Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Her Crossword










By Gaurav Parab


My head hides buried deep in my hands

The paper besides me, silently demands

Attention between page nine and ten

God, her crossword calls me again


There is an A somewhere in four across

But Two down says she decided by a toss

Her light eyes are a penetrating clue

Why a Y scribbled across clue number two?


She prays for insight every now and then

And the S reads my mind wrong across clue ten

A child who does not want to be taken care of

A woman whose name in 1 across I love


What does her name anyways mean?

Must be a trap, so I rub the page clean

And I start with a new pencil and approach

The clue says she plays to be a coach


I know from a secret she wants to break free

Is that an E, no it must be a T

She wants to be solved, then she changes her mind

There is a yes, in everything she has declined


Whoever made her crossword was good

I don’t think even the good printer understood

Some puzzles drive simple men up the wall

As the pencil slips from their hand to fall


To the waiting ground down below

As I have to pack my things and go

I reach for another newspaper on the rack

But the inviting pen on the ground calls me back




5 comments:

Anonymous said...

One of your finest.


-Aruna

Anonymous said...

Good one...
the flow is flawless n extremely creative.

-Farina Kidwai

Anonymous said...

Bouncer.

But ab thoda thoda samajh mey aa raha hai… How r u?

-Amit Sonawane

Anonymous said...

Cool

-NS

Priyanka Khot said...

Amazing! Loved this one. Could actually see a guy trying to solve the puzzle.

Hats off to you!