Mysterious Rose, so fragile your thorns Let me comfort you softly Hold you safe from the storm So soulful your petals So gently you rise Most beautiful woman With brown Angel eyes Mysterious Rose, so caring your soul Let me feel you beside me, so I can be whole So real is your beauty So [...]
Mysterious Rose
She pulled herself out of the water
She pulled herself out of the water, nails digging into the soggy riverbank, choking on weeds and coughing up the muck from the riverbed. She lay still for a while, long wet tendrils of her dark hair straggling across her face, her fingers embedded into the moss and leaves beneath her. Her jeans, heavy with [...]
The Promise
1 June 4, 2006. The Lufthansa flight from Newyork landed in Chennai at 2:15 AM, thirty minutes later than the scheduled arrival time. Mohanasundaram was waiting at the arrival terminal with increasing anticipation. He scanned the hundred faces coming out of the airport for his son. After about forty-five minutes, Arun kumar walked out, waving [...]
Mother’s Sweater~
She had over ten beautiful sweaters yet wore her old one with holes around the garden She walked in crispness of the morning awakening with the humming birds when the sun peered out from the sphere always wearing her old sweater. I turn and face the woman who gave me an uplifting wonderful life unconditional [...]
Desiderate…
Time is a torrent and our desires wander immersed In it, sinking and surging at times, helplessly. Desires of an incapable and vulnerable life! We believe the magnificent horizon is so Nearby, at the reach of our hands. When we approach it, it moves away farther Into a distance beyond our reach. We [...]
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