Ruminations in Quarantine

Mud Kar Dekho

Saari hasti hui aankhen Masoom si baatein Logon ki charchaa Badalte hue khayaal Mud kar dekho Man ki Muraad Is badalti bigadti awaara zindagi mein Bheed ke beech, ghani tanhaai mein Aankhen na modo Mud kar dekho Rangeen sunhari shaamein Masti bhari hawaaien Mehfil jashn-e-jahan Dhunon mein lipte kadam Mud kar dekho Dilon ki khwaishein…

An Adventure

An Adventure Starts with circumstances Beginning with whatever was dealt Nothing you could have controlled Or had the chance to choose Others join in Some by chance, some by choice, some by coincidence Riding alongside you Companions, compatriots, confidants Then arrives a conflict Riddled with confusion, dilemmas and difficulties Your something precious at stake Threatened…

Those women

Searching for a prompt for today's poem, I wanted something that was more than a word. A thought experiment or a trigger and while browsing around, started thinking about women on screen. This poem is about some of the amazing women captured on screen. Women on screen I would want to be Striking up a…