nine things tagged “poetry”
On Non-Being
Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel; yet it is its center that makes it useful. You can mould clay into a vessel; yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows from the walls of a house; but the ultimate use of the house will depend on that part where nothing exists.…
Guncha Koi
by Mohit Chauhan
We Are But One
I saw this at the hospital my little niece was born in. It was offered as gift to the maternity unit by a “grateful former patient” and is a Farsi poem by Saadi Shirazi called “Bani Adam”. Here are the first few lines: Human Beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence and soul If one…
Man O To
by Nu
Nanati Bratuku Natakamu
by Annamacharya
Worlds Beyond the Stars
Dil Se, written and directed by Mani Ratnam, is one of my all-time favorite movies. I still consider its soundtrack to be A R Rahman’s greatest work. It’s just magnificent stuff. When I was 15, I remember seeing the movie’s trailer1 and being awestruck by this haunting background song2 that didn’t…
The Narcissist’s Prayer
That didn’t happen. And if it did It wasn’t that bad. And if it was That’s not a big deal. And if it is That’s not my fault. And if it was I didn’t mean it. And if I did You deserved it. Unknown…
Home
So, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both. – Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada and Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease. – Naguib Mahfouz…