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15Jan
36 comments on “Virus and Void”

Virus and Void

Posted by umashankaron January 15, 2022in Poems36 Comments

From virus to virusI have kept my date with not dying,tossing and turning in sheets,cough syrups and repurposed antibiotics.Inside me, the pathogen worms,outside me, the pathogen storms,in the middle of it all: a spent spring.Intervals of time don’t matter,intervals of…

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31Jan
38 comments on “The Forgotten Barbecue”

The Forgotten Barbecue

Posted by umashankaron January 31, 2021September 26, 2021in Poems38 Comments

It has come upon meonce more, this month ofinquisitions, the rat raceto the roads I never thoughtI’d take. Behind me and beyondthe misty miles, lie themuch-dreamt meadowsthat will never be my home now. They beckon me yet againlike the foliage…

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06Nov
50 comments on “From the Diary of a Covid Positive Fugitive”

From the Diary of a Covid Positive Fugitive

Posted by umashankaron November 6, 2020November 8, 2020in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst50 Comments

It was on the Saturday the 24th of October, 2020, with the three days’ holiday in its infancy, that I dozed off with a mild ache pulsing through my meagre frame, right after the morning bout of toast and ginger-chai.…

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11Oct
23 comments on “This Drop Come Home”

This Drop Come Home

Posted by umashankaron October 11, 2020in Poems23 Comments

This drop on the sill, a distant cloud come home on wings of heaviness, or grief as I know.

22Aug
30 comments on “The Jury and the Assassins”

The Jury and the Assassins

Posted by umashankaron August 22, 2020September 26, 2021in Poems, Uncorked Angst30 Comments

(This brief ghazal is dedicated to Disha Salian and Sushant Singh Rajput who were brutally murdered on June 08 and June 14 of the year 2020 seriatim, in the city of Mumbai.)

16Aug
24 comments on “Month of August”

Month of August

Posted by umashankaron August 16, 2020September 26, 2021in Poems24 Comments

Sullen rain simmers, pretends to slalom and surrenders,recoils in the clouds of sodden discontent.Arid thoughts smother the sapless stalks of life.It is the month of August, the fat middle ofan unrelenting virus, spinning off the sporesof a shivering November,it’s nowhere…

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12Apr
51 comments on “Exit the Ghost of Blogger”

Exit the Ghost of Blogger

Posted by umashankaron April 12, 2020April 12, 2020in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst51 Comments

Confined to the peripheries of my home, looking out the window at a mysteriously pink moon rising day after day, I have of late been forced to cogitate on the wonders of being alive, the hump in the lawn not…

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29Mar
16 comments on “Such a Wuhan Moment!”

Such a Wuhan Moment!

Posted by umashankaron March 29, 2020April 2, 2020in Uncorked Angst16 Comments

I do not know whether the citizens of United States take Mr Trump literally or seriously, or both, and I am glad I am not subject to that trilemma. But I was thrilled when he called the Chinese Virus a…

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15Dec
24 comments on “Mind Lies like a Mango”

Mind Lies like a Mango

Posted by umashankaron December 15, 2019December 24, 2019in Such is Life24 Comments

Yes, I have descended to filching from weird quotes of indeterminate, ambivalent origin and intent. True, I have faltered, faded, fumbled and stumbled into that eternal bin. The crispy tang of the green fruit before ripening into succulence has mellowed…

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25Aug
41 comments on “In Which Leia Doesn’t Eat the Ice Cream”

In Which Leia Doesn’t Eat the Ice Cream

Posted by umashankaron August 25, 2019December 13, 2019in Such is Life41 Comments

(Further to Bruno's Story) It seems I have troubled your heart, but it is a tale recount I must. So that next time you see a dog pup scrapping the bins for crumbs, you don’t wince in disgust. And when…

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24Aug
18 comments on “A Leader Passes Away”

A Leader Passes Away

Posted by umashankaron August 24, 2019September 26, 2021in Poems18 Comments

(Arun Jaitley: 1952⁠—2019) The flag is at half-mast, a gloom shrouds the chancel of the land; The one who hugged oblivion was once the counsel of the land. Soft spoken, discreet, a maven of silken-tongued satires, Unmasked and foxed were…

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18Aug
22 comments on “Lend Me the Assassin”

Lend Me the Assassin

Posted by umashankaron August 18, 2019September 26, 2021in Poems22 Comments

What memories have etched this incision in the night? My heart will crumble without a reason in the night. The throbbing in the air is the labour of my breathing, Tenor of the sighs is a petition in the night.…

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Three Tamarind Trees

The Bungalow by the Tracks

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Another Day like This

Going Blind

The Evening That Killed

The Giggling Gladiator

Ghazals in English

Lend Me the Assassin

Molten Moons

Afterwards

Wet Charcoal

The Icicled Bosom

Years in the Ash

A Leaf by the Nightfall

Pebbles You May Like

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Nightfall of Blogging

The Crusted Slice

Silence of the Scrolls

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

Writing is So Long

Fungus on the Filter

Flames and Ashes

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Truth Alone Triumphs

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Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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