Loneliness does not bite, it kills youLike smoking 15 cigarettes a daySmokers add 15 moreNon Smokers you are still smoking Funny times we live inConnected to thousands onlineStill feeling lonely insideAnd yet we don’t open up We don’t let people knoWe think it is a crime to be aloneThat only we are alone in the world Alone in the crowdAre they all like us ?why … Continue reading Ask Help; Be a Help NPM2023 7/30
The water is boilingthe kettle is whistlingBut there is no one to hear itThe world has gotten so cold In coldness we see through peopleWe see the madness they hideWe see the sadness they shedWe see them like they see themselves It is not the Kettle’s faultthat no one is there is hearIt will stop after sometimewhen there is no more water The fire will … Continue reading The Kettle is Whistling NPM2023 6/30
Out of all the sunrisesI like the one near my homethe one that you can see through the branchesespecially when I am with her As you sit on a bench outside the tent.both naked, wrapped in a blanketthere is a hot pot of coffee and one cup.we slowly sip one by one as we drink coffee cuddling one anotherwe feel like kissingwhen you feel you … Continue reading The Sunrise I like most NPM2023 5/30
There is a new leaf that fallsNot from a tree, from a lifeNot a forest but a familya life Fallen leaves don’t leave tracesThey don’t expose the trees.Fallen lives don’t expose the familythey just wait for their turnto be forgotten Continue reading The New Leaf NPM2023 4/30
It is a terrible painIt comes from the corner of the roomIt has droopy eyesIt seems to know that I don’t care It does not have any feet.Just a wheel kind of thingattached to its backIt does not understand language It must have been there for a long timeIt could as well be a million years oldI don’t know if it is aloneDid it have … Continue reading It is there ! NPM2023 3/30
Did I tell you that I am bored?I know it sounds weird.because being bored is not a thing anymoreIt is something of the pastAll Boredoms are now buried in the mobile apps But yes I feel bored at times.No, Not when the Mobile phone loses its chargeWith Mobile Phone next to me.. yesI feel bored I have tried to analyze this boredomAnd it took me … Continue reading A Boredom from the past NPM2023 2/30
They say words can dryLike it is some kind of riverMany words strung together can make a poem.Then isn’t a poem a river of words? Sometimes words dry inside the mouth.Sometimes they also die in there… What is the life of a word?does it die when it is the last word in a poem?If a word is used in a poem, does it mean it … Continue reading Words and Poems National Poetry Month 2023 NPM2023 1/30
Here is where I belong.But I have also been there.Not just here… May be ‘anywhere’ changes it’s spaceand time…. When I am there.. I am here..This is where I belongNot Everywhere… just here. But do I share my ‘here’ with them?Them…..The others who are not like me..Can my ‘here’ and their ‘here’ be the same?Is there an ‘our’ here anytime ?Or will I always be … Continue reading Here and There
Are you Silent…? Have you always been this way…. indifferent, inconsiderate… uncaring…. distant.. Or are you being patriotic? But Silence is not patriotism Disallowing Discrimination is patriotism Speaking for those who cannot voice is Patriotism Being human towards other beings is Patriotism Rest is what you call Fascism…. May be you are Silent… because Today you feel they are not coming for you But there … Continue reading Silence – A poem for Mute Spectators
I had a waste basket full of trash paid bills marketing materials used tissue paper… a broken toy a banana peel a hand written note to do lists and then there was a pen I am not sure if it fell in there or it had reached it’s end of life… Sometime people also are like these pens… They jump into trash way early.. there … Continue reading The Pen Life – POEM #30 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019
Vinod Narayan 