English Poems
Collective Denial | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Collective Denial Collective Denial They have always won Never ever lost Anything And convey that to the world Loudly, subtly, indirectly In person, at gatherings And on social media With a belief strong In their own deceit Deep inside their souls Tired, stretched thin … Read more
Bloom | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Bloom Bloom Orange, yellow, red and grey flowers bloom in the towns one here, few more there many more they say downtown blossoms unheralded have arrived Birds dive from the clouds bees buzz and dart, night sky filled with falling stars spring has rushed in … Read more
Fabrications | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Fabrications Fabrications When everything around you Seems satisfying and serene You might be dreaming with open eyes Reality cruising alongside Invisibly If it’s pitch dark And terrifying You might have rightly Closed your eyes If it’s agonisingly harsh You might be an empath Suffering … Read more
What Is | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home » Poems » What Is What Is Night speaks the language of silence And in its pregnant stillness Thoughts distilled to the purest Come to the fore The days suffocating rancour Loses its bite Emotions discarding their turbulence Start turning quiet Nothing is flat though Rather … Read more
Numbness Appearances Bird Song | A Poetic Continuum Home > Poetry > Numbness Appearances Bird Song Numbness Appearances Bird Song Numbness It’s hard to miss the paradox When one sees beyond People strolling in the malls Markets and on streets Hustle and plow In offices farms and factories Gulping down trash packaged as art Like … Read more
Forbidden Space | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Forbidden Space Forbidden Space With headscarves hiding balding heads their bodies sweaty and faces bloated they scanned the stage lifting cables, replacing them tuning, listening, retuning trying to hear, above the hum of the impatient audience Strobe lights flashed, colours came alive on the … Read more
When the Waves Fall Silent | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar When the Waves Fall Silent Delicately dancing on the rising waves they ride walls meters high They entertain, they thrill receive applause thundering and place lives in peril for an addictive adrenaline high At their best when wind and the waves and everything else favours … Read more
Home › Poems › Illumination Illumination | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Illumination A lot happens in the world yet most don’t absorb It’s not that people don’t need to understand rather people don’t want to they have immediate things to attend to And there are many who live without awareness, of the situational kind neither … Read more
The Baseline | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home / Poems / The Baseline The Baseline Ones victories and failures interrupt uniformity constantly One loves stability though victories more getting high even more The peaks pass one returns to uniformity memories linger though life pulls one back into its mundane stability One could deny failures vehemently … Read more