Limericks

There was a pleasant old man of Fife
who ate papadums with a knife
Said he what is life
if not full of strife
Knifing papadums pleases the wife.
~~

A young monkey from Bihar
once walked into Tihar
He peeked into the cell
of a very powerful mell
Said he, this is heaven, not hell!

Serendipity

A butterfly does not announce its arrival.
Yet the seeker senses it 
from the tiny moving shadow, 
by the rush of air from the its wingbeats,
by having imagined a thousand times 
how it will be 
when a butterfly does arrive.
~

The Poem

I crafted a poem

with the gleam of a pearl

the salty tang of a teardrop

its length the wisp of hair

tucked behind an earshell.

Some only said-

This is too short.

   ~

Haute Cuisine

The soul splutters and sizzles
like mustard in tadka
The mind is a scrambled egg.
~ 
(12.12.12. special)

 

The Pebble

Lodged in the soft sand of a river bed.

Water flows around me.

Dried leaves and twigs stop at me for a while and then carry on.

Fish nibble at my edges.

I stay where I am- unmoved, unmoving.

And yet, I change

As every second

I join the flow, particle by pebbly particle.

~

This poem was created on an impulse, as a response to the worldwide poetry movement "100 Thousand Poets for Change".