Salt (Blog)

After so many months

3/29/2021

Today I read Nazim Hikmet,
After so many months of waiting, believing, wandering, retreating
I looked with astonishment at the
words that jumped from the Prague- Berlin train
looking at me in the eye
and making a point in their unique way
that they were here to stay.

Dereflecting

6/22/2020

How are you?

6/4/2020

So, I meet strangers in the street
they look at me and I look at them
a 'how are you?' lurking in our eyes
we want to say the same things
the commonality of disaster
envelops our fragile beings
it rains, it stops, it rains again
we move behind closed doors
our hearts navigating secret stories
we live like strangers finding meaning
in the destiny of uncertainty
the cold clock looks on, unimpressed
its arms stretched forever into eternity
the longer I stand, the smaller I get
fading into oblivious indignity
and like some old song that comes to mind
I ask myself 'how are you?'
the silence is deafening
How am I? How should I be?
I am not sure if I have
ever been able to answer that question
convincingly.
© Jaspreet Mann, How are you? (2020)

Under the Jamun Tree

5/26/2020

Click on the pic to access the kindle edition.

Meanwhile on Earth

5/19/2020

Never before have I felt this kind of temporariness and uncertainty transcend my existence. This poem, that I wrote long ago came to my mind during this time.
*click on the pic to hear the poem.

While we Live

4/25/2020

Happy to share some poems that I wrote during this lockdown. Kindle edition available here:

Today

3/25/2020

Today practice what you preach. Don't talk about the boredom of work from home. Don't talk about your difficulties. Think about people who are nudged into margins and documented in statistics. Pay your maid. Pay all those people who worked for you. Pay them now because a few rupees will save a life, a family. When you voice all those challenges about working from home, remember those people who don't have a voice!

Sad to see things unfold in the country

2/29/2020

What's your fireground?

2/16/2020

Yes, that's how you look
you look at clouds and not see the rain
you look at life and not see the pain.
-Jaspreet Mann

Maybe

1/10/2020