Travel Tales and a Pet

It has been so long since I wrote anything that these words feel guilty to even being typed. What a year it was! It is a majestic mixture, when regular banal happenings collide with sudden changes of plan but it did bring a lot of stories. One such change was the addition of a member, our beloved kitten, Zeus. Unfortunately had to give him up for adoption soon. Thus the travel tales begin, an exile in a different place, once again, to make a new...

12 Years After

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Banished

I see the seven colours hovering in the sky, flying free. The surroundings are muted because of all the sudden surge of colours and chaos But it was short-lived this merry making When freedom becomes disenchanted, And dignity seized away: Love reigns inside. How can one patrol our desires? Fury seethes inside and tears away,  Caustic reactions aplomb - The war has begun now. Colours cannot be controlled. Desires rush to...

The Yellow Window

Suddenly Ibrahim's eyes notice the glass-walled lone room inside that crowded house full of people and children. Strangely, the room was left undisturbed by all the chaos around it. Through the glass wall he could clearly see the deep blue of the sea against the yellow of the large Russian carved window frame and the waviness of the splashing water, contoured by the deep green leaves of the large Mahua tree.  Ibrahim at that...

Sand, Sea Shells, Foam, Blue

Of all the intersecting lines in the sand I routed a labyrinth to your lap. I never used a map sliding off the land On an incidental tide, And along the way you know, they try They try. The Shins An Unicorn in my Dream Photobomb Little 'Neel' ...