Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 2/9/2013 5:11:18 PM

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hearts and stones

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 2/3/2013 6:13:47 PM

'You're all heart and i'm all stone, say the sharp crystals floating down at this midnight hourhearts, love and things of the dense varietyfall, give in, are slaves to gravity.You- a stone over… Read More →'

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Once in a while

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 1/15/2013 5:21:37 PM

'“Fight your heart once in a while” you say, you, who makes a living out of doing just that constantly, everyday, heartlessly you, who lives with the constant need to listen to the… Read More →'

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100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 1/14/2013 11:57:26 PM

'I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in… Read More →'

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Windblown

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 1/11/2013 4:47:08 AM

'Its one of those nights, when the night leaves you alone amidst strangers, friends, lovers and elves, the fireplace is teeming with ashes of unvisited islands and unlived mornings and despite the heat… Read More →'

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The winter of our discontent

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 11/28/2012 7:09:52 AM

'Many a Shakespeare and Steinbeck have penned these lines. For what describes this chill in our bones, the constant drizzle, the monologues of absence, the cacophony of eight stomping feet. For what will… Read More →'

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In the wake of a hurricane

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 10/31/2012 4:13:49 AM

'Again, the storms recede only to make tunnels of silence, to find debris, and other swinging tchotchke of greener seasons and the cadavers float up onto the surface foaming, frothing … And yet the heart… Read More →'

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While you passed me by

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 10/29/2012 11:20:59 PM

'In the flurry of sifting through my life with you there are bags of sugar and salt that I left unopened bags of sweet promises and savory friendships. … As I look back… Read More →'

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What could be

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 9/24/2012 3:57:00 AM

'Its how you always run into moments of time people and rain-sprinkled trees lining a certain tarred road and for sometime you assume their shapes.   Sitting under a hard edged lamp many… Read More →'

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Singing elephants

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 8/11/2012 9:17:47 PM

'What is it about the present moment that is never sipped with relish And that only when it is on the brink of falling back into the pathos of time is it really… Read More →'

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The lonely ones

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 8/5/2012 12:07:05 AM

'The truth is, we always find a way to look beyond hurt even if the details are blurred and bokeh-ed   The truth is no one waits for you and you don’t wait… Read More →'

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Separation

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 7/30/2012 12:48:13 AM

'Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. -- W S Merwin'

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Footsteps

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 7/10/2012 6:01:50 AM

'And you wait for the footsteps in your tiny hopeful heart they are always drawing closer getting louder   And you stand by the door, then at the balconey looking down at howling… Read More →'

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अपनी जुबां

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 7/8/2012 2:28:36 AM

'आज-कल अपनी जुबां के लफ्ज़ कहने को मन करता है, तो मैं इन हवाओं से बात करती हूँ, ये तो एक ही हैं, यहाँ भी, वहाँ भी, सोचती हूँ कभी तो उड़ते हुए मेरी आवाज़ पोहोंचेगी, वहाँ, जहाँ इसे समझने वाले हर सड़क और हर मोड़ पर खड़े हैं,  शायद उन्हें ये लगे की ये आवाज़, यहीं कहीं है,  इसी मिटटी में रहती है, कहीं आसपास ही गुनगुनाती है | फिर सोचती हूँ कैसे रहते हैं लोग अपने आप से दूर, इन अनजान मुल्कों में, … Read More →'

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Another world

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 6/21/2012 4:08:40 AM

'In a parallel universe, where I’d sit next to you reading Steinbeck you’d blink your eyes open and shy away from the sun,   Its relentless the Indian sun, you’d take my book… Read More →'

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The bougainvillea, the sunset and I

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 6/10/2012 11:58:43 PM

'For a minute we sit, the bougainvillea, the sunset and I in a minute the sun starts to dance, revealing the real colors of everything around when its done, tired but happy it pauses… Read More →'

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Nothing really changes- on leaving

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 6/3/2012 9:01:31 AM

'The sun peeking out from avenues of the city, Many tiny dreams hang like lanterns on windows facing each other A scramble of feet, of nannies, dogs, the elite and the homeless. Sometimes I feel nothing really changes, no matter how many roofs you have on your head And how many cities you switch The … Continue reading →'

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Rain in a different country

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 5/15/2012 4:19:52 PM

'The droplets of water hanging from the railing reflect an upside down world, The tree just outside my window, waving from a different country Inside, the smells of my country persist The friends persist, so do my dreams; Of looking out and finding the colors, the mud, the songs of familiarity Of a rain which … Continue reading →'

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The Winter Sun

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 3/7/2012 8:58:51 PM

'Somehow in the spaces of time when you feel utterly lost, because of an unwarranted pause, a break you thought you needed, but you don’t know what to do with it when it finally arrives, in your letterbox, post marked for today.   You will sit and listen more carefully to the sounds of people … Continue reading →'

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13 Ways of Looking at Insomnia

Author : sanarao      Blog : ...      Date : 2/21/2012 6:23:09 AM

'I Deep love for big dipper eyes open, not missing a speck, a grain, a drop of light II Mind, a minute a mile familiar blur of subway tiles III Broken bones and restless sighs an accident, a mistake, in the lost time IV A later brunch, a leisurely Sunday long stretches of time V … Continue reading →'

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