Category: Poetry
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Arrogance of benevolence
How often do you wonder If your work is worthy at all? If your work touches, cares and feels, raises, improves…even transforms? This thought torments, troubles & weighs Pulls, weakens & preys And rightly so…for what else Can check the arrogance of benevolence February 11, 2021
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Anamalai doodles
Have never sketched. Did not think I could. High school drawing class was misery and perhaps played no insignificant part in this. Year-end slow-down unrelated to COVID-19 helped bring some pause to an otherwise tumultuous year. Two doodles from the hills.
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Pointing to myself
I can press like on one and retweet another with ease; practising my likes & retweets requires grit and strength that I am still trying to gather; tired of pointing out everything that’s wrong with the world and realise that I’m complicit to what I point…
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Tukde Tukde hum nahin, tumhara tootna mumkin hai
टुकड़े टुकड़े हम नहीं, तुम्हारा टूटना मुमकिन है – उमेश श्रिनिवसन यह जो बैर के पहाड़ खड़े किए हैं तुमनेसोचा होगा के हैं हिमालय से भी बुलंदहम नहीं जियेंगे इनके साए मेंनफ़रत के टुकड़े कर देंगे टुकड़े टुकड़े हम नहीं, तुम्हारा टूटना मुमकिन है जाओ रेंगते उसी गुफाह में जहाँ से साँप बनकर निकले हो…