Category Archives: Poetry
100 percent perfect girl
“One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl” said Haruki Murakami
And I have been searching for the source of these lines for years now in many of Murakami’s books. Today, thanks BD, I have it. The full short story is below, eventhough [...]
Raghu
I found this poem today(via Deepak’s blog), and once again the urge to learn the malayalam keyboard and post in malayalam grows overwhelming. Like there are a few things which you can say only in Malayalam. Like see how a beautiful verse loses its vitality when I attempt to translate it,
Raghu
Raghu says his name is [...]
Alcohol corners of pointless discussion
In spite of his desire to be completely forgotten, Bob Kaufman, another find from the beat generation. Three poems, one after the other.
Jazz radio on a midnight kick,
Round about Midnight.
Sitting on the bed,
With a jazz type chick
Round about Midnight,
Piano laughter, in my ears,
Round about Midnight.
Stirring up laughter, dying tears,
Round about Midnight.
Soft blue voices, muted grins,
Excited [...]
Ijaazat – video enabled
Finally, Talkies is video enabled. And couldn’t think of a better video to start with.
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Fever\Temperature
“Why isn’t our poetry black
like the the exploding eyeballs
Why doesn’t our poetry sing victorious-
songs from the depths of the forest-
like the irrepressible Niagara
Why doesn’t our poetry gush
with a red swollen face-
like the Amazon in the season of rain”
Attempted translation from Malayalam of Satchidanandan’s “Pani”
On a feverish evening,
Sitting beside my little daughter’s fever sick bed
We talked [...]
Thus spake..