POETRY
"I am writing this to you,
my friend, my lover,
betrayer and the betrayed
I thought I owed this to you
and you thought you owed me nothing"
Read Angst, Rusty Truck Zine
Poet
The poet’s house
went from
verse to verse
Farewell
Goodbye and leave me
Leave me in the inertia of leaving
Leave me when you progressively travel
A bit of you at every milestone
You may be some numeric miles from Russia,
And a few dollars from US
While I’ll not move an inch
And transpire into nothingness
Leave me to strew my poems
Over a famous Irish Coffee
Over there in Mussoorie
When a Room still waits for me
For me, For me
The train stands there
The dogged passengers lift their holidays
And I go blank
Taking a holiday from holidays
The seedy night bars at Mumbai
Where beer smuggles unwillingly
A smoke-choked lung coughs out sea shells
There, there, I lie falsely loved
Do not wait for me, am long long gone
Gone with the Mumbai Monsoons
Gone with violent terror on missing the right station
Gone with simple insanity
Gone with ill smelling pleasure
So when you come looking for your reclaimed guilt
I am gone, long gone, gone for ever.
Cheshire Trains
I come back home with neon animals
And gasoline burning my insides
The gentleman tilts his head
To the rushing track
It carries away his brain
He leans back, and smokes a little less
By then the sands have settled down
And books are up for burning
The train rumbles in
And leaves me in rapid light years
Read my poems at The Cottage Reader
Haikus from Free Poetry Series #1, Ragged Lion Press
Read my poems at The Coldnoon Quarterly
'Father' Published by: Sore Dove Press, San Fracisco
7 poems, each bound as a book in black leatherette, 20x13 cm (8x5"), all housed in a handmade drop back box. Each poem No. 4 of 12 signed and numbered copies. First Edition. Each book is signed by the respective poet. The poets included are: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Ann Menebroker, Belinda Subraman, Father Luke, Sreemanti Sengupta and Soheyl Dahi. A scarce collection, handsomely presented. The collection was titled after a phrase from my poem. Read it below:
Few of my haikus were translated to French by celebrated collagist Bruno Sourdin. Read them here.
'Losing Friends' a poetry collection was published on Oct. 2019, by Alien Budha Press 2.0. You can get a copy here!
Below is me reading some poems from the book. Read the complete review in Don Yorty's blog!
Father
I don’t know
what or how to
tell you things
It’s harder now
when you’re not there
suffering had made
you so gallant
that I cringed under it
like a leper rolling bidis
only I, I was too painful
my mind had exploded
I have your last gasps
I have everything you can
smile about and destroy
the shards out of me
And yet you look at me
out of obscure photographs
with your handsome smile
leaving no room for a debate
If I have killed you
I have loved you too
I don’t know which goes first
You never left a note
Read my poems at FEARLESS 72
let me sit in the
dark and think
about killing myself
and yet I find
they’ve broken the
latch to my door,
Read Suicide Diaries at Mad Swirl
See original artwork and read poem up at VERSIFICATION's 'DEGENERATE DECEMBER' issue. Live HERE
Read 'Ode to the Traveller we're all afraid of'' at San Pedro River Review. Print copies available here