Two poems.

Moon Between

Photo Courtesy : Sohini Basak

Far away from you

it feels good

to know

that tonight

we face

the same side of the moon.

Far from me

you say that

you

cannot see

this moon

I see

you lie.

Too many cities divide us.

Too many missed calls,

red skies, traffic signals

and solitary windows

lie in between.

That’s why you cannot see

the moon.

You say you cannot

see it because its

too close.

Like words on

a page held

too close

to your face.

-Sohini Basak

She with the Jalebi lights

Photo Courtesy : Sohini Basak

And the evening sky,
It's indigo blue,
With a fading pearl white
And its gentle girdle of light
Reminds me of you
And I think of calling
To tell you to take a picture...

A night so simple...
...it knows
We will come to ache for it
In the years to come.

-Urvashi Bahuguna