Works of RK

Raj, please come out baby, there is a rainbow in the sky. Ya I see that, Its been a while Long while Raj, so long since we saw a rainbow! 18 years, its been 18 years since we saw a rainbow. Do you believe what they say? Yes I do Please! Don’t be so naive, its just grandma’s tale No I believe, I believe that there is a pot of Gold Offo! Then run behind it, tum bhi na! I did once, I chased a rainbow across the river, I found my Gold 18 years ago…. And you know what? What? She still shines as new.

Can I share a story with you? Have I heard it before? I am not sure. Ok, go ahead. Twenty years ago, when I was in school, I fell in love with one of the most beautiful girls in the world.. Do I know this woman? I am not sure. OK She was like a summer breeze, she was like spring time, she was all those things you hear in fairy tales and see in Hollywood Movies. One day, we met outside school and went on a long drive. In one of those lost lanes of life's highways, I kissed her... and that was my first kiss.   Why are you telling me all this? I am not sure Ok When I held her face up close to mine, I smelt her perfume and it was divine. I have never smelt something as memorable as that again. I saw that her lips were pink and not red almost like a Cherry that had lost its blush! and her face was as fair as a Russian Princess. We kissed and the evening sky lit up with stars, the Moon quickly brightened up and lighted her face. I remember that we kissed for eternity. I still remembe

Have two shots of Tequila Down some wine too And once you are high Call me from that loose end of my life, And blame me For this alternate Life! From Life in a Multiverse

Have two shots of Tequila Down some wine too And once you are high Call me from that loose end of my life, And blame me For this alternate Life!

When I feel like writing, You become my muse. When I hold the pen, you flow effortlessly as ink. From memories of you have spawned Every word I ever wrote. Every keyboard I ever tapped made weird sounds, sounded like your name. With every long breath that I take Wafts in the fragrance of your shampooed hair. You are the words the punctuations and the pause. You are the intention, You are also the original cause. 8-July-2010 From Life in a Multiverse

If I were to count the hours we spent together Once sunny silences replaced idle chatter Time would give way to timelessness I would have to borrow another lifetime. June 2009 From Life in a Multiverse

Each Sunflower that follows the Sun Reminds me of my love For you. How could I let you know How much I needed you? Like all those things in the world That live for aeons I am silent too June 2009 From Life in a Multiverse

One hundred poems Over a thousand lines of love All for one who would never read Any of these. Like my love my lines exist In an eternal quest of you. June 2009 From Life in a Multiverse

All my lines, all these years Each one of them, all these words Have been penned for one Who would never read Any of these. Like love my lines exist Irrespective of you. May 2009 From Life in a Multiverse

One neat string seamless and strong That runs through my book of life Tying in togetherness my pages Days, events, years and lifetimes Into small readable chapters. You string my life together Because of you I am Because of you I have A story to tell! Feb 2009 From Life in a Multiverse

I do not want to write about you Writing about you wastes my words And define boundaries In an otherwise infinite world Full of infinite possibilities I do not want to write about you My written word stains The paper where my ink blots And words penned take on meanings That was otherwise not thought Let my words rest in peace Let my worlds survive. 8th of May 2007 From Life in a Multiverse

Every time you know That I am just about to let go: You squeak and shudder and blow Even feign a thunder Before you strike at the door Three loud thumps That mean Please Don’t’ Go. 8th of May 2007 From Life in a Multiverse

When Dreams Start Hurting Ablaze in the daylights of Nagpur I now realize why their Oranges Are a fiery red The color of fire and the Sun. Its a fire so frenzied That this beautiful town with is beautiful roads Clean and neat people Scurry around the streets on bipeds and mopeds attired Like terrorists. Yesterday in my hotel room As I made way for the mistress of sleep to invade I dreamt of us Of the last time I was in Nagpur And we had a softy ice cream @ Haldirams. Fire of all fires My very own dreams Have now started hurting. Nagpur Is on fire. May 2007 From Life in a Multiverse

The seed that I was Ever in waiting For that little warmth Of an astray laughter That warm cuddle Of another Stranger in transit You came along And in the hurried embrace Of those molten moments I bloomed lines Forever flowering Never ending Oct-2008 From Life in a Multiverse

The last time I counted They were nearing forty and going strong One for each year of my life And a half for the rest of me. You wrote them on tissues, on government Stationaries and letter pads, And you wrote them on 15 paisa papers too, Until the e-mail come along. Death come calling Through electronic mails and I Live with my children tending And pretending that there will be more. Your letters, hard and strong. 19-07-03

Weather-beaten though they may be, The leather and the woman in it; It serves the larger goal of withering That relationships undergo, in time, and Some times out of time. I make friends and in time they melt away As friends are wont to do with The sweet fragrances of friendship gone stale. I plant flowers and they bloom To fade With a tired yawn Into the darkling night. I smoke cigarettes and with life They burn the paper Into Inert ash. There’s no reason why, An e-mail should not end everything. The leather of my purse will outlive The girl it has so long imprisoned. 2001 From Life in a Multiverse

If I were to write you a few lines And you were to name them after Some poems you would have read Somewhere in time to forget And be remembered of it again. I would write my name “Rxxxxx” And I will write your name “Sxxxxx” And I will place them at the two ends Of a very white Of a very wide Sheet of paper. And I will write no more. Our lives are our lines And between these few lines Of lost spaces and misplaced punctuations Let us, you an I Help each other make sense Of what remains of us. Rxxxxx       Sxxxxx 2003 From Life in a Multiverse

Clutter of trains Ever running into tunnels. Endless reserves in two our bodies, Passions smoldering in your saffron breasts, A touch, nearness, distant embraces, All sealed with kisses, yet unsealed. Softness of shampooed hairs, Warmth of the eternal fire, Youth lingering in you and me; Shared secrets and the unshared ones. Nxxxx and me, me and her. I think now, my poetry began Then, in some distant wilderness, Among fiery poppies and dew drunk mustards, In the cluttering of the rails In your heart and mine And those withering glances. 2000 From Life in a Multiverse

(In the vernacular, Kitna?  stands for "How Much?" and "Safed Pannon Jithna"  is a response which means "As much as a page of White Paper") I have loved you through the cold midnights Up north; when I used to whisper words Of love through cold telephone lines To keep you warm in me. I have loved you in the sultry heat Of a humid southern drought And in letters tried to water Your thoughts in me. Through seasons without ample reasons I have loved you. Through time, and out of time I have loved you. For such things to go on And on I have defined continuity on my own terms In my love for you. 2000 From Life in a Multiverse

Colors Of The Sun by Rajesh Kumar