Cocoon

There are no stories,

Here each night is mundane and lonely

The featherless night-birds spread their wings.

The moment I’m looking for is buried,

Beneath the dark staircase,

Each wound I polish on the secret stone shines

In false lights; it’s nostalgic too,

And strangely when a lizard cry

The moon goes behind the clouds,

There is a warm darkness throughout the house.

Every musical note now holds its own in silence,

The broken wall scribbles the forgotten words.

Corridors are filling up with selected alphabets,

A new world waits on the rooftop’s ledge.

@gopallahiri

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Moments

I know what I have to do now,

Each cell demands a winnable fight,

Not knowing the fallouts,

The twilight stripped down to a lean ray,

Running water’s edge-

The tall grass caressing fingers,

Evening breeze comes like a healer

But the darkness lingers in spine, in iris,

With lofty promise and deep learning

come some unknown peril,

Memories spin and at the end teach me

Something that I never care to listen.

Knowing moments are temporary,

I pick one by one and blow them away.

@gopallahiri

Memory Box

All my past shadows have been stored here in this room,

Childhood stories let the visitors in,

A box at the corner, unused clothing, silver ornaments,

Grandma’s sarees embrace those woven threads,

Striking floral fabric with red border

And a grace that never goes out of style,

Cracked weather bitten hands always caring,

Beneath those glistening eyes, there are pools,

The low notes of the evening songs

Played with violin, rest quietly on the dust and dirt

Of the window sill,

The blurred black and white photos on the wall

Reminisce dew laden morning and tweets of the tiny birds,

Long, slim, little boats are as if floating haystacks

Moored on the water, overlooking the crumbling patio,

There is no tedium in the shallows of the river.

Still curious are the pigeons on the iron railings

Not a word they use in despair, in hidden tears.

@gopallahiri

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