English Poems
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
Destruction | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Destruction Destruction Destruction anytime, anywhere, to anyone. Air, water, fire, earth any one of them can do it. Why? the question may arise in a thinking mind though there’s no use in asking not even oneself Who will death reach, who will be a living … Read more
Parole | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Parole Parole As I bring up a glass of water towards my lips getting ready to take sip the magnified proximity dissolves the glass and displays a swirling lake and I imagine the water surging through opened sluice gates Into the thirsty landscape Of my … Read more
Unfrozen | A Poem on Headphones, Silence, and Disconnection Home › Poems › Unfrozen Unfrozen Every vehicle had stopped no one honked people on the streets stopped frozen in their walk their legs hanging midways in their steps everything turned motionless and still as the music had stopped forcing them to freeze And then those … Read more
Home › Poems › Decay Decay by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Life struggles to barely survive in bright light the illumination it brings cannot hide life’s own convoluted designs Life thrives behind smoke screens of burning dead leaves Multiplies in dense fogs and impenetrable mists And richest are the muddy waters for they breed incessantly And yet … Read more
Punctured | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Punctured Punctured Everything and everyone has grown spikes sharp pointy spikes multiple long spikes front and back, above and below every corner and every surface And I move to ease the stiffness fear enforced to avoid being stabbed and poked since hours and days, … Read more
Metrosexual Man – A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Metrosexual Definition: The metrosexual man, according to newer definitions, refers to one navigating new expectations of domestic partnership and emotional nuances for which he is woefully underprepared, and gets trapped between evolving definitions of gender roles and masculinity. Metrosexual Man He went on doing what he did … Read more