Rambles, Rhymes and Tales

the taste was sour and sweet, a smooth, compelling aroma filled my mouth and nose, the texture was silky, a ...

the lover had a question:will you love me forever?what is forever, asked the windwhere is forever, mused the leafin the ...

Have you seen it, have you seen it anywhere go? It always would be with me, now it’s not anymore ...

I stepped onto the verandah And felt the change in the air A cool, mystic feeling Had spread everywhere A ...

I woke up early in the morning. Somehow I knew it was early in the morning. But, one thing I ...

my mother was not fond of cooking. i do not recall her toiling over the stove for hours to make ...

My dreams were small, never so big When you show a big dream, I don't know what to do with ...

more than 3,300 years ago it is believed, god gave the torah to the jewish people on mount sinai. shavuot ...

Dealing with reservations is a part of life. Whether one needs it or not, it is inescapable. Whenever I fill ...

my world collapses every now and then in the middle of an afternoon under an indolent sun when the air ...

It is always hard for a new mother, whose maternity leave is about to end and they have to go ...

she'd not seen yellow butterflies take over the strawberry patch or the beds of nasturtiums, dog flowers, and phlox in ...

sometimes, i think, just let it go even if most certainly absolutely positively you know something someone’s saying is not ...

we think we can replace everything. friends, pets, kidneys, countries, even computers. no, seriously. lost someone? broken something? house taken ...

Many many years ago, so many that I no longer remember how many, I remember writing an essay for my ...

it stood on the shelf in its plastic pot among a row of plants you could buy for a few ...

my soldier, you are goneto paradise or beyond this universe’s realmi have no way of knowingthe aching winds bring news ...

i've burnt with you slowly, sustainedly in scorches, in conflagration in flames i have burnt with you incinerating cremating my ...

Did you ever wonder, sometimes on a busy day Why a little longer, some moments would not stay? Catch those ...

i don't think the "god's own country" campaign had started when i first went to kerala. it was in the ...

i don't look at you any more for i think you're the same every day yet you aren't, are you ...

Sometimes I wonder, how the future would be Sometimes I ponder on the lines of a fantasy With not just ...

Last night, in a jumble of dreams, I danced... I was back in the newly built school auditorium. Now that ...

i am grateful for the silence in the night as a i sleep there are no gunshots from near or ...