I am super excited to announce that my book of poetry, “Eating the Worm,” published by ATLA is now available on Amazon! 🙂  In India, the link is: India  In UK and EU, go to UK  And for my friends in the the USA and thereabouts US. And do leave a review, friends, I would…
Category: poetry
Phanush (Sky-lantern)Â
If I walked to the ledge where the sun sets, would I fall off the edge of the earth? Or are my words merely mechanical toys on which you build home and hearth? I had a dream once but it shattered left me clawing at the one who gave me birth. Now I try to…
Little big mouth
I want to write poetry Like the masters write them Supplicate thoughts for sounds And emotions for words I want to write like I feel Like when the bitch in me Finds a dog burrowing in the sand Only the sand is not the coarse yellow soil It is the sky. And the dog is…
HappinessÂ
Are you happy, they asked. I smiled at them. Did you find happiness, they asked. I nodded, yes, Where did you find it, still they asked, Was it hard to find? I found happiness in my heart Deep within the corner of an eye. In the gleam of a quiet smile. In the hands that…
Sole-fully.Â
I saw an ad for a shoe ‘One sole several straps’ One can change colours, One of life’s many hacks. I paused, amused by the line Your face shimmered before me Un-synchronized in time and space A glint, a smile only I could see. I reached out, “I am ready,” I said Take me away…
ipsita banerjee 