Tree Song

I wait at the circle where the roads halt
some of the trees I know sing a tune at noon
when vehicles and dust are more settled..
I will teach you how to listen, come along
a moment in stillness and the tree song

Lotus

A boat full of lotus and pink morning
he reaches out to pick another.
As the leaves of lotus surrender
she watches and wonder
if someone, once, cared.

Home

To see from where the sky falls
learn to hear from the butterflies
they'll guide you to a secret bridge
to come to mountains
my home.

Subjects

I have a dream

to learn the language
of smoky water
leaving a home
reaching me at the river
a longing

to teach geography
how a longing evolves
on surfaces
making seas

to sit in a classroom
full of weather
drawing a longing
on graph paper.

Science

He stands at the edge of the world
from where the rivers fall
into space

She stands at the edge of the mountains
from where the rivers fall
into earth

He wants to jump
to reach her
but our discoveries in science
haven't told us yet
if the rivers move in a loop.

The Sea Inside

make me out of madness
dressed in summer humidity
my eyes explode
my hands explode
the lights explode
it is dark inside me
it is dark inside me
take my insanity
from deep inside me

तुम्हारी नाराजगी

तुम्हारी नाराजगी भी तुमसे हँसी कम नहीं
मैं और करीब होता हूँ ज़हन में
तुम चुपचाप शिकायत कर देती हो
मैं लिख लेता हूँ तुम्हारी उँगलियों से
अपना नाम, मुजरिम
मीठी मीठी बातों का
तुम भी यही तो कहती हो
मैं और करीब होता हूँ ज़हन में
जब प्यार से गुस्सा करती हो...

Dream Keeper

In a pen holder she keeps her dreams
words not written, not yet destroyed

Broken

I keep in my heart

Every little part

Of what's broken inside you.

Note

In her dreams, she is a princess
waiting to wake up..

Cotton

She is sky reluctant
hold her like the water
weave her out of winter
she is cotton in the field
like streams of water
hold her like a stream
weave her a dream..