Compromise

My happiness is
derived from small little things,
and greatness stymied.

Repercussions

Her observations
fill my days with contentment
I don't desire;
A summertime caesura
arrives, bringing misery.

When she laughs

When she laughs, her eyes,
exploding in happiness,
simplifies our world.

Weddings

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After the rites

In the burning Ghats
I watch tired bodies praying
for a cleaner death.

Spring

When the weather turns
a harp plays inside my bones
and ripples my soul.

Hooked Under

Gulmohar petals
trapped under my car's wiper
struggle to break free
like bra hooks in the hands of
an over eager lover.

The commerce of words

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Silences

This brooding silence,
echo of a despondence
that our road ends here.

Renovation

Mason breaking tiles,
shrouded in a dusty haze
I watch and resist
an immaterial grief
rising from the detritus.

Linger

In the school lobby
I listen, till she completes
Her swimming lesson;
She was born for the water
I, to linger in daydream.

Burnt Waters

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Relationships

Friendless and lonely
He intensely feels the like
Of acquaintances.

Summer

A sheet of rain breaks,
Abruptly, the gulls descend
down to the branches.
Standing underneath, I soar
silently into their world.

Reverie

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Travels
I reach home daily,
to travel with my daughter
on imagined trips
to places I have been to
but never seen, with such eyes.

Better Pill
Frustrating headache,
I swallow a Saridon,
then soulful music;
my mind dissolves silently
into unexpected bliss.

Awareness

So self aware, he
understood before he sought
and thus never did.