Some of my poems have the tendency to rhyme, some don't, and most of them are accidental. I like to call these songs without music.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Surreal Trip
And the gentle rain takes its time
Droplets hanging on to the glass window
And sparkling reflections below
A thousand people in the throng
A clock that shouldn't take so long
And the prettiest girl in that place
I held her, a short embrace
A journey that would never end
A road that has no bends
A small pause, serene and calm
A burst of noise shattered the charm
A conversation, a wish come true
A moment that was really new
An hour to remember for a lifetime
And eyes that held me with their shine
A beautiful girl standing in the hall
She speaks of love and peace for all
And eyes they compete with ears
Two steps away, she stood so near
A gentle shake of hand and head
Waving goodbye to a friend
There's no telling when it'd be again
Of when I'd again feel the same
A writer writes a short tale
With willing characters, he can't fail
Under a million parallel lights
He sits down and starts to write
Friday, August 17, 2007
Shrink
But they all turn out to be lies
What you thought ago was wrong
What you thought you had won
They mutilate so you change
Or your mind becomes deranged
There's a suction pump on your head
Which pulls away until you are dead
Thinking is a punishable offense
And so is many times of making sense
And all your ideas are made to shrink
While you are pushed to the brink
What use, if any, is this living
To be like a pulp, a shapeless giving
I wish someone gives me an ax
I wish to chop away at the clacks
I want no part of this rat race
I want to get out of this place
I am brittle now see my cracks
Cause I know I am not what lacks
Friday, July 27, 2007
Pablo's Haze
I finally feel i am on the doorstep
Over the step, there is redemption
I guess I am back to this domain
But it's rolling, with a slight headache
Purple Haze, Pablo's haze
One Shot Two Shot Three Shot Four Shot
My men they let me down
When I asked them to fight
And when they came to it
It was hard seeing their plight
My men they let me down
After the easier task
They become happy to soon
And in false glory they bask
One by one they went
While I stayed cursing them
At the ground under my breath
They handed me my wreath
So I took it up to me
The fight was already lost
And there was no use to continue
Then I made the most
Cause even God failed that day
And my faith is shaken
What use is past pride
When you let yourself taken
Come on my opponent
I still have something for you
I'll hurl my war cry
And here's what I'll do
One for those who failed me
Two for our guide who led us wrong
Three for the people who'll hang us
Four for myself and I'm gone
The Art Of Saying Goodbye
And as life solidifies into a wall
And it's impenetrable and all that
And I'll slowly walk away from it all
Although I can't trust my instincts on this
It might not be true in my mind
But in my heart I know I can move on
And not look back at what's left behind
Now I go onto one last concession
I'll never feel again what I felt then
I'll never be the same, never say it again
But I can't allow myself to run
And she can't accuse me of what I am not
Cause I didn't know the art of saying goodbye
And I don't think I will ever learn it
But I swear I am going to try
And too much has gone in a cliche
I'm now going to change my direction
It's a space-time graph going different
And it's a dangerous personal correction
I hope this is my final ode to you
And as the music fades, so do I
Strain your ears I wont be there
I am learning the art of saying goodbye
The Insanity Just Turned Twenty (Plagarising Mradul)
And no one seems to ask
What I have been up to
The last decade or two
One line for each year
One word for each fear
One verse of mine to call
One time to say it all
I have spent a fifth in love
And a fourth in heaven
And the rest scattered etc
Totalling upto eleven
Do away with numbers I am told
Cause count the numbers and you are old
And do you not understand, magic!
Not comic, realistic and tragic!
To begin with, twenty is not too much
I can have twenty for lunch
And Cant get over the tendency to rhyme
Thats why The Insanity Turned Twenty
Dreamwalker
And he wakes up to save a woman
Her husband is a brutal beast
And she's a beauty, his ill omen
Xavier walks from dream to dream
And the doors he closes are half open
Xavier is now a communist soldier
Trying to sneak away to that pretty woman
Xavier meets a girl on a train
They are going to a ski trip on a mountain
Xavier knows the girl loves him
And she'd always agree to take the pain
Xavier makes her follow him
And acts as if he pays no attention
Xavier dances with another woman
And the girl she seeks intervention
Xavier takes the woman to a cabin
They leave two sets of steps on snow
The girl she follows at a distance
She's lost all choice, has to go
The girl is watching them
Her eyes they look across the window
Xavier ignores her completely
And she slowly gets covered with snow
Xavier is at a funeral
Of the girl he could have loved
Xavier is the last one
To throw a rose in the grave dug
Xavier wakes with the beautiful woman
She is beautiful, but he must betray her
Highway Girl
Or read her mind backwards
Or that she was broke
And had no money or words
Perhaps her lover left her
And she sought no solace
Or she had no lover
And her life was no place
She crouched down on the highway
Waiting for someone to run over
And the good people they veered clear
And their cars turned over
Agnes died behind her wheel
As her car fell in the side
And she did her best, and succeeded
To save the highway girl from her ride
The cars did not touch her
And parted their ways careful
The highway girl got up and left
And went back, alive, sad, beautiful
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The Adventures Of The Ganja Eating Squirrel
Our ruler
She rules by proxy
The report's autopsy
Turvy five years are nothing
She's got her power
Like all the kings had
They call it people's
I call her inheritance
Her dynasty it rules
And she's followed
And she's got rubber
Stamping on the papers
And all this happens
While our media
It does its research
On the Ganja eating squirrel
Now see-
-see how it's undone
When you press that button
On the day of election
You chose-
Between the lesser
Of the two evils
You lose your heart and all
Cause it's not fair
They plot in dungeons
And rule in circles
Millions are hungry
Don't it make you angry?
Set fire to the pillars
Of their absurdity
And all this happens
While our media
It does its research
On the Ganja eating squirrel
You wonder (why)
why some of us are
more equal, than others
they've got the answer
they call it one word
re-ser-vation
so come and take it
this is your cake, it
has got a percent
So now have it free
But you cant see
They lurk in deep
In the lap of death
No cake for them
Cause they're not voters
No one's supporters
And all it happens
While our media
It does its research
On the Ganja eating squirrel
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Filtered Sunlight, Filtered Rain
Images flash by, magic is it
And the sunlight through the grills
Providing a shade with it
And the ground is soaking wet
Raising dust storms in its wake
As the musty smell seeps up
And it's what I can keep and take
Life wouldn't appreciate being scaled
Into lines and words, four after four
And my limits are none
Not until my fingers sore
Filtered Sunlight, Filtered Rain
What is it, memories or forgetting
Feet rest after a happy walk
And my fingers do the talking
For time has come, it always will
And I remain passive to it
It's passage doesn't amuse me
Wonder, why would it
The dust of the dusk is in place
The light shines at the end of the day
Filtered Sunlight, Filtered Rain
They must be on their way
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Handful of Dust
The sun set with the moon
A sepia tint on my landscape
The horizon will sing my tune
The Brothers Grim, we stand
Together In these Wastelands
And "As the cricket gives no relief"
We'll show you fear in a handful of dust
The Brothers Grim, to conquer
My sepia tinted place
And left behind a Damocles sword
In what was a serene face
Behold, Pegasus has to fly
He has no destination
The Brothers Grim, they sing
We'll show you fear in a handful of dust
Paper Cups...
As random thoughts fill in
Trains come and go incessantly
While mine refuses to come flatly
Paper cups they line my feet
As the long hours flit by
Time suddenly lost its wings
Or forgot how to fly
The train that came in next
And halted in front directly
The coach was destined to stop there
And her face glowed through the window
How many years since we last met
And here was my chance to meet her again
For a small moment, on this platform
And she, on the train
I hesitated, trying to find conversation
I found none, so I stayed
Hoping she would see me
And get off the train
And come to meet me
If just to say hello
Or smile in recognition, then
Maybe the words would flow
"I am not who you think
Oh, no" If she would ask
And grey fills the sky
Isolation, in destiny
Nothing happened in the end
The train left, and so did she
I loved her once...
Now paper cups, they line my feet
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
The Interminable Anger
We never made the call
And then we hoped to fly
Floating through one big lie
What would you do?
When your best friend lies to you
When there's a thing as trust
And your trust is too much
And every right seems wrong
And all failures are long
And then you pick your pen
And wonder where it began
Cause it remains unwritten
Cause is never found
Cause is all magic and trick
Cause never came around
And you're mostly alone
Even when with your friends
Even your best days
Into worst nights they end
Shouting from the corner
Surrounded only by echoes
Your own image is blurred
Just because you don't know
Stone
Replace it with a stone
It pains too much to see
And my right eye is alone
There's a knife in my ear
And it spins inside
Churning away madly
cutting through my hide
There's a humming in my brain
And it won't go away
It came in quietly
And now it's here to stay
There's a spring in my step
And I often touch the ceiling
But it's a pailful process
And no wounds are healing
There's a pen in my hand
And it's an approximate wand
It can't turn back
The grains of sand
There's a stone in my body
And it reminds me of pain
It reminds me of life
And that I am insane
Waiting
Even though the room is crowded
I wait alone
But she won't come
My friends have left
They have been here long
And lack of interest
And no hope of hope
I glance at the door
It stares back at me
It opens and closes
In an unrelenting mockery
Waiting alone in a coffee shop
Two cups, one for each
I am prepared for her
But she won't come
I look at my watch
And then I wait more
She should have been here
But she doesnt come
Waiting at the coffee table
There have been others before me
And like me they have waited
Knowing she won't come
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
A cup of Chaos
Waiting for it with happy faces
Working with no hands
In Too many dangerous places
Distortion of reality
Nothing's what it seems
Tripping over nothing
And wondering what to dream
Fighting in the shadows
The laughter punches our ears
Taking over completely
And waking all our fears
I awake in my dream
And try to hide my pain
And gather where I've been
While they take over again
There's a linear crowd
And a machine pulls up
Sooner or later we'll all be there
And there is no hope
Perhaps the end is better
We are all so happy here
And truth is rejected as lie
We begin again from the lair
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Vertigo
I am torn between
A desire to let go
And a will to hold on
And take the blow
I look below
And it lures me down
Step lightly on thin air
And in these winds drown
I take a deep breath
And look down again
My hands grip the railing
It drives me insane
There is no ground
I am on a tower so tall
I am called below
A desire to free fall
From infinty to infinity
I fall continuously
And no known rush greater
Than terminal velocity
One leg over the railing
And now the other
I give into my desire
And surrender to vertigo
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
You Don't Need Me Anymore
That I would like to give you
But I'll always say what I say
Cause whatever I say is true
The truth is I don't belong
And you don't need me anymore
I wish I could be, but
I can never be there anymore
I am the past, I don't exist
I might have been your imagination
But i was the child, I was naive
and I couldn't stand seperation
When there was nothing
Then there was a false hope
And I haven't learnt to live
And still have to learn to cope
You don't need me anymore
And all the words are futile
Still I wish I could be there
And be a part of your smile
Wish I could make a better difference
And wish I could see your eyes
And then I wish I don't
The fool, wants to be wise
Searching
Into the realms of reason
I have drifted away
Committed a personal treason
A month is too long
And now I search again
I have had pleasure
It's time for my pain
Life is a medicine
A glass of water suffices
It's a hard swallow
And properly it surprises
I am still the bard
Singing of broken dreams
I still have a voice
That writes it seems
Is this a return
Too much has passed
I have said another good bye
And have my feelings amassed
I am still busy searching
And it's not for good or perfect
It's for the fall within
And to earn my own respect
Saturday, February 18, 2006
The Ecstacy of Loss
And then I gave more
I bruised my spirit
And my soul is sour
A battle half won
Is a battle lost
I am never complete
I am almost…
I give up now
It’s useless anyway
The triumph of hope over reason
I used to say
I would rather nothing
And nothing is what I get
Born with bad luck
Failure is the surest bet
In time
The words would sound better
I would learn to rhyme
No longer bitter
It’s over now
No more laments
I tried my best
I don’t repent