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Poems by karabi, by newest first

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  • Come In
    Come in,
    I am in.
    by karabi 1 lines, 7 comments, on May 19 6:44 AM. In Personal
  • Front & Rear Views
    Viewed from front you are ravishing
    From rear?
    by karabi 2 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 28 1:51 AM. In Humor
  • Freedom
    They are busy pulling down their own home
    On their own head
    by karabi 18 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 12 8:03 AM 2008. In Angst
  • My Obituary
    What if I flatter myself a little
    Instead of leaving it to friends
    by karabi 43 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 24 2:01 PM 2008. In Humor
  • the Last Offering
    I couldn't give you pleasure; at the end of the night let me give you complete freedom - it is my life, its glorious end.
    by karabi 0 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 14 7:58 AM 2008
  • Loneliness
    Loneliness is When full
    by karabi 2 lines, 12 comments, on Feb 19 1:59 AM 2008
  • Only one line!
    Once they laughed in joy and cried in pain but now reduced to a mere portrait!
    by karabi 0 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 18 8:47 AM 2008
  • His Kind of Paradise
    What pleasure do you get Prostrating yourself full length
    by karabi 42 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 3 2:17 AM 2008. In Abuse, Humor
  • Happy Christmas!
    Waiting through eternity Expecting you to say
    by karabi 6 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 15 11:26 PM 2007. In Love
  • the Last Trip
    THE LAST TRIP (For Gouri)
    by karabi 76 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 4 10:36 PM 2007
  • to My Daughter
    May you be as my mother In her traditional dress
    by karabi 33 lines, 34 comments, on Nov 27 9:17 PM 2007. In Love, Hope
  • Requiem for a Friend
    Yesterday both of us were alive
    Today I am living but you are dead.
    by karabi 59 lines, 21 comments, on Nov 13 6:59 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad
  • to a Colleague
    What would you have me do dear friend? Wear rings and things and buttons and bows
    by karabi 44 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 8 7:38 AM 2007. In Personal
  • An Epitaph for Appu
    Here lies one Whom we killed first
    by karabi 59 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 7 10:52 PM 2007. In Society
  • My Disease
    by karabi 136 lines, 62 comments, on Aug 3 9:51 PM 2007. In Adult, Humor, Love
  • My Love
    It was spring / With flowers / My boughs were bending / I was heavy with honey / Around me / The bees were flying / Humming / Unending flattering songs / My honey was heady / Sucking to their fi
    by karabi 61 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 28 10:27 AM 2007. In Love
  • Calcutta Forever
    She is not quite dead nor dying / This multitudinous lady / She is living / And forever will she live. / Her house is no more a home / Where life may thrive / It is falling apart / Brick by brick
    by karabi 59 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 25 6:52 PM 2007. In Love
  • the Boss
    He is the greatest / He is the ultimate / Of all things / And of all beings. / In him I move / And have my being. / He rarely smiles, / But if ever he smiles / I liquefy; / I petrify / If stony a
    by karabi 70 lines, 18 comments, on May 31 10:18 AM 2007. In Humor
  • the Century’S Child
    My nativity my parents repent / For it interferes with their fecund fun. / In liquescent lust / The dissipated dissolutes / Pair up afresh / For passing pleasures. / No bond endures / Save their lewd l
    by karabi 51 lines, 22 comments, on May 27 6:49 PM 2007. In Childrens, Contemporary
  • Love
    In the iridescence of youth / I talked irresponsibly / Without even a thought / That one day I shall grow old / And see things in a colder light / It was a time / Not of fruition yet but of flowering
    by karabi 34 lines, 13 comments, on May 26 11:19 PM 2007. In LOVE
  • Our Nirvana
    Keep them in mothballs / In your moth-infested ancient wardrobe / Your winter dresses in summer / And those out-of-date ideas of an idiot. / Who said we are hollow men? / Our insides are crammed with many
    by karabi 98 lines, 5 comments, on May 26 11:00 AM 2007
  • the Idiot
    Now that he is gone / Let us say only this of him – / He was a jolly good fellow / But a simpleton. / A yokel not altogether ugly / Nor handsome nor frolicsome / Yet a source of great fun. / Neither hu
    by karabi 83 lines, 10 comments, on May 25 11:49 AM 2007. In SELF-PORTRAIT
  • Jibanananda*
    The dying sun of autumn / Is neither dim nor despondent / Everything is fine. / The harvested fields bedewed / No beast grazes for grasses green / Their eyes keen by an acquisitive urge / Packs of raveno
    by karabi 36 lines, 1 comment, on May 25 7:59 AM 2007
  • True Grit
    Don’t raise your voice / Lest it be heard by others / And cause you inconvenience. / If something happens / In your presence / Don’t be a witness. / Asked to depose, say, / “O.K. I was there that day
    by karabi 23 lines, 6 comments, on May 19 2:31 AM 2007. In Humor
  • the Editor
    She is a psychologist / But edits poetry / Because / She knows / Readers’ minds more / Than Shakespeare and Tagore. / To modernize / She changes Shakespeare’s blank verse / Because / It is no lo
    by karabi 47 lines, 4 comments, on May 18 10:42 PM 2007. In Humor
  • the Postlude
    What are you going to do, dear friend, / The rest of your life? / Your beloved wife / Seated by your side / Darns with devotion / And skips a stitch or two often in her design / Never forgetting to peck
    by karabi 40 lines, 23 comments, on May 18 11:17 AM 2007. In Life
  • the School for Scandal
    Oh dear, what can the matter be? / Of all people he / Who loved her dearly / And braved the wrath of his parents / Depended solely on his friends / To get married / But now in a manner so hurried
    by karabi 42 lines, 8 comments, on May 18 10:09 AM 2007. In Humor
  • Mr. Prawn
    Fishes are many in the water / But none is funnier than this fellow / His beard is long / His moustache is strong / His dress is still stronger / Than the dress of a mailed knight / He has a sword on his fore
    by karabi 11 lines, 8 comments, on May 16 12:34 PM 2007
  • the Triangle
    / / Should such a thought ever cross your mind / A politic distance I kept from you / Now you drift apart / But once it was he who filled your life / You must know after all these years / What has changed your
    by karabi 20 lines, 36 comments, on May 11 3:04 AM 2007. In Love
  • Tears, Idle Tears
    / / When you came to us twelve years ago / You were a ball of wool / A toddler barely one month old / A breast sucking babe / And always full of play. / You took some time to shed / Some of your naughtiness
    by karabi 71 lines, 10 comments, on May 10 6:06 PM 2007. In Love
  • Belle De Jour
    (For Louis Bunuel)
    So bland and flat to taste
    by karabi 81 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 10 8:55 AM 2007. In Love
  • An epitaph for x
    by karabi 64 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 13 10:27 PM 2006. In Society
  • The weekend
    by karabi 66 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 3 1:50 AM 2006. In Contemporary
  • Hey good life

    What a death to die
    by karabi 51 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 6 2:54 AM 2006. In Dark
  • The editor
    THE EDITOR
    She is a psychologist
    by karabi 46 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 28 2:49 AM 2006. In Humor
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