Thursday, 27 May 2021

MY CORNER


Do you have your own space / a corner which holds all your favourite belongings? 

It's that niche which separates you out from your routine, mentally and physically. Does it ring a bell...that maybe I haven't ever thought about it! I kept going with the flow. Accepting the space around me, occupied it and went on. I never believed or thought that I want that space. To sit relax, be happy about, to contemplate within chaos, to hold on to when everything else is falling apart, to snuggle away. The more I take care of it, stylize it, embrace it, the more it gives back. 

It took me 38 years to realise that I want that corner of mine. A corner which I can carve out as my own space. It's a gathering of all 'my things'. A book, a pen and enormous feelings i expressed through my poems,  the colours which gave me a liberty of adding them into my life. My plant, my O2, my small cute owl, a memory and an aroma dispenser to lift the mood up....Certainly things will get added as the time passes. But I will always keep going back to that corner. 
Have you experienced this? Unknowingly? Have you tried specifying your space?

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Sunday, 16 May 2021

Vadapav

वडापाव
गरमा गरम वडा आणि लुसलुशीत पाव
मधेच लाल चटणी दाण्याची लाव
मिरची खा चवीला अधून मधून
दाद दे तिला किंचित ठसकून......

डोळ्यात पाणी येईल लागेल थोडा खाट
तरी संपव सगळा मज्जा आहे त्यात
आता मात्र एक कर, नको पिउस मिल्कशेक
खमंग चव तशीच जिभेवर राहू देत....

हॉटेलात नाही जमायचा हा फर्मास बेत
हातगाडीवरच मिळते स्पेशल प्लेट
दोन्ही हातात धरुन घास तोडायचा
मॅनर्सना बिनधास्त पूर्णविराम द्यायचा....

गरिबाचं जेवण अशी याची आहे टर्म
मधल्या वेळी खातात काही जस्ट फॉर फन
पण Potato and bun मधे वडा पावची मजा नाही
आणि नंतर फक्कड़ चहा शिवाय खादाडीला रजा नाही.

अमृता