CHLADNI FIGURES

Everything is in motion.

The heavens, the mountains,

The atoms.

Everything.

Beating to its own rhythm.

The emptiness, the sadness,

The pain,

Inside you

Beating faster than your heart,

Echoing excruciatingly.

Outside, 

The world appears calm, so serene -

You smile, greet people,

Listen to them,

Display the chladni figures

Of your face,

Pass the beating as sound,

As music,

As art.

INTERVAL

(Translation of the poem "Darmiyani Waqfa" by Nomaan Shauqe)

Life
Begins from a cipher
And vanishes
Into another
In the meantime
We eat popcorn
Enjoy paintings by Fida Hussain
Blow atom bombs
Bed woman
Some our own
Some not
And sleep
To wake into another morning!

THE ALEATORY POINT

(A NON-DELEUZIAN POEM FOR DELEUZE)

The hollowness
Death, dread and void
Pain, agony and ache
Suffering, misery and affliction
The emptiness -
Philosophy is recognizing
The empty square within life's square puzzle
Wisdom rests in reminding onself
That the emptiness remains unfulfilled
That this emptiness actually
Propels every movement within.
Art is the realization
That the square is
One among many shapes