Shail's Nest

Sand in my shoes Sea breeze in my hair Love in my eyes The reflection in yours. Muted reds of the sun Painting sea and shore. Hovering rain clouds Biding time to burst. Restless sea roaring You and I yearning Waves pounding Our hearts hammering. Hands longing to touch Lips trembling to kiss Infinitesimal moves [...]

A dedication Our love story… Where did it start?? Is it the day you told me you had been searching for me all your life?? Destiny, you said brought us together. There was no going back. Wherever life took us from now on was immaterial. Our paths were now entwined forever. Tere mere sapne ab [...]

Once Mr.Black and his brothers Mr.Blacker and Mr.Blackest are sitting with their cronies, Mr.Darkest Gray, Mr.Darker Gray and Mr.Gray. Night is falling and they are relaxing with a drink. Just then they see some sort of light and then suddenly there is someone standing without. “Who are you?’ asks Mr.Black for he had never seen [...]

I have a roly-poly brother in law. Don’t let those eyes pop out. I am in no mortal danger for making that statement. For one he stays across the ocean in far away lands. For another I am a good year older to him and am confident that respect to elders is something that has [...]

The other day I had been to Bob’s at Shasthamangalam for a long overdue haircut. The boys there were beaming with welcome. “Ma’am, haven’t seen you for quite some time!” Wow, sure felt nice to be remembered even after almost a year of absence. I hadn’t been in, for the past one year having had [...]

Mothers Day is here. Paeans are being sung, odes getting composed, poems being written by most everyone to their mothers and to motherhood in general. Yes, Mothers deserve that and more, no denying the fact Yet I wonder how many have on this day paused to think of those children denied a mother’s love. Oh [...]

You… the hurt I embrace with open arms breathing life into my barren heart filling to the brim joys of love untold permeating my being with the ache of longing making every cell pulsate in pain releasing tears stored deep within lending wings to desire for an unfettered flight igniting passion to rage and flame [...]