4 days ago

Poem Review: Winter Collection

I love snowy winters. Since COVID happened, I yearn to get back to the snowy climes. But I am still in Chennai, a tropical city, whose cold is at best mildly pleasant weather. (Imagine the summers.) I am, therefore, winter blind — bereft of the experience. But, as they say…

Poetry Review

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Poetry Review

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Jan 26

Poem: Love and Time (Bilingual)

My bilingual journey seems to be catching my imagination. I rely on Google translation to write my Tamil Poetry ( I use the English fonts to get the Tamil Literation). Love is timeless, but the lovers can get lost in time. This is the essence of poem. Poem: Love and Time ( English) Time still in…

Love

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Love

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Jan 26

Book Review: Bone in the Throat

Three things attracted me to this book. First, the author. Anthony Bourdain, the celebrated American Chef. I have watched a few episodes of his controversial show ‘No Reservations’. He was a master chef, a rebel, a preserver of culinary art, and a specific aversion towards peer master chefs and the…

Anthony Bourdain

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Anthony Bourdain

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Jan 24

Poem: The Daily Business

My days are getting crazier. No time to write poetry reviews, my favorite deed of the day. So what about some cribbing? I wrote this poem after cribbing and I got the same back. Two crazy people just sucked up at daily work. Poem: The Daily Business How busy are our lives Thinking we are the…

Daily Life

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Daily Life

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Jan 22

Poem: Abhinaya Arangetram ( Tamil)

January 22, 2023 will remain etched in my memory. It is my first poem in Tamil, and my first recital in Tamil on an august stage. I wrote this poem in Tamil, extempore, inspired by the beautiful graduation performance called ‘arangetram’, in a structured format. My wife, Gayathri is an…

Tamil

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Tamil

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Jan 18

Poem: Butterfly, my soul being.

Magz Alden is a new connect, but like Elizabeth (Beth) Urabe, she is turning out to be my soul sister. There is something special about her poetry. Here is her piece of verse that started it all. But free Paper thin, precarious delicate, but free Your soul whisper, incline my…

Butterfly

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Butterfly

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Jan 14

Poem: Critical Opinion

George Bernard Shaw said ‘Cricket is a game played by 11 fools and watched by 11000 fools.’ Somebody quoted this when saying that cricket is not a revered game anymore. It was filled with powerplay, politics, money, drugs, and greed. Why do people paint everything with the same brush? If…

Opinion

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Opinion

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Jan 12

Poem: The Violets of the Winter

POV : — Poet’s pangs. Instead of raiding the fridge or the kitchen cabinet, I dabbled with words. Still hungry, but I can now sleep. Result: A beautiful creative; and a hugging piece. The poem travels from white to the blues and finally the violet. ( The season to the sinking feeling to…

Poem

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Poem

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Poem: The Violets of the Winter

POV :

Poet’s pangs. Instead of raiding the fridge or the kitchen cabinet, I dabbled with words. Still hungry, but I can now sleep.

Result: A beautiful creative; and a hugging piece. The poem travels from white to the blues and finally the violet. ( The season to the sinking feeling to…

Jan 12

Poem: Borrowed Time

Point of view: — 4 am, morning. I was thinking about the early morning Video call with a client in Seoul and lost sleep. Then a word jumped in and a verse. Slow, sure but sad. I played along and once I finished, I went to sleep. I feel that the person who is…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Jan 9

My Rainbow Bridge: Journal 1

It took sometime for me to put this together, as I come up on the 6th month of the manuscript of my novel, ‘My Rainbow Bridge’. The novel started as a comeuppance, but slowly turned into an epiphany. It was a subject I dreaded, but I decided to face the…

Novel

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