Today I was returning from a poetry reading driving on route 680 It was a real hot day I had my windows down just as I passed the Automall Parkway A smell pierced in as usual uninvited Not that of a skunk that was ran over by wheels Nor was it anything else I can explain but a very familiar one for a moment I thought … Continue reading Masala Biscuits – Kerala Style
It is important to believe in what you can do; it is also important to know what you cannot do.. but it is very interesting that you swim in this filth of disbelief and ignorance of who you are…. You eat what is thrown at you and claim that you are never hungry…. and you live only in the stories of your falsified existence…. when … Continue reading To Someone Unknown
I have a small box in which I hide my cries so the world would not hear Yesterday after so many years I opened it, and you won’t believe, So much laughter that I never knew existed jumped out and escaped. The weight of the mortal pains from yesteryears; The fear of the imminent pain to come and go in the future both have no meaning … Continue reading Live Today
I just read that the Royal baby Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana does not have a poem. How sad… sorry, How wicked :)….. Carol Ann Duffy the UK poet laureate declined to write a poem commemorating the birth of the new royal baby.. The spectator readers are being called to write one in a competition How primitive does one go to prove a point And I wish to … Continue reading The Royal Baby does not have a Poem and now there is a competition for one – WTF
And there will be a thought that I will dip in a pot of boiling water and simmer… I will relish the aroma like I have never experienced before May be it is the same thought that has passed my mind on some past date I forgot that to mark on my calendar a birthday, a tragedy, a moment of pride I don’t know I … Continue reading Poetry, I love You – Poem#30 – National poetry Month
Have you ever thought of life on the other side of the barbed wire I have not; I have never been behind one that is what I believed till I figured it was not really true we are always on one side or the other of a barbed wire We just don’t accept that we are free when someone else is loosing theirs we don’t … Continue reading Toxic Barbed Wire Dreams – Poem#29 – National Poetry Month
“Your social skills deplete When you always make love with the keyboard and ejaculate into the social media nothing beautiful comes out you are not creating life here” Someone told me this as I was doing exactly the same thing “It is always the same old same old till you turn old..” he said He then gave me a big lecture; There was a time when … Continue reading Social Media Life – Poem#28 – National Poetry Month
Depression is a wicked bastard invisible, faceless, shadowless; spineless You cannot see it, touch it, dodge it, bear it A scoundrel feeding on you little by little making you hungry for something that you cannot define It exists when you think and when you don’t think; it appears on your face It sleeps when you sleep but wakes you up during your sleep It tricks … Continue reading Depression Oppression – Poem#27 – National Poetry Month
Make your kid a Genius If that was an advertisement you saw and your eyes popped out, three things are clear First, you are not a genius Second, your child is not a genius Third, you think being genius is everything in life I differ; I can; because I am no genius What does genius mean? Dictionaries say a ‘genius’ is A person with exceptional … Continue reading Make your kid a Genius – Poem#25 National Poetry Month
When I go to sleep I wonder if the dream today will take me to the other side of sleep I get to the other side of the bed, A different room in the house, and even the street but never on the other side of sleep When I got to shower I expect to get out clean but when the water gushes from the shower … Continue reading My Polarity Check – Poem#24 – National Poetry Month
Vinod Narayan 