Friday, July 26, 2019


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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