A walk in the sunshine A walk in the rain A walk at sunrise A walk at sunsets today A walk with someone you know A walk with a stranger A walk into the past A walk into someone’s life A walk to get far away A walk to get closer A walk is all it takes for you to think to make sense of … Continue reading A Walk – POEM #19 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019
Hate is bad…. but I wonder if dislike is OK maybe it is…. there are some dislikes you cannot avoid even some people…you just cannot like anymore… I know Love is the answer… but sometimes in life, we all become so incapable incapable of love because to love you need to forget.. forget yourself… the past… even forget that you ever existed… the only choice.. … Continue reading But Dislike – POEM #18 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019
We live in cities made in the eye of a village first blinding it of communities and then telling there is darkness. We live in cities made with the soul of mankind first ripping it off the body and then freezing it in time. We live in cities made out of skin of once alive animals first taming them to be friends and then skinning … Continue reading We live in cities – POEM #16 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019
You cannot argue with ignorance… you will be drained… You can only fight it with silence and in that silence let it suffocate.. once it is gone you will know…. Ignorance is not just the lack of knowledge it is emotionless lifeless.. like the mannequin of the masses… Continue reading Mannequin of the Masses – POEM #15 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019
They barged in and shouted “What are you eating..?” A small kid looked at an adult a half chewed piece in her mouth.. aghast… at what was happening before anyone could say anything…. the beating had began… Some cried… for some the voice just did not come out… what was eaten just grumbled in the stomach like an uncommitted crime facing judgement When the beating … Continue reading Beef & Cow Politics – POEM #13 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019
In the morning when you wake up what do you do first Take a deep breath? jump out of bed? look around? just lie down? feel who is next to you? bury your face more into the pillow? search for your blanket? curse in your mind? smile? cover your face? You can do anything you like it does not matter… but just remember there are … Continue reading In the Morning – POEM #10 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2019
A silkworm weaves a day into a brilliant example and a man wears it on his body, showing off his evolution…. The silkworm chuckles; and continues to weave a night… the man picks it up and looks at it unable to see anything he removes his day and checks his body the silkworm smiles… Continue reading Silkworm Poem #3 National Poetry Month 2019
When words are born premature… converted to images not still but moving.. moving images… Somewhere in that journey we lose ourself.. But today… this one day NO.. this whole month… We need to get back to ourself for we can feel ourself alone… in an empty vessel.. we need words to fill it up with Some lives are like that.. they lose the meaning when … Continue reading Poetry #1 – Welcoming National Poetry Month 2019
It is not for me to bother but yet I decided to climb; and as the clouds descended every step I found myself alone…. I have not dreamt in a paradise sky my earth has been too strong pulling me down my sleep has walked out on me and yet I cannot wake up…. Today I know that even a drop can mean fatal….. and … Continue reading As I murmur…….
Something woke me up.. a familiar face flashed before me, one that I could not place in my mind’s album.. but very familiar…. I got up and walked over to the living room…. before I could switch on the lights, my eyes caught the sight of a part of Bengaluru…. through the window opening into the sit out…. I had to step out and take … Continue reading Waking Up
Vinod Narayan 