haze over the hills
the rain has filled
this morning's footprints

2011-10-1

moon-paved road
I take the lane
without the dogs

2011-11-1

cloudy
the metal-edged whistle
of a dove's flight

2011-11-2

cold night
a cricket's
insistent mantra

2011-11-2

rabbit in the moon
each dog has the last bark
till the next

2011-11-2

getting the phone - 
the soft tapping
of the rocking chair

2011-11-2

lakeside
the long silence
before the loon's reply

2011-11-2

bulbul blues
a yellow flower floats
in my tea cup

2011-11-2

high-stepping,
an egret walks its shadow
across a white wall

2011-12-1

the rising moon pales
down here the cricket's
unwavering song

2011-12-1

rusty fence - 
a sunbird
in one of the diamonds

2011-12-2

evening voices
the moon
so huge

2012-02-1

Internet break - 

the wind
in the trees

2012-02-1

day of remembrance -
the night silence
same as always

It is 10 years today since the Gujarat pogrom in which some 2000 Muslims were killed and 150,000 displaced to live as refugees in their own country. Many of them could never return to their homes.

2012-02-2

roadside cricket song - 
the full moon's risen
above the wires

2012-03-1

unanswered
the dog's howl fades
into the night

2012-03-2

noon heat - 
a pigeon shadow shimmers
across the tar

2012-03-2

midday heat - 
the insistent call
of a dove

2012-03-2

silver moon
a loudspeaker barks
at the night

2012-05-1

darkening trees -
a flight of parakeets
brightly lit

2012-05-2