Love is the eye of the needle To be smaller is what I want. But the needle pricks me and I grow big So big that I get thrown out of my own room. Tortured, writhing, I seek to get back inside And to become small, Smaller, Into the eye, Vanish.
Category: Romance
THE BEAUTIFUL SUICIDE OF MEERA
“Meera!” She is in love. She was in love. She would always be in love. Always. She puts her left palm on her heart as a gesture of promise to him. Always. They can take away her life but they cannot take away that. She looks at the shallow silver cup before her that contains […]
OF DREAMS AND MULTICOLORED DRAGONS
At other times she was like me. Dreaming strange things and feeling proud about it. She dreamed of a curve once. It was a white curve to begin with, but every time it looped up, it changed colors. When you touched it drops of colors fell on you. She was not very tall and in […]
PARTINGS
When I found her I was overjoyed. Or rather she found me. Most of the times it happened that way. She was the active one, doing things, taking decisions, defining boundaries. Let’s go to the beach, we shouldn’t talk right now, let’s part. She was the one who left me. We parted at her insistence. […]
FRENCH KISS (2007)
I had a French Kiss Oh with a French miss And her soft French lips Were oh! so piping hot That when she kissed me A little teased me Oh it so pleased me Leave her for a moment I could not!
COUPLET FROM A MIR’S GHAZAL
Every leaf is aware, every bud knows Of this love of mine; But for the flower For whom I pine, The whole garden sees my woes Patta patta jaane hai, boota boota jaane hai, Jaane na jaane bas gul hee na jaane, baagh toh saara jaane hai
10 REASONS NOT TO DATE AN ENTREPRENEUR – A TONGUE IN CHEEK RESPONSE
A Tongue-In-Cheek response to the article “Ten Reasons To Date An Entrepreneur” doing the rounds of FB. See the original article here: http://love-not-fear.org/2011/12/02/ten-reasons-to-date-an-entrepreneur/Guidelines: 1) This article is not to be taken seriously by either entrepreneurs or sane people 2) Entrepreneurs shall take a pledge of not murdering me before reading this. Full Disclosure: I am […]
LOVE AND THE ART OF BICYCLE RIDING
Did you ever ride a bicycle on a lonely stretch of road – at midnight in the shadow of trees, when the moon is softly bathing the world in its light like a hallowed sage smiling kindly upon a confused disciple? Well, at first you go leisurely, for you can’t see much further. The breeze […]
THE ART OF GIVING A ROSE
And then there was the matter of the rose. There were nine days more to go when I decided upon the D-day, and I am certain that there would be few generals who would have planned as much even for a battle as I did for the declaration of my love. Truly it was no […]