Any normal human being tends to look at the reality and at any thing as it is. However, why the aesthetic sense or supra-sense makes an artist or a poet to look at the things in a different way? why beholding the Moon as the face of the beloved and vice versa? … May be that is what is known as eccentricity!… So, goes the poem "ECCENTRI"CITY’"!…
Continue ReadingLetters from father are just that, except my dad is not your average dad and the letters he writes are not your average letters.
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Continue ReadingThis story opens on a sunny day. The camera moves in focusing on the little old woman sitting in silence at her outdoor garden table gazing straight ahead as if in deep thought. The gentle hot breeze is thick. It carries the scent of roses through the fruit orchard, and then mingles into the neighbor’s freshly mowed lawn. The birds are chirping. The feeling is one of tranquility…
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Continue ReadingA poem about freedom.
Continue ReadingThe whole thing started with a call at about 11am. I was loading bike frames on to the conveyor belt. Bend, grab, stretch, hang. Over and over. After a few days, you get into the rhythm. I could have been sitting in a deckchair, daydreaming on the beach.
“There’s a phone call for you.” The foreman was annoyed. You work in a factory, the world goes away until the siren signals end of shift. The foreman would be doing the bend, grab, stretch and hang routine, while I spoke on the phone, like some boss, or office worker.
The call was from my mother. She wanted me to meet her in Birmingham, for lunch. I tried to explain that there was no time. I had to get a bus there, and a bus back. She didn’t seem to understand. “Don’t worry,” she told me, “just meet me at Snow Hill station, I’ll take you to the Wine Lodge. “It’s on me.”
Continue ReadingA poem of expression.
Continue Reading“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I’m all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I’ll always remain half crazy.” ~ Vincent van Gogh.
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