Perhaps always Ariel and Caliban
Share the human house. To one is flight
Unfettered, the other chafes
Against the bondage,
Weeps blood tears and spits
Malodorous refuse;
Struggling against biting ropes all night
Plots and labors to engineer or bribe;
Walking around in circles through the day
Imagines the leaden weight diminish, the wings
Soar on a windstream through amazing canyons. ...more
Half Aroma Half Face
These poems were published in the book Half Aroma Half Face by Writers Workshop, Kolkata
Two to R
LACMA 111909
We sit in a suspended cagesurrounded by bandaged and numbered formscured cadavers of the past:only instead of the macabreflashes of beauty escape in scintillationsexotic fragrances and momories instead of formaldehyde.your soft and disinteresteddistant eyes in a breathing bodyquestion my subjectivitywith some compassion some sadness. peeling the feeling i read that languagecompassion is yours for me … Continue reading LACMA 111909 ...more
Nikhil Banerjee Plays Rageshree
He stretches the time quantumProviding subjective spaceSince space is time in the becoming,The space of timeFor consciousness to expand intoBringing the human into proximity with the supermanOr perhaps questioning the boundaries of the human The twang of the primordial soundThe one that every instrument, plucked, bowed, struck or blownRemembers as its OriginThis is the slow … Continue reading Nikhil Banerjee Plays Rageshree ...more
Prana, Kratu, Jazz II
Straight black jacket and black dervish cap
Knit eyebrows, the steady quizzical eyes
The veteran of the wind discipline winding
Lazy, straight or lightning swift at will.
Flanking behind the two younger sibling cats
Bend ornamental traceries, or subdue
The demon of sound, held down to willed obedience.
Beside him the magician of the finger drums
Patterns out the geometric landscape. ...more
Knit eyebrows, the steady quizzical eyes
The veteran of the wind discipline winding
Lazy, straight or lightning swift at will.
Flanking behind the two younger sibling cats
Bend ornamental traceries, or subdue
The demon of sound, held down to willed obedience.
Beside him the magician of the finger drums
Patterns out the geometric landscape. ...more
Myna May 2010
a few days only
you filled my home with your flutter
your hop, chirp, trust and companionship
where the present tries to perch with its claws
clinging to thin air ...more
you filled my home with your flutter
your hop, chirp, trust and companionship
where the present tries to perch with its claws
clinging to thin air ...more
Kumu
Samarda
As we went about on this side of life
A glistening silver line appeared
And Samarda slipped quietly through the crack ...more
A glistening silver line appeared
And Samarda slipped quietly through the crack ...more
Makoto
I heard the rumbling of the dragon
The rattling of the thunderseeds
In the box that's shaken repeatedly
By a feminine hand.
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The rattling of the thunderseeds
In the box that's shaken repeatedly
By a feminine hand.
...more
Hipsters From Bombay
Hip cats walk the bombay streets. Experts of the cool man language. The chillim talk. Hybridized with the vernacular (bom shombhu) ...more
Phoenix
avanti used to say that while the birth of modernity in the west
was premised on the death of god
the birth of modernity in india
which was simultaneously the birth of its nationalism
was premised on the birth of god.
yes it is true in more ways than one;
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was premised on the death of god
the birth of modernity in india
which was simultaneously the birth of its nationalism
was premised on the birth of god.
yes it is true in more ways than one;
...more