Category: Kushal Poddar

2 new poems by Kushal Poddar : 29th April, 2022 & The Noir Heart

29th April 2022

The coffee, born cold, takes its sweet time.
I wait, my eyes - half and half. My patience 
moonwalks through the shrapnel of wee hours' dreams.

The invasion of reality assesses the assets
intact and the assets lost.
You say out of context, "After a certain age
men need only one candle on top of their cakes."

I am more concerned about the line of control.
A wish-breath remains loaded in my lungs' silo.


The Noir Heart

"Examine your desire."
The priest says.
They become two last leaves
on the dying tree,
and the moon and its
siamese shadow on the rain water.

Tim speaks first on behalf of his
desire, his heart,
"To kill the husband of my liver."
An owl slashes through.
The priest nods, "Now that you
have said so, he is dead and reborn
in his next breath."


Wolfpack Contributor: Kushal Poddar

Poetry from Kushal Poddar : The Little Voyeur Incident, War & Peace

2 new poems by Kushal Poddar : Drinking with a Priest & Rabbit, Dance

Poetry from Kushal Poddar : The Little Voyeur Incident, War & Peace

(c)Kushal Poddar

The Little Voyeur Incident

The staircase swirls down deep 
right into the id,
and I realise I am red
from this vertigo prone voyeurism,
this watching my brother down there
kissing the new house-help.

I cannot help it. I stare. I stare.

My brother's daughter has 
emptied out our dwelling
to his ex for the weekend.
Summer and noontime, 
heat wears frills, and has an Alice-fall.
I try to reach out, fail.


War & Peace

The way I can draw a Christmas tree
with three arrowheads and a straight spine,
or draw blood by removing two sharp angles
from the top, I offer you peace;
our lovemaking can be altered
by annulling Good from the flesh of Intention.

The household, a planet self-contained,
exists and ceases to with the rise and fall 
of our curtains. I wonder at the manner
night hides other worlds, and their screaming
passion and hatred in the arsenals.
The solitaire of the noise our leaking faucet makes
cuts the silence into thin slices.

I can relate to the bonding of the wind
and the leaves. Now it is a dance. Now, the fall.

Wolfpack Contributor: Kushal Poddar


2 new poems by Kushal Poddar : Drinking with a Priest & Rabbit, Dance


A Poetry Series by Kushal Poddar “Hiraeth Series”

Wolfpack Contributor: Kushal Poddar

An author and a father, Kushal Poddar, editor of ‘Words Surfacing’, authored eight books, the latest being ‘Postmarked Quarantine’. His works have been translated in eleven languages.

Find and follow him at amazon.com/author/kushalpoddar_thepoet

Author Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/KushalTheWriter/

Blurbs for my (David L O’Nan) upcoming book “Before the Bridges Fell” with Cajun Mutt Press from Kushal Poddar

“David scrivens sparks and flickers, and if you, the reader, add your wind of imagination to those the result will be a constant fire, passionate and bright. His poetry is the song of passion, cultured from both inner and outer worlds.”

-Kushal Poddar, author of eight books

“Before the Bridges Fell” by me David L O’Nan Poetry book is out today on Cajun Mutt Press

Available Now: Before I Turn Into Gold Inspired by Leonard Cohen Anthology by David L O’Nan & Contributors w/art by Geoffrey Wren

Bending Rivers: The Poetry & Stories of David L O’Nan out now!

Fevers of the Mind founder bio: David L O’Nan (WolfPack Contributor)

Wolfpack Contributor: Kushal Poddar

2 new poems by Kushal Poddar : Drinking with a Priest & Rabbit, Dance

Wine, Drink, Alcohol, Glasses, Glassware

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Drinking With a Priest

Later the priest moots,
"Some dying men stares at me,
holds their gaze as if 
by the power death has vested in them 
they can see through me and my faith
and how I think about something else,
perchance about tomorrow's lunch.
In the life's Venn diagram death is ∩,
and at that point being and beyond intersects.
A man can see or accept the truth of his
lifelong blindness."

The beers in front of us sucks the warmth
of the room. They taste acerbic. 
Through the orange translucency
we can see eachother, a little distorted.

I wish I could see the words compadre
expects to hear, but this is not that day.


Rabbit, Dance

No trace of the magician,
a shot glass of jazz
left full on the table,
I decide to convey the bad news
to the organisers
later,

and shake my head;
the rabbit maze-running inside
won't fall out. 
I pick up the glass from the table.
Now I dance with the shadow,
a rabbit in me.
The grass of silence undulates.
The audience waiting out there
sounds like an orchestra of crickets
in the befouled greenroom.


3 new poems by Kushal Poddar : “Cabin Song” “Earlier””The O of the Sky”


Poetry Showcase from Kushal Poddar

A Poetry Series by Kushal Poddar “Hiraeth Series”

Check out Kushal’s new book through IceFloe Press.

Wolfpack Contributor: Kushal Poddar

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