Durlabh Singh

poem by Durlabh Singh

DO NOT WANT TO TURN. I do not want to turn again Where oft I have trodden in some days When the sounds of my footprints imprints Crimson blood stained mouths of memories. Purple trafficking in the hu... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

SEASON OF DOUBT. A season born in decant doubts Amid tales woven around crowded lies Pivoted fingers of the polluted seas Along hills of raven where desert ends Combining pinioned deeds of silver keel Scythe moulded forms... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

CLOUDED CRADLE. In clouded cradle haunted deep I confirm in tainted turbulent sea Bridled tongues moved to please The pallid probes of the verses brief. Along stony erected rendered walls An allurement for a parallel pa... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

CHILDREN PLAY. The children play in the sunshine In a nascent dawn born of baited bliss Three pronged foot webs in the sand Of creatures hungry in the meddler nights. The dreams that hold immensity of night Forms sound- sc... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

CASKETS. Curtains, carpets or the door Pens, books and the floors Pictures or corners of the rooms Trident accumulations of memory Caskets of tear drops in thrown Harkening to intimacies of alone. Into the commencements of ... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

BITTER LEMON. I want to cut my teeth On the rind of a bitter lemon And feel the veins of wintry night Caught in eddies on the frozen lips. To follow the paths of the sea Or to the creatures of sultry nights Places where ... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

GOLDEN TEMPLE Riding high on the limpid waves Rising high on the shimmering presence Blue waters of white marbled chequers For the eternal hymns of wayward heart The golden domes invoking a saffron path. Novices of th... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

EPPING FOREST. Spirit of green engendered in liberty Sweeping across the glanded glades Tangled tree spirits in tarnished brief Dancing shades of sunlit lauded leaves. Some reveries of buttercups in a sea of grass Sporting... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

FEATS OF COURAGE Feats of courage and the heroic death For the cause country or the desert zones Peeping voices low under old stony buildings In wake of the retreating armies of the Rhone. On the hill an impregnable for... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

BALLAD Go saddle me the black black steed For I am going on a long long journey Go wipe away the tears that roll Across brawny cheeks of gypsie lassie. Fifteen well made men going on their steeds To get their brides leap o... Read more

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Turner , Turner burning bright In the long galleries of night What immortal hand or eye An impressionism of solid delight. Pompous full of divine right Embodying huge egos by sight Catching the history with its rugged throat ... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

Wither my soul wither In kitchen linked porcelains In soup bowls in tea cups In spooned coffees in breaking of bread. Wither my soul wither In icy cold buttress of four walled In ticking of clocks in rippling of sheets In mar... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

Having been happy in touching metallic skies Or fingering the moon for its dusty overlay Having been happy in moving orbs and the shores Or spreading the sunshine to the burrowed moles. Watching a lonely planet amid reluctant ... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

When I kissed you In an arid waste of that cheek The tangle of your hair did dissect Indulged in making a tale brief Of some sombre trivial demise Of hope forlorn or of rainy nights And the communication between two hearts Fl... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

DESERTS. Will the deserts now bloom In the tear shaped waters shed by dawn Where long reached shadows will graze The silted veins of some muted storm. Let the moths eat the vermin At the heart of tarnished thorn Let the f... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

DIMENSIONS. To think of you Is not to think of you Tonight. A single point diverges Into dimensions of horizon Subterranean reasons within Causing rippled symptoms. Singular diversions Of narcissus nihilty A muted pr... Read more

story by Durlabh Singh

My nostrils get assailed often by a pungent smell, like that of death and decay and yet I do not know whether it is due to my state of mind, which helps to produce these effects or perhaps this advent of smell is from some outside sou... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

TRAMPLED IMAGES. Where did I loose you? Trampled images of my own Perhaps on highways of concrete Swept by sweeps of logical bones. Anchored in sea of futility Imprisoned by metallic chains Life without vitality suffused i... Read more

lyrics by Durlabh Singh

CERULEAN NIGHTS Cerulean Nights Reveries of constellations An earthly planet lost Among foreign stars Highways of mind Hedging against scars. Broken asteroids On mission of suicide A thirst for mortality Conflagrations... Read more

publication by Durlabh Singh

Kama Sutra of Love ( Short Stories) ISBN: 9781847474117 In The Days of Love (novel) ISBN: 978-1-84747-525-1 Keeper of Reflections ( Short Stories) ISBN: 978-1-84747- 653-1 Spaces Of Heart.( Verse Collection) ISBN: 978-1-847... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

STOP MY HEART. Stop my heart Stay and assess The world around you Seeing in all its duress. You were offspring of nothingness Here and there and nowhere A wish to find somewhere beyond There was no search anywhere. Let ... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

CANNOT REMEMBER. I cannot remember my name As there is no remembrance On my finger tips No remembrance in my bones No remembrance in skelton And my skull speaks Of anguished living fears Compounded by arduous Callousness ... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

TOUCHING AGAIN Having touched that the skies were gold Having touched wanton winds carrying knives Having touched that wandering eyes were sweet And having touched the bitter taste of each smile. Having touched the brindl... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

STANDING STONE. In my image of standing stone I dared to move beyond Chilled time lines Or perhaps my physicality Will evolve Like unto some warm flesh Exposed to the wintry rains Or to vagrant summer nights. I may be a... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

TIME. There is a time for production on earth A time for volcanoes to bring forth Heat and smoke and the soup of life Ready to congeal for the creations A time to be born and a time to die Without leaving footprints In the s... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

You Might Say You might say that It is an absurd love Pinning for, beyond Unforgettable un-obtained. Desires fulfilled without hold Sensing with warmth in brain Fruitful outcome in dimensions Of time and space in common ga... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

KANYA KUMARI. Strips of pale silken scarf On the soft crimson light Spreading from land to sea After the blackness of night Amid sighing moonstone of seeded saturn A crow is crowing to break up the pattern. Kanya Kumari hi... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

RESTORE ME Restore me To myself Divorce me From perpetual death. Bathe me In fresh showers Under the summer sun. Take me To lands That speak of mystery Where the tongues Are given t leaves And songs to birds And... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

MODERN MUSE. When the poet and the artist full of fright From directors of galleries from dealers of might From TV pundits merchants of media & such blight Settling splendidly on their thrones in dizzying heights. The artis... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

ACCESS TO MYSELF Now this instant which pervades Inhabited space within the verse Giving access to some deeper self A blankness on face of the adverse. Plenty of space to expand For agonies and blooms to withstand In pa... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

THE BEE. The bee is drunk with honeyed dew In flowered colours a metallic dance A hitched stagger in shifting winds A flutter of smile in all that morass. Enterprises of hive now gone distant Structures and stimulations... Read more

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STERILE SMILE. Gloomy and remorse A sterile smile Stretched like a snare Along the jagged wire. Did you know the fury of my blood Where deeds are mortgaged in duress In darkness remote shifters of smile Recovering grud... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

STUBBY BROWN PENCIL. The stubby brown pencil Will it make some marks? On the white blank sheet spread Where thoughts can be stored To ponder over backwards Amid avalanches of motives Often habitually sliding In moods of dark... Read more

poem by Durlabh Singh

STONEHENGE. Circle of twenty-five trilithons Two upright crossed by lintels An inner horse shoe Formation for lower sedge Waiting for centuries of sunrise To arrive at the invited ledge. Ritual in sacrifices Worships of ... Read more