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Category: Poems

14May
32 comments on “With the Cicadas”

With the Cicadas

Posted by umashankaron May 14, 2016December 24, 2019in Poems32 Comments

The evening is long with shadows of the afternoon chopped and spent at the edges of green black leaves of pubescent jackfruit trees. With the cicadas I pause and creek. With the cicadas I wax and shrink. A blackbird took…

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05May
43 comments on “The Song of Jar Jar Binks”

The Song of Jar Jar Binks

Posted by umashankaron May 5, 2013December 20, 2017in Poems, Uncorked Angst43 Comments

I can smell the diction Taliban just beyond my window. I can hear the rat-a-tat of their words, its robotic monotony, rattle of Kalashnikov. Peeking out the pane, I see skyscrapers raised on cacophony of flakes and wafers; buzz and…

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21Jul
97 comments on “The Mourning Cat”

The Mourning Cat

Posted by umashankaron July 21, 2012December 20, 2017in Poems97 Comments

All night long the cat has wailed, Halting the darkness in its trails; I have groped and gulped water and peed, Turned and tossed in my bed and quailed. The kitten was young and its queries small, The wheels that…

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10Jun
88 comments on “Of Crows and Swans”

Of Crows and Swans

Posted by umashankaron June 10, 2012December 28, 2017in Poems, Such is Life88 Comments

Tumbling tonight in tavernous treks, My breath reeking of Sauvignon Blanc, I have courage enough to read the blogs of whitest crows and blackest swans. “Seven best ways to flag off a blog,” She croaked to soak in a hundred…

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03Jun
74 comments on “Gap-toothed Smile”

Gap-toothed Smile

Posted by umashankaron June 3, 2012June 4, 2012in Poems74 Comments

In the recesses of the gap-toothed smile my tears are black. Pallid stars in the inky blue of a dying sky. A fly on the windshield of bliss wriggling in vacuum, Hanging still through swerves and sweeps of a listless…

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28May
79 comments on “The Northern Planes”

The Northern Planes

Posted by umashankaron May 28, 2012May 15, 2016in Poems, Such is Life79 Comments

  The heat is baking the Northern Planes, Frankly, I am least worried, Father's beyond all heat waves, Mother has receded into her ribs. The summers bring the mangoes too, They now grow on puny trees, Long gone are the…

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19Mar
48 comments on “Nor Sleep Nor Dream”

Nor Sleep Nor Dream

Posted by umashankaron March 19, 2012December 20, 2017in Poems, Such is Life48 Comments

I slept dreamless on a Sunday noon. Marooned on an isle of lifelessness, spurned by the mattress, night after night, battling slumber's flight, it came as a boon. Life sits heavily on the chest; The incest with the inhaler brings…

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15Mar
41 comments on “The Sour Flute”

The Sour Flute

Posted by umashankaron March 15, 2012December 20, 2017in Poems41 Comments

(Is fair work rewarded often? Du Fu was a great Chinese poet who lived from 712 to 770 AD. He was doomed to a sad and deprived life as he failed in his many attempts to qualify the official civil…

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21Feb
28 comments on “To The Living”

To The Living

Posted by umashankaron February 21, 2012December 20, 2017in Poems, Such is Life28 Comments

You want me to spread my heart on the bed, It’s both broke and cold; I watch my feet as I move ahead, There are cadavers on the floor. What is this they won’t let me peel? A sheet, a…

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11Feb
25 comments on “Ghostwalker”

Ghostwalker

Posted by umashankaron February 11, 2012May 15, 2016in Poems, Such is Life25 Comments

  Standing on the untilled land, The wind sliding past my hairless pate, I proffer water with trembling hands And light the lamp of a withered fate. They said your soul will wail and wander On the breath and the…

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06May

That I Live Still —A Translation

Posted by umashankaron May 6, 2007December 25, 2019in Poems, Translation

"Emotions! What right had anyone to meddle with emotions? Words were invented to conceal emotions. It was the dreadfulness of raw emotion that had made language a basic necessity." ~Isaac Asimov I have been writing for long, mostly for folios…

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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

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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