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Father and Son | Reflections on Memory, Grief and Love | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Essays › Father and Son Father and Son It is a privilege to have parents. We know it but comprehend it in its entirety, a bit too late. Of all the relationships, a father and son relationship is never smooth and easy. Maybe for a few lucky ones, it is. But for most it is linear till adolescence and then it…

Pen | Writer’s Block Poem on Creative Silence | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Pen Pen A poem on writer’s block and creative silence I pick up my pen To write something The nib refusing to create words Stays stuck A tiny ink blot appears Watching my emotions Bereft of a single word Bleed into the spreading blot My last bit of hope Deserts me And the pen’s corpse Drops down On the dying…

अमावस्या कविता | मराठी कविता | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar मुख्य पृष्ठ › मराठी कविता › अमावस्या अमावस्या दिसायची चंद्रकोर तरी नित्यनेमाने पौर्णिमेचे रूप पाहून अडकायचा श्वास छातीतल्या छातीत बिघडायचा ठेका हडबडलेल्या हृदयाचा तोल सावरतां सावरतां गडबडायचे पाय आणि पापण्या विस्फारून एकटक पहायचो साठवायला डोळ्यात तुझ्या गालावरच्या खळीमधून उसळणारे डोळ्यातून सांडणारे मोहिनी घालणारे स्मितहास्य कानात रूंजी…

Passing By | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Passing By Passing By By Shashikant Dudhgaonkar The summer street Stirs at dusk With pedestrians Young rambunctious crowd Talking whispering and laughing loud Some walking solo Glued to shiny screens A few zen monks Walked with measured steps Their AirPods drilling death metal Into their skulls A few old ladies in groups Perched on low…

Sunset | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Sunset Sunset Sun pierced my eyes As I took a left Pulled the visor down Half blinded The fiery orange ball Is inevitably swallowed Jaws of horizon close around it For a tepid death It will rise again So have many influential men Prophets leaders and charlatans Harbingers of blight or bountiful harvest And here I ponder A magical…

Collective Denial | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Collective Denial Collective Denial They have always won Never ever lost Anything And convey that to the world Loudly, subtly, indirectly In person, at gatherings And on social media With a belief strong In their own deceit Deep inside their souls Tired, stretched thin Nursing multiple scars Disappointments, heartbreaks and…

Bloom | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Bloom Bloom Orange, yellow, red and grey flowers bloom in the towns one here, few more there many more they say downtown blossoms unheralded have arrived Birds dive from the clouds bees buzz and dart, night sky filled with falling stars spring has rushed in rapid strides to the gardens of war © Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Other Essays &…

अस्वस्थ | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home » Poems » अस्वस्थ अस्वस्थ आसपास आपल्या सारे आलबेल असते सकाळ दुपार सायंकाळ रात्र नेहमीप्रमाणे येते आणि जातेही घडत राहते बऱ्यापैकी सारे मनासारखे मात्र कोठेतरी दूर क्षितीजा पलिकडे ध्वस्त इमारती पेटलेल्या आगी आणि एकाच वेळी अकाली मारले गेलेल्या आत्म्यांचा धुमसत असतो धूर कोण चांगले कोण वाईट अनेक तज्ञ जोरजोरात खेकसत डागतात त्यांचे विश्लेषण बहिऱ्या झालेल्या…

Fabrications | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Fabrications Fabrications When everything around you Seems satisfying and serene You might be dreaming with open eyes Reality cruising alongside Invisibly If it’s pitch dark And terrifying You might have rightly Closed your eyes If it’s agonisingly harsh You might be an empath Suffering your boons And if it is unbearably…

What Is | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home » Poems » What Is What Is Night speaks the language of silence And in its pregnant stillness Thoughts distilled to the purest Come to the fore The days suffocating rancour Loses its bite Emotions discarding their turbulence Start turning quiet Nothing is flat though Rather an undulating swell Dances around Hypnotically I realise, pleasantly…

Numbness Appearances Bird Song | A Poetic Continuum Home > Poetry > Numbness Appearances Bird Song Numbness Appearances Bird Song Numbness It’s hard to miss the paradox When one sees beyond People strolling in the malls Markets and on streets Hustle and plow In offices farms and factories Gulping down trash packaged as art Like connoisseurs with nuance Take vacations to check off Items from…

Forbidden Space | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Forbidden Space Forbidden Space With headscarves hiding balding heads their bodies sweaty and faces bloated they scanned the stage lifting cables, replacing them tuning, listening, retuning trying to hear, above the hum of the impatient audience Strobe lights flashed, colours came alive on the stage felt more ghastly than…