Long Bandaging Poems

Perhaps from my childhood, it had been my burning desire,
To glance Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) - a home I did admire;
At the thought of Kolkotta - Mother's house - my heart did churn,
To be with...

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while atop the surface of planet Earth humanity
     all abustle skittering
     to and fro, hither and yon
engaged in self important activity yielding profits,

    ...

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Tattle cries are just as loud as battle cries, 
but the difference is 
tears from mannequins dry on untouchable skin. 
You may have a purpose, but your attempt at a movement 
is motionless because your...

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The man stumbled on, wanting to get as far away as possible
the sights he had seen and lived through too terrible to contemplate.
How could another human deliberately inflict such awful things on another.
He could see...

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I walked this life alone
So much I have grown
Trying hard to be true
In all the things I do
Love passes by
No need to cry
Why bother to try
I spent some time in the past
Wishing I could make...

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Who told you ?
Who told you that I would still 
be here waiting ...
Bandaging and patching, 
cooking and cleaning, hoping 
and expecting,
Anticipating your love towards 
me, but when the rains came, I 
looked for you,
To...

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Kalinga- linga

A daughter of revolution fed on rich political nutrition 
With a smile bandaging scars of the streets and falsehood by political demons 
Fingers burnt in pseudo democratic pans of West, what a political humor...

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Love shall say it's sorry so truth may atone
My soul brings praise to no other, you alone
Like the stars tell stories of your eyes alone
Like the tides weave history in every moan
I have languished in...

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I want to be a child again.
 I want to skip down the glen, singing
 Here We Go Gathering Nuts In May.
 Holding Daddy's hand in mine.

I want to know I'm loved.
 That someone is...

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He unwittingly hovers
       ...blankets of subjective weather
Plastering his artic tundra
Bandaging white clouds together
Blindly...
     ...withholding ill trepedation
Refocused on our tantalization

Frosting earth's core
    ...

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The hospital smelt of disinfectants strong bleach many potions, polish and ether,
Cleanliness so important always clean and polished, in the waiting room, leather,
A policeman down a corridor in a terrible hurry held his helmet by...

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The lake shaped rain puddle, hue of a wet cave wall 
that drips limestone, distorts the captive sunlight. 
The Sun becomes a gold-tiatian rose that floats. 

The ripples are spiders crawling.
Daddy-Long-Legs. Like the ones crossing...

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I live my life vicariously, 
Through everyone else’s eyes.
I live my life through every low 
And every one of the highs.

It began when I was a child, 
I’d live like batman every day.
Pretending I was...

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Living in a world that hurts and is hurting is taking its toll,
I want to leave this earth so I can finally discover peace,
To let go of its hold on me and the claws I...

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It started at 25 , has crossed 75 and will continue forever. 

He came closer to me 
Shivers ran down my spine, 
I looked everywhere else 
Instead of his eyes,
Cuz I know I couldn't handle...

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Nothing soothes me,
Nothing grooves me,
Nothing behooves me.

I’m grasping at branches,
Bandaging the stanches,
But I still don’t understand it.

IT being what’s happened to me,
The source of my abject misery,
Which simply isn’t clear to me.

I wish that it...

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