Sunday, April 19, 2026

i love you in tamil

50 shades of love in tamil

Anbu: all encompassing love
Paasam: love between parents and children
Nesam: love between friends, affection 
Kaadhal: romantic love

Tamil has shades 

No need to lean into simile
To describe how i love you 
Like the sea loves the sky
Or a mother loves her child
Or how i love a friend
Or what it means to show love to all

For this one word
Tamil has shades 

Kadhal for romantic love
Paasam for between mum and child
Nesam for between friends 


With Tamil

So inllll

Parivu: compassion
Kaamam: lust
Aravanaipu: care
Sakhi: friendship
Yekkam: yearning
Akkarai: concern
Piriyam: affection 
Pattru : devotion
Virupam: like

Luvu










Saturday, April 11, 2026

recent poems

1. When there are no rules
2. Grief is
3. The stories we tell ourselves
4. I see a photo of my father in law
5. Subtaraneean world
6. Simile poem
7. I shall write of tiny things

subterranean worlds

The subterranean world waits
Biding its time 
For earth to collapse on itself

Under the weight 
Of the cruel mindless foolish 
The rex thought itself mighty 

Never saw the trajectory 
Of the ball of fire 
Until it seared its feet its brains

Now we can see 
All.of us Cassandra 
Still unable to stop it

Earth pulses near its core
Maw open to suck us all in
Disgorge us into the pit of space

Start again 
subterranean thrust to the light 
Maybe we will be kinder wiser 

For a time

#jemstones #plscrit #spwm26day11
#SubterraneanPrompt



When there are no rules

you can sit down to pretend peace talks
then rain bombs on your conversation partner the next day 

You can kill school girls in a primary school,  
and the more and say oops

You can bomb a defenceless ship, guests in another country, 
watch them drown 
and broadcast it on big screens with beaming smiles

You say only the US can do this, 
you say it with pride,
 
We say it with horror
that only the US could be so morally bankrupt,
to sink an invited guest 
in another's home in international waters,
and boast of it as a victory, 
not the act of a spineless cowardly bully

When there are no rules

you can start a world war
because you are bored
or to make more money
or to distract voters from your fraud,
the fact you supported a man who sold children for sex 
or for no reason at all

We hold the American public responsible
For trump has never been false 
He proclaimed who he was
through words, through actions
You thought a man 
boasting of grabbing pussy 
wouldn't be different in other contexts?
And you vote him in not once but twice 
even after his thugs rioted in the capitol? 

You are responsible America

You who supposedly saved the world in world war two
are now leading us bright into world war three
together with your best buddy in blood, Israel

So the chief heroes and chief victims of WWII gang up to become the chief villains in WWIII

And this cycle
will only spiral to the inevitable
when we blow up the one planet in this galaxy 
that supports life as we know it, 
laugh in glee as we drown our selves, our bodies, our souls, our homes, 
our gift 
in self-destructive fumes

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

simile poem

I am blue
Of oceans and skies
Expansive

I am not a tortoise
Ponderous, wise

Rarher I am a dragonfly
Darting from one idea to the next

I am a brook bubbling
Some think me shallow
But i can smoothen rocks to pebbles

I am winter at times
Cold harsh brittle-voiced
The wind weighing my limbs down

But winter doesn't last
So I wait out the black mood

Look to the sea and sky
Admire the tortoise and dragonfly
Dip my toes in a brook

Till I feel like spring again

Friday, April 3, 2026

fathe in law ad a young man

I see a photo of my father-in-law
the moment before the rest of his life, 
a shy smile playing on his face,
the bridegroom

With a chin, cheekbones that could chisel 
he is dazzling even in black and white
His turban rests gently on his head
A feather rises jauntily from it
He is gazing slightly to the
right
as an uncle adjusts his garland,

about to marry the woman 
with whom he will live 50 years, 
without whom he is now bereft