pegasus The Last Time I Saw You | Poems

Illustration Photo: AnupriyaIllustration Photo: Anupriya

When

Begum Akhtar sang her last songLata hummed her last tuneShahid wrote his last lineShakir inked her last noon

What signs had fallen on thosedays, what omens lay unseen,the world was ending in a million ways from all that could have been

Types of Falling

"This series is not just about the two teams playing; it's about reviving the spirit of hockey in Delhi. We hope this will inspire more young players from the region to take up the game," Harmanpreet stated in a press release issued by Hockey India.

A coin drops into the pocket.A leaf slows to the ground.An eagle nosedives to its prey.The passer-by trips on the curb.An egg is dislodged from the nest.The graph dips for a day.The night sinks behind the window.Silence descends like a Mary Oliver poem.Your hand slips down the waist.I move towards you and call it falling.

Write a Poem Without Time

The problem begins in the title,the damn verb (‘write’) ushers in action,action ushers in time.

Try again.(Meanwhile, verbs keep sneaking in.)

Perhaps only nouns, suspendedoutside all hours, like: a black drongo,an underlit swimming pool,a jacaranda tree.

A refusal of time is a refusalof memory. Like: a startling place,like: that night. A button moonstitched to the sky like a plea.

Here the black drongo will notdive from the elbowed branchof the small jacarandainto the wavering lightof the pool.

It will not wet its feathersin the brilliant school of water.

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It will not referenceany past, will not holdonto reluctant debris.

It will be weightless.

It will not scriptyour impossible returnin the sudden refractionof this night of after.

Excerpted with permission from HarperCollins India pegasus