My bhabi scoops out each beard / Till my brother screams in pain / She is terrified if someone / Finds her husband's name!
Tag: verse

The Saucer Cannot Hold
My cup of verse fills up / Falls / Without word / Unrhymed / Like cuppa-noodles wasted with too much hot water

A Poet’s Margins
What use are words if they too don't reach hearts in the hinterlands, forests and fields?

The Lost Identity
I don’t know / What sorrow could have / Made their heart so heavy / That the light was sucked / Out of their eyes

Hush, Shush, Keep Your Conscience Shut
For every attack that tortured my soul, I won't say quiet, not anymore.

When a Place Forgets You and Not the Other Way Round
'No more over-sweetened tea with friends, or waiting to get a coffee and hoping the machine actually works this time.'

‘I Remember Holding You, All Five Feet Three of You’
'Now that it is over, you say, we must know how good it was'