Memory Ship

Memories

As

Signboards

When

Walk

Run Roll

Towards

Nothing

Everything

And

You

Memories

Keeps you

As old

Newspaper

All irrelevant

Till

Need Them

To wrap

Something

We gain some

We lose some

When

We cross the river

Memories

Tear us

Fold 

To Make

A ship

Memory Ship

Night

Rain

Held its breath

Spread across earth

Hot Lusty Steamy 

Earth

Made love with 

Every drop

Till

The morning

caught fire

butterflies' war

I am being chased by butterflies. The nights are infested with moths, dragonflies and beautiful butterflies. The sleep was like a finely composed photograph. I always love to take photos with some greenery in them. In this frame, there is a branch of a small tree with yellow green leaves, flowers and butterflies and I love them usually. But in here they look absolutely mean, looking straight at my eyes with some sort of a judgment. What are they needed from me? The colors I took them for my poems? The fluttering movements copied or their soul I kept in that crystal pendent, when I was so little? I don’t really know and they are not explaining. They are just there - flying endlessly and aimlessly inside the walls of my sleep, from one branch to another, from one frame to another.

Photocopy

Last night
My son told me, I am your photocopy

Stunned, it was a revelation
A thought, memory

Am I a copy of my father?
His pains, loneliness
Abstract philosophies

He must be a copy too, of
An ancient past
A forlorn town
Words of an old type writer

In time
I merge into him
Giving
My soul

An old pen
A Camera
Some words
A blood type

To my son

Last night
My son told me, I am your photocopy

The
Night was young
When I was awake...

But not anymore…

After the rain

A sheep grabbed the grass
from the clouds

Tattoo

My body tattooed
In your eyes
A shadow
Beneath your breath
My tongue
You swallowed
I slept, with your hand
On my soul
+
I kissed you
In an apartment
Infested with moths
My hands
Found
Their shape
On your back
I lost my way
In your depth
I tattooed
My body
In your void
+
My face
In your retina
Under my skin
Your smell
+
A long pause
+
My Time
Tattoo of a clock
On your neck

Shadows

A crow
Sat
On the
Shadow of
A branch

Looked
At

A cow
Eating
Shadows of
Grass

Clear
Images
Merged

Voices
Became
Shadows of
Thunder

Life
Under the
Shadow of
A tomb

Exhilarating

Cycle of life

When I walk
It walks after me

When
I walk
I walk towards it
Even if
It walks towards
Me

When we meet
There ends

The circle

Metamorphosis

An eye Sees nothing, stores nothing

Yet an eye as an eye
Took shape of a bird
Spread its wings
Draped the light with darkness

It burned a silence
In the heart of a God

An eye as an eye
Became a bird
Took the sky in its eyes


(The third edited version. Thank you Cristina, Lekh and Avy.)

Victoria’s Secret

They said it’s all a secret
Revealed in pink for the crowd
Nice and laced
Brunettes in chocolate swimsuits
Blacks wearing red two pieces
Whites with practically nothing
But all with wings
Remains of discarded angels

The lights were dim in my room
Beats from a rock band
The catwalk
FTV was showing
How the secrets are exposed
Through bare sadness
In victoria’s eyes

In a Poem...

The rain was on their roof. Early morning cool breeze slowly came through the open window, the curtains dancing with its rhythm. Her head was on his shoulder, his soft breath as a mesmerizing chant wrapped her in sadness. She was not slept that night. Still she was glad that he was sleeping, calm, and her smell wrapping him in a serine sense of belonging. The rain sounded sweet, as his love that made her life meaningful. At that moment as a line in his poem, she belonged to him, body and spirit.

Life, a memory

Life
A memory
Embedded
In our bone marrow
In a language
No one
Till now transcribed

Life after life
It flares
Being a beacon
Guiding us
To a point
Not yet mapped out

Translating
Memories may
Unveil footprints of
The moment
Where we took our time
And surrendered to birth

There stopped the reality

My print of body

I touched you

 A shiver

A look
Shadow of my spirit
On your being

Again

Time stopped
For
A breath to flow

+

My print of body

On your eye
 
Shadows
Writing a poem
With

Their whispering

Cityscapes - 3

Overbridge
above the street
a dried
installation

Noon
silence

Way side
lamp posts
walked
towards
the shadow of
a water tank

Trucks
ran past
in a row
a procession
of holy drinkers
vomiting
fumes and speed

Snapshot of
the street
in that noon

- A cemetery of
small shadows

The man is locked away in a diary

Written by me

For this standard words

Can only be unlocked

By your sharp looks

Through that curls of hair

Smelling raspberry and olive

Scattered by a breeze

And my breath

Epitaph

Another rain from another time

There are no universes with a roof
You drank from the moon I have buried
For the dreams in it, poisonous
You are addicted now, for
You have nothing to say about me
But at my expense you made lot of jocks
The rain is hilarious as it pours in another time

There is nothing to hide now
The leaf is as green as it can ever be
The forest is as dark as it can ever be
But still I walk in my sleep to a poem
I have never written, for
You will understand them if I recite
But, no, I won’t, because I can’t break
My image of toughness or arrogance

There, dear, is my grave. Come, read the epitaph
Life is what made me and broke me
Life is what given me a grave this beautiful
And I am thankful to you both.







.

The Journey

Every tree is

Part of a great journey
As every leaf is
Fraction of
An infinite green

Map to a great
Journey
The branches
Mould into a
Space not fixed

Rain travel through
Roots to leaves
Whispering the
Language of clouds

Every leaf is there
For the journey
As the sun soak them
In golden silence

Dry land to

A bed of emerald
-Monsoon

Dry branches to
A green length

Yellow bird is
Playing
With rain drops

News of an attempted murder

(You may not hear it in any news)

A thin string in

The neck

Gloved hands are

Dark

Bitter

Angry

A train broke

The silence

Opening me

To a death yet to come

I am happy to be here

In this eye of hurricane

Dark

Bitter

Angry

The string chokes

Opening me

To a dark desire

Engraved in my loneliness