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Dilip Chitre
Dilip Chitre Poems
| 1. | Kiev, Ukraine : April 1980 | 3/29/2012 |
| 2. | Haiku In The Memory Of Dadar Beach Circa 1957 | 3/29/2012 |
| 3. | Your First Lover | 3/29/2012 |
| 4. | Horniman Circle Garden Circa 1964 | 3/29/2012 |
| 5. | In Your Poisoned Wounds | 3/29/2012 |
| 6. | They Tell Me Your Colour Is Blue | 3/29/2012 |
| 7. | Bhopal Embryos | 3/29/2012 |
| 8. | Leningrad, Sans Mandelstam, April 1980 | 3/29/2012 |
| 9. | Prophets | 3/29/2012 |
| 10. | Frescoes | 3/29/2012 |
| 11. | The River Indrayani At Dehu | 3/29/2012 |
| 12. | The View From Chinchpokli | 3/29/2012 |
| 13. | Determined To Tell Lies | 3/29/2012 |
| 14. | The Rains | 3/29/2012 |
| 15. | Ode To Bombay | 3/29/2012 |
| 16. | Lost Images | 3/29/2012 |
| 17. | The House Of My Childhood | 3/29/2012 |
| 18. | At Midnight In The Bakery At The Corner | 3/29/2012 |
| 19. | Flesh Tint | 3/29/2012 |
| 20. | In The Light Of Birds | 3/29/2012 |
| 21. | Father Returning Home | 3/29/2012 |
Father Returning Home
My father travels on the late evening train
Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light
Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes
His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat
Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books
Is falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him getting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
He hurries across the length of the grey platform,
Crosses the railway line, enters the lane,
His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward.
Home ...
Determined To Tell Lies
Determined to tell lies
People are able only to tell the truth -
Said Rahman
I said -
Leave aside truth and lies
People only speak
And what about people who don't speak -
Asked Rahman -
What do they say?
I said -
You know religion, Rahman,
I don't say a thing
