“There I lay open, on the examination table, all my parts jumbled like a bad biology puzzle. My separated ...”

“Where did the ends of our worlds meet? In the shallow landscapes of our palms? In the ...”

“In an instant I'm plunged into the old roaring of words that fell from the soaring heights of our ...”

“So we looked and found each other again, our respective fate lines tied in a knot. -------- I miss you still, kissing our ...”

“Leave this hour behind inside me like a signature of your smile on the blind tips ...”

“Walking one afternoon on a path that led into thick bushes I came upon him, fully formed and bright. Wings tucked ...”

“The beast rose within to smash the mirror of memory that hung on the low wall of ...”

“In these arms I gather the loneliness of your dreams as you curl into my corners lost ...”

“Between uncertain unhappiness and the smells of sunset and sorrow there was a space. A no man's ...”

“he moved through the shadows like death...fiddling with his dark coat...blending in here...shape shifting there. ...”

“(Cross posted here.) The guns have finally fallen silent. The staccato bursts of gunfire have died ...”

“In these teeming billions I'm just another tear drop flowing down the cheek of mortality. ----- Inside you the dust ...”

“Yesterday night I talked to a wall, a brick red barrier off which bounced my monologue like ...”

“The sudden fiery outburst of a flowerpot next door sharpens the evening with the smell of ...”

“That one word fell between us like a raindrop, smudging the intimacy inside our eyes. That ...”

“Yesterday, I went to a poetry reading where a forgotten poet was resurrected. His history made ...”

“(The following is a true story. It really happened. Names have been changed to protect ...”

“In between these lines you can read all the meanings you want because you have peeled off ...”

“They came armed with bulldozers and bulletins onto our verdant fields and into our modest homes. The ...”

“Five years is a long time. The city has changed so much. In fact, it ...”

“Their fingers touched briefly like two flowers brought together by the wind. The distance was ...”

“Twenty four hours. That is what you asked for as the sun set behind the tree ...”

“Every day that passes behind the calender strikes a different chord in the long chapter of ...”

“We needed alcohol. Due to the lack of time and poor planning we had not ...”

“For some reason I remembered that morning without a name again today. A morning that ...”

“Outside my house the lone tree is smiling with her crown of fresh green leaves. It was only ...”

“There are certain moments that you remember even years later with a terrible clarity, reliving ...”

“One day soon this heart will burst and in the midst of flying flesh you will discover all ...”

“The words are caught at the back of my throat like phlegm after a bad cold. I wish ...”

“ Aimee Mann - Video ...the bell tolls and i can hear it even though i exist ...”

“Hold that thought between your lips. Let me trace its edges with my tongue and tease out ...”

“ I have not slept for 36 hours. While your brain has been chewing on sleep ...”

“In my eyes you lived like a flower, flowering only in my daily daydreams. ------ I let them play hide and seek on ...”

“(I never post opinion pieces on this blog but I think this needs to be ...”

“Through the lines I walk by the shadow’s edge in search of big things like love, ...”

“ I. ...”

“ Mazzy Star - Into Dust Things do not make much sense these days. Some days pass ...”

“And where shall the pale hands of time lead us? For upon this day lies the ...”

“When oceans begin to part in the service of sympathy, When laughter begins to fade in ...”

“It is a quiet night. The humid darkness has settled down into an inky blackness. ...”

“They promised a Turkish dinner and talk of apertures over kebabs. I slept through the deadline. Solitude over ...”

“The sudden throb of a passing truck woke him up. He opened his eyes and ...”

“What use is love for those whose hands stink of death? What meaning does humanity hold ...”

“When the weather is pleasant and balmy, like today, I make it a habit to ...”

“I. Steve McCurry’s photographs were a like a balm to my tired and bored eyes. The ...”

“By the side of a fallen branch I found my little heart, covered by a coat ...”

“ Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up I. It was Smack My Bitch Up that was playing ...”

“On the outskirts of an echoing sob I found you weeping big fat tears. It was your ...”

“The tell tale signs are all present, the stubborn frown, the suppression of superficiality and the puckered ...”

“ Aqua - Turn Back Time There is a certain desperate beauty in not sleeping. To ...”

“ The Cranberries - Linger I walked. Across the road. Past the Campina factory. Past the ...”

“They say I’m past my prime, driving up a one way street with my three ...”

“(Here is the final one of the four guest posts. A big thank you to ...”

“(Here is the third in a series of four guest posts. One more to go. Mermaid ...”

“(On June 1st this blog turned two years old and adding the two years time ...”

“(On June 1st this blog turned two years old and adding the two years time ...”

“Here is the night nodding along with me, nostalgia begins to climb the stairs in my ...”

“ఆకాశం లో నా ఈ చిన్ని చిన్ని ఆశలను అరేయనా? అలవాటు లేని ఈ ఆనందాన్ని గుండెలో బంధించనా? నిమిషానికి ...”

“We lived for the silence at sunset, varied layers of love covering us with companionship. Your ...”

“గుండె లోని ఈ ఘోషని గొంతు చించి అరవనా? కనికరం లేని ఈ కష్టాలని కళ్ళు మూసి చూపించనా? నుదిటి మీద ...”

“The clouds hang in the sunless sky like fluffy pink pillows. The air is still between ...”

“ The Dust Brothers - This Is My Life III. The night is near, midnight rising on ...”

“ రాలుతున్న కన్నీటి చుక్కలు చెప్పగలవా రామాయణమని ములుగుతున్న ఆలోచనలు చెప్పగలవా మనసు ఒక మూగతనాన్ని కళ్ళ లో దాగి ఉంది అవధులు ...”

“I’ll kiss the moonlight falling on your breasts this night. I’ll wander through your hair in ...”

“The night hung between us like a forgotten conversation. Her breasts under my hand. Her lips against my ...”

“The nausea of a future undefined permeates my body. Every pore, every strand of hair is drenched in ...”

“It happened at the rave. I was supposed to cover the event as an unofficial ...”

“ Pink Floyd - Eclipse My heart beat in tandem to their music. I was drunk ...”

“Sudden spurts of intense noise breaking the barriers of a hesitant voice. Distant faces mouthing unformed words. I stare at the ...”

“Songs of innocence and birds of pain. Weakened by pleasure, He       Smiles-                 Gratis. Impossible!                                          Unheeded warnings.                                          Unending torture. In the end-Unity. Welcome to            The Great ...”

“In these arms I have seen A million dreams Separate as solitary streams. ------ The glitter of love unmasked under the harsh ...”

“The morning mist rests on her brow, her eyes are fresh like the grass on ...”

“ Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined Beat and Rhythm bridging my flashing synapses in fine murmurs with The ...”

“I opened my eyes and saw Architectural fires burning Penalized prostitutes posturing Colluding writers prospering Seminal science degrading I closed my eyes and saw God being raped ...”

“తనివి తీరని ఈ ధెహం అలుపు ఎరుగని ఈ చూపులు కదులుతున్న ఈ కాలాన్ని ఆపగలవా? కరుగుతున్న ఈ ఆశలను కలపగలవా? గాలి లో ...”

“The early morning sunlight slips past my shadow. The woods are alive with the sounds of spring, flowers ...”

“Green is the shape of her shadow hiding behind the barn door. A parrot whistles a love ...”

“We met last winter under the eaves of a huge dome amidst rushing feet and departing goodbyes. There ...”

“ना जाने क्यों ये बिखरते लमहे गिरते है बूंदों की तरह मेरी आँखों मे शायद प्यासे है वो ...”

“Sweet is the breeze that ruffles the feathers of the future strewn before me. She, a maiden ...”

“Free Falling - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers He stands on the edge and stares ...”

“All this mock concern. All this false hope. My, my, I'm touched, but where were you when the ...”

“i. हमने देखे है लाख ख्वाब आपकी निगाहो मे मगर देखा नहीं कभी उनमे प्यार की हसीन मुस्कुरहट ii. वो ...”

“Fear pulses in my heart like a metronome, cloaking the world in a shroud of grey. ----- It was inevitable, this ...”

“In here I’m the permanent outsider caught in the silence of a civilization. The color of my ...”

“Hurt - Johnny Cash Dearest Anarghya, How are you? I hope all is well with you. ...”

“Echoes of Time - R. Carlos Nakai “People, people, people, listen, listen well to this song ...”

“This is me dosed on drugs wandering, wandering through the streets searching for people I knew in better ...”

“She traced the continents time had mapped on my forehead. My nose yielded its secrets of rough ...”

“Ghost Song - Air We were flying through a world on the verge of passing, the music ...”

“Our life is within me, taking shape, tiny fists punching the water flowing through our collective consciousness. Every ...”

“I walk the streets on moonless nights chanting Bukowski and Burroughs. Some people stop to listen, some people stop ...”

“That day a lot happened on the phone. Some things slipped, fell and shattered. They were our inhibitions. It ...”

“Alone in Kyoto - Air The first view of anything below was when the clouds cleared ...”

“This inhuman need for people washed away by words and vanity. Threads worn thin against the curve of continents and ...”

“Wurlitzer - David Gray A ray of light illuminates my raw past. ------ So soon, so soon my silent dreams fell ...”

“In the space between your fingers I found a silence sleeping. The interplay of roving fingertips awakened hesitant speech and, now, ...”

“Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor Op.64 - Kyung Wha Chung, Charles Dutoit Montreal SO ...”

“In a sense it is about choice. The choice to do things differently. The choice ...”

“Maya's Theme - A. R. Rahman My memory lost consciousness as a loudspeaker recorded its last lament. ----- These songs are ...”

“First Sleep - Cliff Martinez A phone rang in the background. People trying to reach ...”

“(Note: Most of the posts on this blog are written with some music playing in ...”

“Life as a doctoral student sucks. It doesn’t suck in the ordinary nobody loves me ...”

“Say you have got time on your hands, what do you do? Do you go ...”

“I left her there on the park bench, lost in thought, and walked away. We ...”

“When I was born I had to breathe You have to begin sometime somewhere There was no ...”

“The psychedelic underbelly of the world had erupted and all I saw was a huge ...”

“We met at one of those dark places. The silence between us had stretched. She ...”

““I’m telling you it was her man!” “Boy, you must have been dreaming. How can it ...”

“The world is a green blur. Streamers float on glassy surfaces. Images unroll in slow ...”

“I walk half naked through my house, somehow reminded of Chuck Barris as portrayed by ...”

“I hold silence in my hand Near the Wells of Reason As golden sunbeams sing a dirge To ...”

“Bits and Pieces Of forgotten poems Link- Vision and emotion Like ancient saints I travel through time Lonely- Humming eternal ragas And seeing ...”

“In the square and tall house A clock ticks and a fridge splutters Squealing children quarrel next ...”

“A world of emotion In my eyes Random images falling like shooting stars Saturated snapshots in time The tenderness ...”

“I know three ways to kill a mouse. Squeamish already? Then stop reading right now, ...”

“The promise of what will be is now the despair of what could have been ------ We breathe, we ...”

“My words dissolve In your mouth Like tongue tingling ice cubes I kiss your back My tongue shooting out To ...”

“The passage through immigration feels like as if I’ve crawled through dirt. The tone of ...”

“The smile of the sun The sunshine of a smile The sound of a storm The darkness of ...”

“The world collapsed around their dreams with a whimper in the sudden rain of fire from the sky. Reflected in ...”

“There are certain shots that develop in your head, day after day, like...like the verses ...”

“I read that we should live for tomorrow But for me tomorrow brings back yesterday’s faults He ...”

“Look at the sun Hanging- In four dimensions Like a baby’s rattle Look at the leaves Draping- The evening shadows In a ...”

“The smiles, they Broke open In my heart Like blooming flowers I wrapped them in My love And gave them To the ...”

“I like riding through cities after midnight. There is a certain beauty to urban places ...”

“Keep a seat for me On the big blue ship My Lord, here I come to ...”

“The rain came down like a wave of tears. They were caught. A moment. An ...”

“Do you remember? Yesterday, You asked me What could I do? I could Suck Your toes Nibble Your soft ear lobes Kiss Your eyelashes I ...”

“Yesterday, I got drunk On- The staccato rumble of God’s laughter Igniting pillars Of crazy thoughts Consuming With a passion The rare ...”

“I These Aural delights, and Thought poems Light up My grey body With the light of Exploding stars ----- Blue blades Of thought Pass through The low ...”

“Get up groaning and cursing even before the alarm has rung and think again for ...”

“Time crying In golden streams Lifting spirits Bending wills I pause With answers “The line is straight” Time laughing Like wind chimes Breaking bonds Burning ...”

“Electric leaf lines twirling in psychedelic waves of color and form A splash of orange A dash of pink A river ...”

“A couple is sitting on a bench. The bench is in a park, one of ...”

“A tropical sun, but without the burning heat, has come calling. I’m taken back in ...”

“Yes, I think silence is better than talk sometimes...there is a beauty to silence...especially the ...”

“She came into the room I was in sometime after midnight. I was still awake, ...”

“We rose together Bed sheets crumpled beneath The morning sun kissed our fingertips ----- Waves of fresh sorrows crashed Between ...”

“Where does compassion for a subject in one’s novel begin and desire to finish the ...”

“I looked Into the eyes Of Evil and Hate Standing like sentinels In the middle of Reason A roller coaster ...”

“A strange feeling of disconnect From me and you and everyone The blinking cursor Waiting for words To fill ...”

“On the sofa We lay lost In our feelings Tracing hair and Hidden fingertips While the fan above Slowly revolved with Our ...”

“I look in the mirror To find those dreams You carved On my concave cheeks ----- Trace my eyebrows With ...”

“The Seasons sound their silent bells before time Cold rain washing the dry dust, off the reluctant trees Wet dogs and ...”

“Fragments of time pass before my eyes. Their facets reflecting memories of a quarter century. ...”

“I want to write. I want to write until the stars stop exhaling light. I ...”

“I see The light of our love Like meteors burning In the still waters Of your blue eyes I feel The ...”

“Look around, look around, they said and I looked, to see men of my generation, with brains ...”

“Your tongue In my mouth A wet taste Of new love ------ Love lingers On my lips Like falling snow flakes ----- Thoughts of ...”

“As the curtain lifts we are on a bed under the stars. The bed is ...”

“We live and die like viruses vile and parasitic running through life with wrinkled brows smeared with the suppressed screams of fellow ...”

“He lay there in the midst of dead bodies, his handsome face streaked with blood. ...”

“I'm not a poet I'm not even a writer I'm just another word-dreamer”

“It's so strange When nothing matters no more You talk in riddles Bringing up images and Words from different ...”

“Sarahir waited patiently in the reception. He had been there for close to three hours ...”

“We rode the waves our bodies bending and flowing around each other Faces contorted in the grip of a manic emotion hands ...”

“Layers and layers Of random thoughts Filling space- With a manicured silence ----- Life, after a Rain Sharp. Clear. Distinct. Green and ...”

“The stars They never knew me Forever Dancing on the dark dome Passages carved Between them In whispers of light Distant, unperturbed By ...”

“Inside him there is a hole, a black hole. Enter and it will take you ...”

“I distill wine From your clear laughter Like a naughty Bacchus Your feet Produce music An ecstasy in two movements I ...”

“Weathered light From a million hoardings Like old lovers Awakens- Streams of desire And rivers of discontent Green faces- Under the hazy ...”

“Her voice rose and fell through his consciousness. In the infinite distances around him the ...”

“You and me On the rock, dissolving In the soft moonlight Your back arched In pregnant pleasure Framing the tangent Between ...”

“I ride on the gossamer wings of dawn Watching the world below slowly wake up The dark ...”

“Salted beans Swirling in the green Liquid, like Submerged elephant-gods I dip my finger Into the verdant concoction Parting the ...”

“Whenever I went shopping she would come with me. She was a comforting presence and ...”

“As Moby’s stirring ‘God moving over the face of the waters’ slowly begins, Vincent (Al ...”

“In the black light Of night I want to merge The acme of my emotion In your fervent receptacle ----- The ...”

“Feelings cling To thoughts from the past A look of love A taste of time Trembling lips, wet eyelashes, Groping ...”

“My skin, hardened by The snows of solitude Tries to peer from behind The closed shutters of displaced ...”

“In her mouth my words swirled like white wine. She opened her mouth and I ...”

“The evening falls Like wet tears Its shadows coursing Down my cheeks Loneliness Creeps in behind The fading light Softly, silently I labor To ...”

“Can you talk in images? Can you paint the colors of my land in three ...”

“Your images Keep flashing On my inner eye A long kiss in the woods Confessing inner desires Sleeping together In the ...”

“I died A thousand births In your intimate words”

“(cross posted on Caferati) The databanks glided past him like a vast procession of the dead. ...”

“They walked towards the setting sun, hand in hand. One of them struggled with the ...”

“I gave up Immortality- For your sake We swam together In liquid dreams You smoothened The frazzled edges Of my polarized soul And ...”

“Close Your eyes And see The prism of my longing Split the colors Of my love Into a rainbow of loneliness”

“I saw You at 3 am In a distant dream Pensive and withdrawn Collecting marbles Of desire From the mantelpiece And arranging ...”

“Thrust into this dark well of despair I begin to imagine your beautiful body in ...”

“In your eyes I see the tears Of a love struggling To find a foothold On the cold crags Of ...”

“Dew drops Line your lips I lick them off Tasting the smile Underneath ----- The rose blooms In your eyes And fills me With ...”

“Deep bass drums Locking horns Producing- Space and time A phase shift Into acoustic pleasure Reverb And suburb Oscillating- Around a common axis I weep With ...”

“The night rolled away powered by our flights of fancy. We were outside the city ...”

“I celebrate life In electric dreams Jumping over elemental mountains Swimming under DNA fountains Serendipity beckons With a nod Of her ...”

“Yesterday, or to be accurate in the wee hours of this morning, for the first ...”

“The dreams you traced With your tongue On my lips The tapestry you wove With your fingers On my skin The ...”

“It's your breath That gives shape To the love lining My falling tear drops ------- Silence pours Out of my palms An ...”

“They came in their machines and ate us. They fed on our brains, inserting their ...”

“The ride across the river soothed him. There was something in the gentle flapping of ...”

“Too many times I have stopped Too many times I have thought Instead of Saying what That matters Saying what That counts And now At ...”

“The auditorium is huge. It is an ocean of space built in three levels. Diffused ...”

“The chairs are empty, three of them under the lonely spotlight. All three are draped ...”

“It was night and the lights were flashing, long streaks of them, white and bright. ...”

“I can't believe this, Roger Waters will reunite with his former Pink Floyd band mates ...”

“One by one they all left, like migratory birds on the journey south, each taking ...”

“            Sometimes when the shadows begin             to lengthen the huge distance between             you and me I take a deep breath and              play ...”

“These keys That I tap For sonic delight And literary sunlight Produce packets Of ancient lore Covered by cobwebs of thought-bore I ...”