unpolished stuff from the poetry workshop.

1. radhika's earring

(this is the pick-an-object-from-and-compose exercise)

a tiny elephant, dangling;

separated by a head from its twin.

features on one side; the other

is the dark side of a wooden moon.

2. this doesn't really have a title, but remember the Tibetan festival in college and it's flag?

(and this is the go-outdoors-adventure/poetry-is-out-there exercise)


i spy six blue bands and
six red bands coming out from
a central sun. it's a flag
fluttering, still; at the wind's whim.

i spy momo-steam rising from
behind. there's inscription
on the flag. it could say freedom.
the vapours have it. some people don't.