Wednesday, June 03, 2020

An Angry Roseate sonnet

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An angry roseate sonnet Those who say All lives matter You b********* You b******* Where were you, in our land When Muslims, Dalits an...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Prompt 25 A Window Story

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I have used 13 lines, a half-line, and a phrase lines from Tennyson to rewrite a story that I felt should have been, long ago. My words a...

Prompt 23 Mirror (given by Lopa Banerjee)

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PROUD TO BE ALL WOMAN She stands before it She lets her clothes fall She lets her hair loose Rich clusters of black snakes Tum...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Donatello - 3

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22 Prompt - 4th offering - with Sunita Singh Donatello Donatella Was she the one on whom you played cello The woodwin...

On Donatello's Mary Magdalene - 2

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Prompt 22 - Second offering - with Sunita Singh THIS IS PENITENT ME That is not Mary of Magdalene. That is Donatello himself revealing...

For the daily wage workers -an elegy

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Prompt 22 - Third offering - Sunita Singh's prompt, done with poetic license.  The sculptor is Bruno Catalano. WHEN THEY NO LONGER GA...

April 22 TSL Prompt Write on Donatello's Mary Magdalene

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Hear my cry Hear my cry, O Lord Attend unto my prayer I came from Magdala, a city a bit far to Capernaum, where the lilies g...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Prompts day 21 TSL April 21, Prayer, Friendship (Given by Satbir Chadha)

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Prayer is silence God is Silence ********************************************************************************* Friendship I ...
Monday, April 20, 2020

TSL PROMPT Day 21 April 21 Prayer (given by Satbir Chadha)

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Prompt day 21 - Prayer (with  Satbir Chadha ) She used to pray. She would just sit on her bed in her small bedroom and fold her hands and...

Napowrimo day 20 April 20 TSL Prompt "My mother, my best reader" ( A tribute to the writer Sara)

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TSL PROMPT 20 (a lovely prompt by  Udita Garg  - thanks for this Udita, grateful!) My Mother, my Best Reader (a tribute to the writer Sar...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Sundry poems and other jottings good, bad and indifferent

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Glopowrimo #2 - from FB memories April 2 2017 ("Prompt: transform the natural world into an unsettled dream-place. One way to do it ...

TSL Prompt Day 19 - A light hearted poem

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Prompt 19 - First poem on it Three hoodlums were seen one day On the streets of Hamelin* Don't ask me why in thick, don't as...