Shail's Nest

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 [...]

Women cannot read maps, they say, and men do not ask for directions. I cannot vouchsafe for the veracity of the first part of this statement, the opportunity of testing it having not risen in this two score and odd years of my life on Planet Earth. I am willing to admit though that perhaps [...]

Rebuttals stand guard
glinting knives in hands
Refusals choke into silence
Rebuffs with axes hack.
Wounded limbs chopped
lesions and cuts adorning
thrashing for life
lies frail Spontaneity.
Dwindling hope flickering
in eyes beseeching
to live to survive
in a world hostile.
Are its days numbered
the hours limited
Is time ticking
will Spontaneity be no more??
Shall it be sacrificed
at the altar of Rejection
meet an ignominious end
and die bereft, unmourned??
- [...]

Feelings trapped within
like birds with stunted wings
unable to soar
not knowing how to fly
flap useless wings
so hard they try.
Will you be my wings my love
and teach me to fly
let me roam the skies
free as any bird that flies..
When I am tired
I’ll return to nest
in the circle of your arms
your sweet embrace
for you are my dream
my heaven [...]

I have lost something
Can you find it for me??
Looked for it everywhere
But found it nowhere!!
Close to myself
Never out of my sight
Away from prying eyes
I had hidden it so well.
Misused and battered
Injured and hurt
wounded and damaged
marred and impaired,
was the way I found it
when I lost it before.
Since then have I kept it
locked and away
from any who [...]