The Koththu Divide

Beneath scraps of gothamba roti A blend of roast chicken, vegies and chilies And the scrambled morsels of an egg Lies a true mosaic story Of two worlds that do not meet Yet flourish in diurnal cycles Of appearances and disappearances ..................... Dusk at an eatery at Maligawatte Dozens stream in for the music of …

A Spinster’s Swan Song

What rests spurned by the lapse of time A body bearing etched lines of wear and tear Even gravity's unflattering weight Films of rust gripping the unloved soul Flaming lust tormenting the unploughed soil A mythical dream that perished to age's trickle Never to wear a gossamer veil over her tresses A necklace around her collar …

Bridge

A bedside accident The legacy of a broken condom What was sculpted by a bottle of wine And besieging lust A divan that laid bare and open To what two bodies could muster When the thrush of destiny laid claim To the miracle of life ................... What was absented of sense But saturated with sentience …

Sambol Paan Toast (Bread Toast With Ground Sambol)

I was born again to my heritage Evangelized by the taste of 'paan' Two slices of bread pasted with sambol Pan-toasted and delivered to my armchair The crispiness of toast, the spiciness of ground chilies And the tangy flavor of lemon Colonized my buds and I was afloat In the tantalizing taste of a Sri …

Morning Has Broken

I woke up, one arm around your hourglass hips One foot clasped around your knees One sheet loosely covering your wilderness I was a story of meditation - of that thought process kindled by love What is brought about by the groping heart And is painted in mental pictures Your canvas illuminated by your inflorescence …

Forgiveness

The disease of mortality That plagues each replica of incarnated clay Cannot be immunized by vaccination For man is imbued with desires Mortal entrapment within cages of sin Yet man possesses one antidote  To erase the chronicles littering his chosen crossroad A pill of redemption and salvation To be vacated of fermenting guilt In a …

A Spontaneous Kiss

What I found......... In the mindlessness of a nonsensical kiss In the flow and ebb of vermilion In the thrush and recoil of touch Was the beauty of a reflex Free of mental strings And imbued with hedonic taste Where longing crashed against percussion And bliss was the only residue

Nostalgia Unearthed………….

The undercurrent of longing To an eclipsed milestone A steady stream of involuntary meditation To a time-carved moment That faded in time But was not forgotten in the catacombs of memory A place of beatitude, of endearment Where grains of deed were cryopreserved To be awakened in the retreat of time For man is a …

Infinite Gray

Between the hat and the shoe Lies a melting pot of universality and inimitability The rareness of identity and a replica of mortality Both states of inconvenience  Where the mismatch of gene-imprinted color Erects walls of convenience And the ubiquity of the human form Sculpts casts of conformism And in that bipedal journey shouldering the …