go over the pain to reduce the past hurt life gives you things and then you lose it a nature of … Continue reading When the time comes – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day23
It is the childhood that walks next to us it tries hard to hold our hand and walk but we are the adulthood, we know better we shrug it away and run the childhood stops behind and shouts out “where are you running to?” adulthood is a master of deception deception of oneself more than others it just shouts without looking back “You slow me … Continue reading Catching up with Childhood – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day22
Don’t let the bells tell you how to ring in life; bells don’t live Wait after you close the tap there is still a drop ready to call Do not point a finger at them they are blind to what you do walk on them if you wish they will forgive you you you beg But never walk on their dreams because dreams are not … Continue reading What You Want – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day21
I live in the body of an unfullfilled dream a dream someone saw but failed to take action on the wings were there but sleep was not enough for them to grow fully and fly free I saw someone in the body of a fulfilled dream But there was nothing much in it after all dreams are lost when achieved then on I never cared … Continue reading As The Body Dreams – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day20
In a puddle as an ant struggled to get to the land I kept a leaf next to it slowly pulled it to the side I could not see; nor will I ever know if the ant raised its eyes and thanked. Of all the thousands of ants I might have knowingly and unknowingly executed this one act seemed to make me free. But We … Continue reading The (ANT)iHUMAN World – National Poetry Month 2016 – Day19
Vinod Narayan 