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Author: umashankar

I am just a watcher then. Sometimes I watch life, sometimes I watch death; many times I watch in between...
30Oct
43 comments on “A Leaf by The Nightfall”

A Leaf by The Nightfall

Posted by umashankaron October 30, 2017November 14, 2017in Poems43 Comments
A leaf by the nightfall

Fallen by the wayside like a sheaf by the nightfall, The sea of love has withered on the reef by the nightfall. Happiness will travel only one way with her footsteps, The dust will settle deep like a grief by…

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08Oct
41 comments on “Only the Crows”

Only the Crows

Posted by umashankaron October 8, 2017October 8, 2017in Poems41 Comments
'Only the crows' image

Derrick J. Night, who writes everyday about his incredibly plenteous garden, weaves subtle symbols and imagery in the titles and subjects of his photo-filled posts. Yesterday, I was struck by the title of his post, 'Only the Crows', the moment…

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01Oct
37 comments on “Burning Monsters”

Burning Monsters

Posted by umashankaron October 1, 2017October 7, 2017in Poems, Uncorked Angst37 Comments

They are burning effigies, it’s that time of the season, Ones in flesh and bones are hatching crimes of the season. Bandits from the barrens decree beheading of the infidel, And savour blinkered women over the wine of the season.…

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05Sep
33 comments on “My Aunt’s Lollipops”

My Aunt’s Lollipops

Posted by umashankaron September 5, 2017September 5, 2017in Poems33 Comments

Such divinations were planted in my ears by my aunt who died on a cloudy day, spelling out the mantra for absolute cheers by watching out the omens sent my way. Cruising for success never comes by stepping on the…

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02Sep
23 comments on “The Aroma of Darkness”

The Aroma of Darkness

Posted by umashankaron September 2, 2017September 26, 2021in Poems23 Comments

Many a mouldy mantilla surround the lights like a veil, shapeless shores of myopia, met me early in the trail. To a lad with glassy countenance, came a haze following the smoke, a kinsman dubbed astigmia to lend next layer…

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27Aug
40 comments on “The House of a Snail”

The House of a Snail

Posted by umashankaron August 27, 2017September 23, 2017in Such is Life40 Comments

So I got my relocation orders again. As with me, if you are a minion of a financial behemoth, all relocation orders are the same. But then, as they say, some relocation orders are more same than the others. As…

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08Jul
47 comments on “I Knew I Shall Weep”

I Knew I Shall Weep

Posted by umashankaron July 8, 2017December 24, 2019in Poems47 Comments

Where walkways were fragrant with you, I shall weep, It was not till I left your city, I knew I shall weep. Affinity is at discount in the market of subsistence; There are thousands in the meandering queue, I shall…

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25Jun
45 comments on “When False Dreams Come True”

When False Dreams Come True

Posted by umashankaron June 25, 2017March 13, 2022in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst45 Comments

Dear readers, the original title of this post was ‘Confusticated and Bebothered’. But I became jittery at the last minute, even though no detractors were skinned alive in the process of pilfering it from Dictionary.com’s daily offering, who in turn…

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13May
47 comments on “A Holus-Bolus Odyssey”

A Holus-Bolus Odyssey

Posted by umashankaron May 13, 2017September 26, 2021in Poems47 Comments

The page remained unblemished across the night, waiting for letters. But why sniffle a haiku When one can weep a sea? The peepal tree has a new, green sheath. It shimmers and quivers in the barely felt breeze. Everywhere around…

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22Apr
42 comments on “Hangmen of April”

Hangmen of April

Posted by umashankaron April 22, 2017September 23, 2017in Such is Life42 Comments

Come April and I am awash with phone calls from friends and colleagues about how they fared in the annual performance appraisals. Certain lesions of the past rendered unmentionable on this blog due to reasons of propriety, have bestowed the…

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09Apr
53 comments on “The Vegetable Rice Chef”

The Vegetable Rice Chef

Posted by umashankaron April 9, 2017April 20, 2017in Fiction53 Comments

Himesh is fussy about the order in which ingredients should be put into vegetable rice. Butter, followed by equal amount of mustard oil, cumin seeds, chopped chillies and onions, crushed ginger and garlic, minced mint and coriander leaves, a handful…

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20Mar
30 comments on “The Ark of Nostalgia”

The Ark of Nostalgia

Posted by umashankaron March 20, 2017March 20, 2017in Such is Life30 Comments

“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.” ~Haruki Murakami As if working for a bank weren’t traumatic enough, I am working for a subsidiary bank undergoing absorption in its parent. It is highly hypocritical of someone…

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The Vegetable Rice Chef

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

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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

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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