As my junior year of high school comes to a close, so does studying this novel. The year started with the horror stories surrounding the dreaded prescribed reading – “The Shadow Lines” by Amitav Ghosh originally published in 1988. I was all prepared to hate it, and pleasantly surprised when I didn’t. I loved it. […]
The wind struck your body;In the lieu of a stormConjured simply of deep azureSunset pinks and royal purplesThat swirled like secretsIn a lipstick stained wine glass,And tipped and raged out of boundsLike sorry drunken truths.The storm- it let the breeze caress you.And your skin broke into goosebumpsEmbroidered like constellations,Stitched stars that told me storiesOf astronauts […]
Did you see me, watch the snow Fall gently and delicately, From the cerulean sky? I blew the smoke from the cigarettes, That wound up in hypnotic spirals The warmth that khaki uniforms couldn’t find. My hand rested upon the gun The murdering weapon that hid behind labels Of nationalism and protection And when the […]
So I’ve put off reading this book for years. It’s on all the window displays at bookstores and every year when the next book in the series has been released it comes back to the deals section with the bright yellow ‘buy 2 get 1 free’ sticker stuck to the lovely cover. But there are […]
To read the previous installment: LOVE LETTER (3) Sea glass. It’s the polished glass that broke off from green bottles of wine, the clear glass bottles that the milkman would bring home, or the glass that floated into the sea from wrecked ships. Rolling around in the tumultuous seas under the boiling sun and the […]
Tinkling bells that chime without the wind, The to and fro swing, Of slender hips, That sound a unanimous cham-cham On wooden floors and stone stages The gleam of silver against the kesari sky, The telltale sign of a dipping sun. The skimming of toes across the bubbles, Of a still lake, The water rippled […]
They dusted the stars on my eyelids, And coated my skin in the glowing embers of the sky The drew upon my body, A thousand stories And once they had painted my limbs, With the colors of the night and the shooting stars, That seeped deep below the skin Dying my veins and arteries Silver, […]
A caress of strings That touched upon a humid loneliness Broke the silence, in cheery reverberation. An echo, on a crowded street Breaking the hum and buzz of chatter That lingered outside a stone cathedral. Upon whose windows were painted, Gospel women in tinted tessellation Of rainbow. Solemn countenance, that smiled Not even at the […]
I read this classic (the complete version, that is) when I was twelve years old. And it has always been a favorite of mine, tying for first place with Pride and Prejudice, which I could read and watch a thousand times over. And as October dawns dragging in my favourite season along with it, I […]
The impossible seems possible sometime. And I feel it’s better to dream the abstract and the irrational rather than let common sense dictate life. Flying is impossible. Soaring through the sky on your own? Isn’t possible. That when a star goes supernova It bursts into a black hole. And though it slows down time, […]