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 [...]

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 ek rang [...]

Once Mr. Black and his brothers Mr. Blacker and Mr. Blackest were sitting with their cronies, Mr. Darkest Gray, Mr. Darker Gray and Mr. Gray. Night was falling and they were relaxing with a drink. Just then they see some sort of light and then suddenly there is someone standing without.
“Who are you?’ asks [...]

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 [...]

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
tempering me
in its victorious blaze.
With open arms
I embrace
the hurt
You…
-Shail Mohan (Aug 2007)