Poetry
POETRY / Prayers of a mother for the sons and daughters on the street
justice—where is justice?
POETRY / Rebel is a letter in red
Where voices unite, a chorus strong, / Demanding justice, righting wrong
POETRY / Lone house around the bend
Your grief rots the decades old paint and the lakhri no one bothered to replace. Even across the road, it reeks of death.
POETRY / The three day wake
‘You must bury / yourself / Every three days’ / She said, / ‘Corpses are of / No use
POETRY / Colours
Echoes of your voice ring in my ears / As the world turns scarlet in front of my eyes
POETRY / Monsoon osmosis
I inhale the luxurious scent / of squelched earth / smoking under the sodden leaves
POETRY / Wonder
I feel my rage, ma, a living thing;/ A beast, caged, like me
POETRY / All that I shouldn’t have known
What I wish I didn’t know is that when your dear friends whisper the word “psycho” behind your back, you’ll grow up accepting it.
POETRY / Omniscient
Skin sticky with perspiration from a long month of June
Prayers of a mother for the sons and daughters on the street
justice—where is justice?
Rebel is a letter in red
Where voices unite, a chorus strong, / Demanding justice, righting wrong
The three day wake
‘You must bury / yourself / Every three days’ / She said, / ‘Corpses are of / No use
Lone house around the bend
Your grief rots the decades old paint and the lakhri no one bothered to replace. Even across the road, it reeks of death.
Monsoon osmosis
I inhale the luxurious scent / of squelched earth / smoking under the sodden leaves
Colours
Echoes of your voice ring in my ears / As the world turns scarlet in front of my eyes
Wonder
I feel my rage, ma, a living thing;/ A beast, caged, like me
All that I’d despicably known / Things I wish I didn’t know
All that I’d despicably known / Things I wish I didn’t know–
Omniscient
Skin sticky with perspiration from a long month of June
All that I shouldn’t have known
What I wish I didn’t know is that when your dear friends whisper the word “psycho” behind your back, you’ll grow up accepting it.
