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Tag: English Ghazal

24Aug
18 comments on “A Leader Passes Away”

A Leader Passes Away

Posted by umashankaron August 24, 2019April 20, 2020in 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, He unmasked and foxed…

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18Aug
22 comments on “Lend Me the Assassin”

Lend Me the Assassin

Posted by umashankaron August 18, 2019August 24, 2019in 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, Ardour of the sighs is a petition in the night.…

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28Jul
32 comments on “Molten Moons”

Molten Moons

Posted by umashankaron July 28, 2019December 24, 2019in Poems32 Comments

Like a penitent pigeon, grief has settled again on the ledge; Molten moons have lingered and shone in vain on the ledge.

01Feb
19 comments on “Pirates, Ahoy!”

Pirates, Ahoy!

Posted by umashankaron February 1, 2019April 5, 2020in Poems, Uncorked Angst19 Comments

The blizzard sits in the mountains, the earthquake in the grass, Shall I wear the deathly wind, or kiss the snake in the grass?

01Jan
33 comments on “Afterwards”

Afterwards

Posted by umashankaron January 1, 2019August 25, 2019in Poems33 Comments

Afterwards, I shall be a mote swirling at your window, Without a breath, or a heartbeat, ringing at your window. Noon has stumbled through the half-wicked buildings, Like a blemish upon the wooers singing at your window. Withering are the…

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16Jul
33 comments on “Wet Charcoal”

Wet Charcoal

Posted by umashankaron July 16, 2018December 24, 2019in Poems33 Comments

Each night I bleed a part of my soul to her beauty, Silken words awaken to fill up the hole to her beauty. A lone moon is treading forth the liminal dust of evening, The dying sun has hitched a…

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25Mar
34 comments on “The Icicled Bosom”

The Icicled Bosom

Posted by umashankaron March 25, 2018March 29, 2018in Poems34 Comments

Old lesions fester and seep in the cavern of tonight, Dark thoughts gather and weep in the cavern of tonight. A high wind is swaying the maimed tree of deodar, The parched lips of tippler look for tavern of tonight.…

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24Dec
40 comments on “Years in the Ash”

Years in the Ash

Posted by umashankaron December 24, 2017April 5, 2020in Poems40 Comments
The scribbler image

The old year shrivels like a dog-eared calendar in the ash, Days fuse into dust, hope into hungry tinder, in the ash. For a decade of scribbling my heart out on Internet, The façade has imploded in all its splendour…

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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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The Man Thing

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

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

Luna's Story

‘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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