Poem: Fragments of You

How many times have we shattered into fragments? Like the mountain ground into sand, or the stars turning into stardust. Yet, the fragments are all over the place — yours and mine.

These verses are a beautiful dalliance of our poetry duet from a distance, filled with care, friendship, and respect.

I broke my poetry hibernation once I saw this poem. There are a hundred poems by favorite poets Bev Sanbrooke, Shobhana Kumar, Priya Patel, and Chloe that I have missed. This poem floated toward me when I came up for air.

Poem: Falling stars

How was I to be
Time stopped, you stopped, but I’m here;
quietly broken

Small fragments of me
are buried within your tears
Only I will know

And all of your dreams
are tattooed in my eyelids
Falling moonlit stars

~ ©️ Priya Patel 3.28.25 🕉

I walk to the balcony and gaze at the moonlit stars. Then I see her, the poet Priya. She must have seen the same stars too.

Poem: Piecing you together

I walk here in the summer sky,
Among the scattered stars
Picking up those shining fragments
Those pieces that made you
Like those of a jigsaw puzzle
Putting together your image
That I have held in my heart
It’s a life long project
But I will be at it, dear, forever.

~Ashok Subramanian © 2025

Priya must have also thought that this guy must be coming out of the woods after a long time.

Poem: Words as glue

How blessed I am;
knowing, as peices of me,
the shattered fragments
that are scattered within me;
are safe in the palms of your heart
We have invisible bonds that only
those who can reach through clouds,
and can touch through words,
could ever possibly see through
our storms to the rainbow …

~ ©️ Priya

Then, I top it up this time and she lets me have the last word.

Poem: Unheard Thunder, Sparky Lightening

Storms that form in our lives
Look little from my distance
I don’t hear the thunder rumble
The lightning afar looks like sparkles
Yet, the feeling is the same
The heart aches for your happiness
The winking stars laugh at this
But they are already pieces of you
In their laugh, I see yours
So, the lightning and thunder
Look too small, even if so near

~Ashok Subramanian © 2025

“You care and its all over the place.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters