Tag: love

  • Post-Valentine’s Day Sonnet

    I think I’m letting go of the unsettling past with every tick and tock of the old clock, with each  sweet, precious moment spent with you. I’m holding fast  to rhythms, patterns, and things I’d deemed out of reach;  songs, sequences, and echoes promising much more than dying haunts — the yellowing grass and spoilt…

  • Burnt copper leaves

    1 As we passed   the paddy fields  on our way  to the Nilgiris,  their burnt copper leaves  interspersed with sickly green   evoked a sense of belonging   in me. A oneness  with creation and perhaps  even the Creator.   I was listening to John Mayer’s  Slow Dancing in a Burning Room   and…