Author Archives: Echoes of the soul

Takiye ka Geelapan (Wet pillows)

दर्द छिपाओगे तो, कहीं तो निकलेगा  पूछेंगे वो जो हाल, तो क्या बतलाओगे? ——- कहीं तो नज़र आयेगा वो आँसू  तकिये का गीलापन, कैसे छिपाओगे? —- मान गए वो, कहा करलो अपने मन की,  सोच लो पूरी तरह से, क्या फिर भी कर पाओगे ? —- क्यों रखी ऐसी फ़रियाद, उनसे कौन पूछेगा ता उम्रContinue reading “Takiye ka Geelapan (Wet pillows)”

it’s Heaven

Hey hey heyOpen your eyesThis is heaven It’s everythingThat heaven can beFluffy cloudsStrumming harpsand some merry wineI am happyI am born in heaven Let’s have some funTill there is still time Winged angelsAre a mythNo better than Humming beeFew things you pay forMany a thing Are there for freeI am happyI am born in heavenContinue reading “it’s Heaven”

Nothing like Lear

To do justice to an awesome play act Nothing Like Lear by Rajat Kapoor—performed (brilliantly) by Vinay Pathak I needed a couple of Haiku 17 syllables were just ain’t enuf so here it is… Mixed in funny tearsAlas t’was ‘nothing like Lear’ We waited for Shakespeare Then it was revealed A magic trick so realt’wasContinue reading “Nothing like Lear”

I am learning still

Describe something you learned in high school. what I learned was not part of the books I sat dreamy looking more outside the window than inside The scratches of the chalk and the shrill voice of the teacher were sometimes a distraction or sometime a bizarre music there I learned to live in my headContinue reading “I am learning still”