A haiku

a quiet evening
the clock hand moves and moves on
click clickety click

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Anant Dhavale

In progress

Dear reader - I appreciate you stopping by this blog. I haven't really been able to write much poetry lately because I've been working on a novella. In the interim, I also tried out some of my Urdu and Marathi poetry. I have a few poems brewing in the background though, want to post them here as soon as I am able to get them in a coherent form !

Three Couplets

 

 

Three She'rs from an Urdu Ghazal  

یوں ساون میرے گھر آیا 

کمروں میں پانی بھر آیا 

بیٹھا تھا بڑوں کی مجلس میں 

سو اونچیں  باتیں کر آیا 

پھر ہمنے وہی نادانی کی 

پھر پیش وہی منظر آیا

اننت ڈ'ھولے 

Anant Dhavale

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A moment of clarity

 You do not need a mentor or a book to tell you the meaning or purpose of life. Look around you; there are enough answers. It is a roundabout way of saying most answers lie within ourselves if we look hard. Some people call it introspection, others meditation. I call it thinking. There is always a moment of clarity lurking around. It can find you under a tree, in a flowing brook, or under the plain blue sky.

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Anant Dhavale

( this is not a poem !)

11 PM

The music is awful and the whole scene is drab,

perhaps I could have intervened

and forced myself out

A solitary walk is still a possibility

but the question of

willingness remains

This night is opaque enough

to engulf things

living and not

(cavorts of solitude included)

The first twist of the hour

a lament blurred enough to be

ignored, but the human condition

remains

an abyss lingering beneath

Sombre are these moments

of unperturbed-ness

and beyond.

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Anant Dhavale

Copyright © Anant Dhavale

Pictures

 This city is a proverbial

melting pot, your

roots do not matter much here 

nor do the modes of payment 

mostly digital 

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I negotiate for a complimentary 

Roasted papad

The maître d' agrees it’s a fair deal

The world moves on 

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A girl maneuvers her way

through stares and

glances

some benign 

others not so 

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It’s cozy here in this 

plush hotel room 

a curtain you’ve pulled over 

your eyes 

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Two worlds blossom 

on every street 

nook and cranny

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Anant Dhavale

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