SHOES

Your new shoes
Invent a new dance
For your feet

Your liquid feet
Outgrow the spurs of pain
After befriending it

Smiling back to it

Life tapdances
On moonlit surfaces of our being

© nidheeshtyagi 2007

SHOES JOURNEY

Shoes have their own journey
Feet their own
Journey has its own shoes
Your writhing heels will know

After stiletto dance sequel

Shoes in their renovated rack
Will talk of thier own pain
Like your feet do to my palms

And the journey ahead

© nidheeshtyagi 2007

SAARANGI SOUL

Soul is a Saarangi
A Taan of living
Takes you to a lake
To the hill some times in steps
Some in strides

It has the keys and passowrds
To all the mystical warehouse of pain
Where it gets tears and punctuations to denser
Silence between you and me

Soul is a Saarangi

Releasing a hermit moment from a lost cave

Drawing a journey of a dusty track
On soles of your feet

Soul is a Saarangi

© nidheeshtyagi 2007

NIGHT ON BHOPAL LAKE

There is no music
Not even in distance
There are lights at the other end of lake

A night melts into nothingness
In a still life Bhopal

Punctuated by straying thoughts
Grazing through the memories

Of a moment spent
Of a life lived

In a city of dead people walking
You reclaim me from a Mohan Jo Daro existence
By our passwords of love

© nidheeshtyagi 2007

LINGUA

I speak to you in Latin
Read you in Braille

Alien ecstasies
Entwine us
Into an oxygenated shloka of life

I take your name
Plant 353 kisses
1294 flowers bloom
You seal my words

You become the kaafia
Of this lost radeef

© nidheeshtyagi 2007