Friday, August 25, 2006

Monaco Biscuits

You have retained
Your habit of making
Caricatures when you
Do not bother
To listen to
What a speaker
Has to say

The free strands
Of your hair
Look like Vincent’s
Corn-field and
Your worn-out
Canvas shoes
Like his canvas

You wear
A silver ring
On the little finger
Of your right hand
Through which I desire
To pass like a
Pashmina shawl

When you entered
Yesterday into
The array of my vision
You passed your
First glance at me
How I wished
I had a beard

I also heard
You telling your
Friend that you
Were hungry
I could have fed you
My liver instead of
Those Monaco biscuits

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

You got it
Terribly wrong

If you had but
Allowed me

In your field of vision
For a while long

You would have
Heard the correct version

For I had told my friend
I would gladly
Surrender the rest
Of my life
To be fed

Wih nothing but
Your lovely poems

Prashanth said...

Oh.
Hmmmm.
(Sigh).
Ahem.

Superb.
(period)

Anonymous said...

vincent, vincent, vincent,
all ur writing is full of him
god i never thought i would be jealous of a dead man, and u know its not easy he was such a great human being.
anyways u really surprised me by mentioning liver instead of ears.

Rahul Pandita said...

Anonymous,
Liver is more personal. By the way, why are you jealous of Vincent?

Anonymous said...

well that's a tough question as unlike u i find it difficult to write down my feelings. however, i pormise i'll telll u about it if i ever meet u in person.
could u pls tell more about 'Chinar In My Veins' i haven't read it and would like to.
p.s ur claim-to-be-poet, is but claim. as u were indifferent to my poem. no doubt u r vincent's fan.

Anonymous said...

well that's a tough question as unlike u i find it difficult to write down my feelings. however, i pormise i'll telll u about it if i ever meet u in person.
could u pls tell more about 'Chinar In My Veins' i haven't read it and would like to.
p.s ur claim-to-be-poet, is but claim. as u were indifferent to my poem. no doubt u r vincent's fan.

Anonymous said...

well that's a tough question as unlike u i find it difficult to write down my feelings. however, i pormise i'll telll u about it if i ever meet u in person.
could u pls tell more about 'Chinar In My Veins' i haven't read it and would like to.
p.s ur claim-to-be-poet, is but claim. as u were indifferent to my poem. no doubt u r vincent's fan.