KoKo

08/09/2026

If there is just me and you and you are dying but there are drums beating and I can hear them, it's a good time to call someone for help! Celebrating life with dance, movements in which life flows.

27/08/2026

ताक

गीले सूखे पत्ते मेरे पैरों के नीचे
पापड़ की चूरी सा शोर मचाते
आँखें बंद, सासें दबी,
एक पेड़ से जाकर लिपट गयी
कहीं जाग न जाये बन राखस
जंगल के उस छोर पे जाना है
मेरे पैरों को कुतूहल के पंख लगे
पेड़ों की चादर जो आँखों से ओझल हुई
परदे के पीछे से जैसे
निकला हो कोई आकाश नया
हरा समुंदर अपनी ही मस्ती में
गुनगुना कर बुला रहा हो जैसे मुझे
दो पेड़ों की डालियों से लटक रहा है
वोह विशाल झूला, मैं बैठ गयी
उड़ चला वह मुझे लिए बादलों से मिलने
रेशम की रुई के वोह मुलायम गद्दे
सूरज की किरणों की बाहें
और मैं थकी हुई कई जनमों से
आँख खुली तो नीली चांदनी में
ऐसा लगा जानी पहचानी दो आँखें
बड़ी देर से मुझे देख रही थीं!

-KoKo

22/08/2026

And It's Not Here

The sound of the opening doors
Winds springs of my spine
I had somewhere else to be
And it's not here

They are screaming over each other
The noise in my head, loud
I had somewhere else to be
And it's not here

The footsteps walking my way
Have the sound of expectations
I had somewhere else to be
And it's not here

The world is coming too close
I see faces smiling; I hear empty words
I had somewhere else to be
And it's not here

I am off to swing in the woods
I am off to ride on the waves
The pain gets into the bones
I am off to the path it paves

I am off to the mountains
Finding a long lost boulder
Together go rolling down the cliff
Or to cry on its shoulder

Following the Higanbana
I am off to find my peace
It had to be somewhere here
But it's not now anywhere

-MK

13/08/2026

Fire Dance

The pyre is hard
But this is the first time
There is true rest
Without worries of tomorrow
Or of the past, no regrets
The bed has started to warm up
Uncomfortably
The toes begin to burn
Can't feel the feet
Ashes flying everywhere
Fire dances with a crackle
A large gush of trapped air
Rises in the chest
Will the fear that engulfed me
Go away with this body
I hope it does, now that
It is dead and burning!

MK

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