The Parting

THIS too the conqueror of the worlds must dare, for this could be his greatest conquest.
Walking into an unknown realm through a dumb despairing night, his hubris unblemished.
Virtue was to his mind an act of sin ignorant folk practiced for the lack of tutelage from the evil jinn
A dire administrator’s…

Koushik R in grookage

Apr 22, 2016

Chandramukhi

An evening of desire and passion compelled her mortal birth,
Only those responsible chose to retire from the crudeness of life thereafter,
Abandoning her to the mighty Ganges, they rode into the infinite.
Like an aristocrat of immortality, she had shown onto the shore,
With a squeaky little cry, a cheeky…

Koushik R in grookage

Mar 28, 2016

The Singularity of us

I sought out solitude, yearned and craved for it;
For I thought it would fill me up with infinity.
Instead I find myself doped up; the eternal universe
When stared into, instead of life’s goals and glories
Manifests an infinite grief — at such depth
I’m terrified by my own thought.

Koushik R in grookage

May 18, 2015

Finding ….

Those lonely dark hours in the night
Those meals eaten alone
When the mind wandered, those misty days
In the press of people traveled, looking for arbitrary endpoints
Many times have we traveled thus
Now we fight for legroom, not bother the eternal ridicule for that
Oh time! strange strange things you do to…

Koushik R in grookage

Aug 23, 2015

Suvarnabhumi, indeed

To those of you wondering, it is neither a new whim of mine nor a fancy; but just a mere recollection of the past. Well, I was going through one of my old books and I came across the following verse. I wrote this when I was waiting for a flight at the Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok. I re-read…

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