Best Ordinariness Poems

They sit together
Watching the box,
Sharing the view
Side by side.
Not talking,
Yet comfortable
Engrossed in scenes
Before them.
Wrapped up 
In their moment
Of togetherness.


Eyes centred
Lost in the illusion
Played out before...

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I wanted to be different, that much I wanted! And there I am, the very same, plain, normal non-magic. I am ashamed. Stupid shameful and...

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Sedge grass, unwanted there, 


it terrorized my uncle's garden, 


blemishing the neatly ordered rows 


of cauliflower and cabbage, 


tomatoes, beans and beets. 





He would till...

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As you grow, happy moments shrink,
At some day, skin aches when you smile,
These are just ordinary lines, or
Maybe just exaggerated tales,
‘D thought so but no...

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Sedge grass, unwanted there, 
it terrorized my uncle's garden, 
blemishing the neatly ordered rows 
of cauliflower and cabbage, 
tomatoes, beans and beets. 

He would till...

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I never cared to do the dangerous things, and liked to play it safe,
But the strict bonds of ordinariness, can oftentimes start to chafe.

I always...

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Sedge grass, unwanted there,
it terrorized my uncle's garden,
blemishing the neatly ordered rows
of cauliflower and cabbage, 
tomatoes, beans and beets.
He would till from dawn to dusk,
his...

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In searching for her he’s found a philosophy
to balance his soul in the presence of Sophy.
The scales of existence measures his sufferings,
from his shoulders, she’s...

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I
Bread has an everyday demanding presence, not daily dough
But daily fare across the miles, across ancient ways and wonders
Built by bread in bellies of slaves...

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It was not the ordinariness.
The pain of rejection. One
night  my lips touched
the lips of moon, to soak the
grief. Do not want to cross-
the threshold...

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when you see tragedy
man wedding another man
do not laugh or get angry
when you hear comedy
girl wedding another girl
do not laugh or get angry
May be its...

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The iconography of childhood gives more vivid memories,
like an inward looking that draws to depth and human connections;
those relationships with family members, friends, and relations
the...

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This is my garden.

I recently discovered
the quiet allure 
of the forgotten art of gardening.

More than shoving seeds into soil,
More than impatiently waiting for seedlings and...

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A recent visit to an eclectic museum trying to achieve many things in a small space. Unintentionally presented in the style of a lucid dream....

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did the Greek philosopher Socrates
ever have thoughts of his own mediocrity,
did Buddha in meditation contemplate
belly-button lint in his belly button sedate?

maybe some Confucian spiritual medium
pondered...

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