Friday, May 20, 2011

Old Path…..........White Clouds….....


Your tears are not your own
They come from the paths you left
As a wind from the salt plains of sorrows
It follows you to the place
With nights of half finished glasses
Where silence from empty bottles flow.
Your happiness is not your own
They come from the smiles you spread,
The clock of yesterday is dead
And a new one born at every night
With new sorrows and new smiles.
Your songs are from the sparrow’s heart
When they see rain on their doorsteps
What we call our own..
If we look again is not ours any more
In one day we bloom like a flower
One day flow like a wind..
I have wandered in cloudless paths
Trying to find an answer,
Only to be awakened later ,by
The seeds of misery –hidden in love
In my lust..in my passion..
The sweetness of fruits comes from
The hot summers of hunger
The emptiness of words comes from
Loud voices I hear
We collect things...we collect thoughts
We collect memories…we collect words
Our world gets filled.. we are possessed
Into this possessiveness..Into this sorrows
Where can we go on…on old paths
White clouds… dreamless sorrows..in trance…

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

El Cuarto Verde....The Green Room



The room is painted in green
With white paint playing hide and seek in cracks
And a spider on the corner, waiting for a big treat.
My window opens to another wall,
And my door opens to another room,
Like life, it opens to other visions
Not to an empty space or land,
I had to pass other floors
To travel out,
I have to cross the path where-
Words lay deserted on the floor.
Like a ship wreck lay scattered on the shore
Like water pools on roadside with yesterday's rain.
Some patches with water here and there
The room is a zone where silence floats,
In the air,on the floor...
Which I break with some songs,
Antonio Vega,with some Spanish sun,
Edith Piaf ,with some French love,
Like a Monsoon the songs come
To my green painted walls,
To my grey colored skies...
Breaking the doors,breaking the walls
Where silence is darkening the colored room
The songs flow like an afternoon river-in mercury shine..
And my green walls dances in bloom....

sueño violeta

In my dream yesterday,I visited a tavern
where i scribbled some poems in blue
the lines were beautiful like a sleep
So beautiful that I couldn't read them after my sleep,
They were like the night in Bangalore,
The Orange night of opium streets
The flashing car-ways of Ring Roads,
Like a night in Bangalore after 11
When Dogs invade the roads in packs
They hunt for food like a Monday rush hour
My lines in dreams were restless like those
Color purple, with a shade of blue
Opaque glass, outside filled with flowing night
So restless to enter into rooms...
So restless to enter into lives...
What a dream so close to life..!!
Or is it in life I am dreaming of a sleep...!!