Where have all the typhoons gone?
Where is the lava of the volcanoes?
The earth does not quake again
The lightening strikes no more
In peace, the planet rests
Six centuries it takes
For the dust to settle
And the waterfalls to dry up
Before the first rain starts again
And down below, in the plains
A little green leaf grows
That’s the time it takes to go from peaceful to peaceable.
Performing at LitCon 2015, Mithibai college Tuesday was really special. I had a chance to perform at Mithibai college’s LitCon festival. The alma mater makes everything a magical experience. Even though the building has changed beyond recognition, it has echoes of my adolescent self, climbing out of windows, sneaking vada-paos…
Five of us in this photograph, she says,I wonder where the rest are.Six, he thinks,I was behind the camera. But she’s already looked away.#ideastory View on Path
Today I feel like I’m inside a wellthat no one’s looked down in ten years.And around and just outside the well,it’s Market Day The voices and the sounds, they reach me,blurring into each other and not discernible.It’s not noise, it isn’t sense eitherbut it is painful nostalgia, of what life…
Head on your lapOne leg crossed over the otherAnd lying on the sofa,Watching TV I was picking at an old scabA wound that left an ugly markTo remind me of all that I desperately try to forgetA strangely satisfying activity, that. And I was telling youOf things that I should…
“I miss the good old days when portrait painting was the only form of visual reproduction. But of course, you are too young to remember that.” I read the words in a tiny glass screen in the palm of my hand. Not a muscle moved, not even an eyelash flicker….
Here’s a piece that has been germinating since January this year. A letter, a poem, a truth. This is D for April 2015 A to Z Challenge. ~O~O~O~O~O~O~ Dear Once Upon A Time Woman, We learnt a long time ago that our most complicated relationship would not be with men…
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“From peaceful to peaceable” – I loved that line.
This gives out strong ‘Green Day’ vibes. and not just because of the september reference.
@ Vi: Some trouble with WordPress and/or the picture so I took it off.
@ Sreejith: Am not a big fan. I always thought they were more the ‘boom-crash-bang’ sort? I could be wrong.
Boom-crash-bang? I still enjoy their music. 🙂
@ Vi: Perhaps it was the now-non-existant picture that inspired it?
Me too…love and identify with “from peaceful to peaceable”…