Misunderstandings

are like chillies.
seen in isolation
it makes you cry.
but
they add the zing
when mixed to a meal.
same way
lovers tiff
stood alone
is poison to relationship,
but
as a part
of
love's pot pourrie,
it cannot but add the
zing
and
bring zest to life.

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The Evening Sets In

to occupy spaces
left behind on the sea beach
by the feet dragging
children of home-work minded
parents,

the evening comes
fluttering with the sea candle
to the sea beach
comfortably carried over the head
by
the paani-puri wallah,

the evening,
comes too to the sea shore,
as the invisible chaperon,
with young lovers
walking in hand-in-hand,
to a place behind a small rock,

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7/11 Mumbai

in the deep recess
far away from the light
lives a neanderthral.

a giant in size,
mind firmly lent
to the nether of ideas
and morals,
the neanderthral
was
but human in shape.

the neanderthral
got envious of a tiny
tree,
'lop it i must',
he said to himself.
tree and i cannot
stay together.

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