All in a day’s work

cautious work does not enable extreme learning and fractured bones are caused by lack of use creating code makes a monotonous ticking sound and survival is best tested through daily assessment recognition of your own reward criteria triggers DNA modification and ice packs barely sedate tired hurting eyelids rhythmic hours that clock a parallel streaming into

for sanah, my prayer

of sanah your beauty breaking its way through slits in the skyline tears choke your hurrah and then lend an edge to its misty glow fatigue marinates itself into a rare restful sleep navigating the tumble of heart and soul you draw your freedom in a myriad crayon shades as inane fleeting deadlines intercept your compelling

This Fall

Me Fall is freezing over the chill reminded me to pause and gather myself into the harmony before it was too late gazing inwards Smoky shadow highlights eyes like the silver peaks peep atop the trees garbled colors of a marble cake mock the evaporating shades outside Mimosa’s and Sangria’s in decanters gingerly dance and

Coming of age

Coming of age Ample grace Retreating glances Generous tales Wounded obligations Brilliant emptiness Tamed performances Bleeding cuticles Altered migraines Daring intentions Bright suspicions Scrubbed sentiments Lethal vulnerability Ample exhaustion Decisive determination Failed seduction Lingering eroticism Subjugated imagination Luxurious rage Marked coherence Coming of age the eyes that smile in wrinkles that line milky ways and

Birthday scrapbook

Birthdays of annual pomp and blessings of marching musical brass bands in ensemble and delectable biscuit cakes in the fridge Birthdays of perennial miracles and grace   Hors-d’oeuvre and a thousand treats favors to return in magical bags gladness of games and streaming balloons Birthdays of annual pomp and blessings   Tunes to sing and songs

my collection of cities

Cities atlanta chicago new delhi hyderabad mt.abu kohima jalandhar patna boston and many others bring to me dreams and shadows, crease lines of smiles and furrows near my brows, mischief music and sobering jolts, ideas that empower and distant tolling bells, waves of invigorating memories, meteoric force that propels blood to the edges of my pulse

the bleeding womb

I was surprised when the walls around me tightened Encasing life waiting to sprout hope defined by the kicking gulps soon to be crawling out through the birth canal   9 months of playing entertainer in charge culminate into an intense hormonal orchestra I introduce the world through sounds since there is no such thing

Kaleidoscope

Height genes played strong towering over the pull of gravity eyes ablaze at the illusion Accent just expressions they gathered in the love of a land waves of voices in protest Communities eyes wet in collective shock acknowledge each other’s loss walk in silent chains of arms Food is a wonderful prayer served in recuperating bowl

Mavericks and Hurricanes

Hurricanes let loose mavericks at play   hijacking lives out of homes hashing out arbitary pardons hosting criminal robes in hearts not prisons tranquility greeting torture traumatizing storms through miles tiring relentless political monotone torn apart mankind by betrayal of faith Blinded by foggy venom blowing winds closing in the devil Bastardizing votes and forefather

hukm*

Acceptance is when you stop asking why why becomes a lifelong gift when luck is not about you rather about him when your focus shifts from flight or fight to fulfillment when love is the moment your eyes meet not satiation of yearning rather continuation of yielding it is letting go and letting in promising