PIGEON TALK

GLORY TO PIGEON:

Greedy Pigeon!

Don’t fight with your wife!

Give her some rice

You’ve chased away the sparrows

Why’s your outlook so narrow?

Learn charity and kindness

Don’t act like Royal Highness

And you’d better meditate

Your stress levels aren’t great

Your eyes are so red

It’s time you went to bed

PIGEON TO GLORY:

Kurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

 

HOW FAR

I wonder how far I can go?

she wondered

Not this far, I said,

Really? So it's that far then!

And by that far she meant

The whole world

 

HEART WORDS

Heart words beat wise quotes any time

strangers most of you, yet

somethings resonate, don't they

in a world of changing equations

yet, global, reachable, connected

yet not redefined

friendship remains based on mutual

love, respect and trust.

 

LIFE AND LEMONS

Lemon-colored negligee, hair tousled

don't care that my window is open

the street outside empty,

quarantined and anxiously scanning oximeters -

measuring each breath while regrets pile up.

Pour myself a glass of warm water

with lemon and honey - just so, the lemon

let Sunlight in...and Air...

Can Covid fly in too with lemon Sunlight?

Neighbor's doors strung Neem leaves guarantee

purity with lemon Sunlight that might be closing in on Doomsday

that is not because of Big Bang but because the Human Race has lost the ability to breathe and talk of the Second Coming of Jesus now

they of the Making who World Wared I & II

whole cities shot down and Twin Towers bombed.

And I, in my lemon-colored negligee

sit idly sipping tea wondering when I'd be able to travel again? -

Not travel per se but the option to

meanwhile choose and choice being between Swiggy and Zomato while watching Netflix.

 

POINTING

I mean it God

when I say I don't want to hurt

I don't to be unforgiving

but when someone comes along

deliberately gloating, hurting

taunting, flaunting, jaunting

counting, daunting

can you wonder that I'm pointing?

but know it's not who I am

It's my anger speaking up for me

So, God, know I mean it

when I say I don't want to hurt

I don't want to be unforgiving.

 

MEASURING TAPE

You, the Queen, I, the crumb 'neath the table—

Non-existent

till you heard them exclaim I was beautiful

smart and talented.

And then you noticed, startled.

Is that when

you started measurement points

next to my natural growth points?

For each time I lost, I shrunk in your eyes

once again

to the crumb on the floor.

For each time I won

you pretended you didn't know...

Did it help ease the pain of when you felt you didn't 'measure up?'

 

So absorbed in your game

of measuring up and down my measurements

you forgot your own—

that you were beautiful too!

And smart and talented.

Futile traits now I guess—'cause

you are now just a Measuring Tape.

I wish I knew how to set you free of your misery—

from the price you've paid for knowing me.

And I'm sorry for the pain I've caused you

albeit unwittingly for I was only a child

Even now

I wouldn’t know how to try though...'cause

I still don't know how to measure.