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Uncut Poetry — 326 episodes

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Title
1

This light like love

2

Before Beauty Takes Its Toll

3

A Poem as a Gift for a Girl With No Confidence in Herself

4

Closer to Death. Nearer to God.

5

Marriage Made Me a Philosopher

6

The Long Now of Us

7

A Child Mulling on Life Beside the Sea

8

The Art of Living

9

Memories of Peppermint Mocha

10

Lunatics in Search of Peace

11

The Ironies of Love

12

It Takes Time for Love to Find Comfort

13

Where We Start & Where We End

14

Replay - When Did You Say?

15

The Sound of a Man Falling

16

The Lives of Others

17

The Space Between Our Words

18

A Poem as a Gift for a Girl With No Confidence in Herself

19

I Think I Can Be An Adventure With You

20

Stealing Beauty

21

A Love Letter from a Frustrated Husband to an Exasperated Wife

22

Let There Be Fewer Stories This Winter

23

Going Home

24

When We Know Love as Found

25

The Valentine Shore

26

A Primer on How to Deal With (Being) Hurt

27

May Your Journey Be Gentle & Safe (as I see a gorgeous eclipse)

28

Moving Tapestry of My Awe

29

Are All Lovers Pilgrims?

30

Replay - Letting Go (a childhood song)

31

Finding Home in Places We've Left Behind

32

When it Rains, Love Slips

33

Lovers Who Synchronise (& those who don't)

34

Just Be Air

35

Waiting

36

So Tonight That I Might See You

37

The Morning After

38

Finding Myself Beyond You

39

I Heard The Other Day

40

I Have Watched You Make the Ordinary Holy

41

Let Me Sit Beside You, Quietly

42

Lemonade at the End of a Buzzing Day

43

Do Wait For My Ashes

44

Luck by Chance

45

On Falling & Failing

46

When We Meet Again

47

En route (how I encountered war)

48

Survivors

49

Tell Me, Tell Me, How a Tear Was Born

50

Here We Are In The Years

51

When Did You Say?

52

Will We Ever Trust The Skies Again?

53

Sometimes Life Leaves You Alone

54

Living Inside a Wound

55

As Summer Finds a Beginning

56

Return to You

57

Elegante Solitude

58

I Come With Mud

59

I Said I Love You First

60

Assisted Suicide

61

I Call Myself a Poet

62

Last Legs of the Day

63

Tenderly

64

Love Actually (more & mess)

65

Sometimes We Remember So Hard

66

I Would Hate To Be That Man

67

Waiting for My Flight to Chennai at the Kolkata Airport

68

Walking Into The Winter Sun

69

Perpetrators & Victims of Love

70

Different Ways in Which You Can Fail to Say Thank You

71

The Stranger In Me

72

I Have Often Thought About God

73

The Happiest Couple You Will Ever See

74

I Heard That You Just Set Off on a Journey

75

In Memory & Mist

76

Why I Disagree With The Moon

77

Replay - Those Days of a Lost Summer

78

Dawn in Hampi

79

That Dull Boring Place Called Life

80

An Ordinary Poem On Love

81

That Ordinary Lie

82

Before Bruises Become Wounds

83

Whilst Looking at a Newlywed Couple and Thinking of All Our Years

84

I Have Been Thinking of Life Again

85

Home Tonight

86

Quietly Yours

87

Recalibrating Dawns

88

I Can Sense Her Loneliness

89

Old Friends

90

The Party is Outraged!!!

91

Memories of Sex Addiction

92

Old Poems for Old Loves

93

What is Loss, She Asked Me

94

Living Tragedy Forward

95

Bella's Meadow

96

Her Breasts as Shelter

97

Musings as I Step Into the Morning (Leaving a Lover Sleeping)

98

A Meaning Without Questions

99

Punctuation for Lovers

100

Replay - The Improbability of Wishes

101

Grief Strikes Where Love Struck First

102

Dreaming of You

103

Life for Rent

104

The Art of the Lonely Good Deed

105

Politics on the Dining Table

106

Adventures in Two Worlds

107

Adrift (on parents and lovers we survive)

108

In Search of a God

109

Lovers as Witnesses

110

Things We Gather

111

A Legacy of Kindness

112

Coming to Your Side of The Bed

113

Replay - In the Drift We Will Find Our Certainties

114

Tracing Shadows On Your Back

115

And The Crowds Roared, As The Music Rose

116

Mr Hoskote, have you visited Kashmir recently?

117

Maybe, a Little Kindness

118

Replay - A Home as an Open Dream

119

I Like The Ordinary Life

120

A Sense of Her Tenderness

121

The Woman You See

122

How a Poem Finds Itself

123

Your Body is a Truth

124

What Stretches in Front

125

Letting Go (because I’m alive)

126

Replay - The Complexity of Simple Lives

127

Changing Your Address (on marrying & moving homes)

128

Birthday Musings of an Ageing Man

129

Replay - The Things We Become When We Leave

130

Of Love (& other bouts of sadness)

131

The Tragedy of the Other

132

Mornings (as entry points to life)

133

Love as a Snack

134

What I Miss is The Tender Moment

135

Loneliness (oh these rains)

136

Darkness

137

Balancing Beginnings

138

Why We Should be Happy With Berry Jam on Table Edges

139

Across The Universe

140

Living in a World Deficient in Hugs

141

Damaged Bulbs in a Parlour

142

A Cynical Old Man Acknowledges His Birthday Very Grudgingly

143

Minor Earth Major Sky

144

I WIll Leave The Last Line For You To Fill

145

The Grace That We Give

146

On Growing Up (that haze of sunshine & dust)

147

My Mother is Full of Water and Ready for Sonography

148

Of Rain-Engulfed Rooms and Lovers in Spate

149

Yearning (and other things we carry in the journey)

150

Memory Keeper

151

Replay: Favourite People (Who We Love and Leave)

152

Miles Apart

153

One Quiet Woman is Much Like Another

154

Compatriots of Trust

155

If I Commit Suicide

156

Finding Home in Broken Places

157

Replay : Come When The Heat Of Noon Has Still Not Dimmed

158

I Fell In Love With You (Again) Beside The Tin of Sardines

159

As We Meet Again At The End of The Day

160

When Words Despair For Stories

161

Gather Me

162

For The One Who Found Her Silence

163

Letting Go (A Childhood Song)

164

Tenderness in The Pause

165

Dysfunctional Families (and other joys)

166

This: One Grace

167

Aaschi

168

Finding Ways To Survive (Each Other)

169

Replay: Lose A Lover Not A Friend

170

The Love Story of An Accountant & A Poet

171

For Nothing More Than A Look Of Me

172

Ruins Have Permanent Flames

173

She Held His Hand As He Drifted

174

No Revolution Is Complete Without A Ruined Soul

175

The Comfort of Her Being

176

Falling Into A New Year

177

The Truth of Lies

178

Let Life Break Your Heart

179

A Guide To The Difficult Art of Life (Whilst Making Love)

180

How Can I Remain Calm

181

The One Who Left (Herself Behind)

182

Infinite Tenderness

183

The Life & Times of a Song

184

In the Winter of Our Relationships

185

And I Know These of You

186

Such are Such Days (or the days I make love to her)

187

Ceremony of Longing

188

The Passing of Autumn

189

Finding Parking Lots (for Love)

190

How I Stumbled in My Search for Eternity

191

When I Hear the Whistle of a Passing Train

192

On Some Additions to Introspective Psychology

193

Flutter

194

Of Bodies in Bed & Uncertain Joys

195

For Anyone Who Bleeds

196

Windblown Om

197

Let Everything Else Be, Let It Be

198

When Breath Becomes Air

199

One Morning, The Ants

200

Favourite People (Who We Love And Leave)

201

Dancing In The Rains

202

And She Waited For My Call

203

Difficult Child

204

The Things We Become When We Leave

205

An Onanist’s Guide to Loneliness

206

A Garden of Departures

207

Waiting For a Storm

208

The Tragedy of Seeing Life as a Broken Enterprise

209

In The Drift We Will Find Our Certainties

210

Come When The Heat of Noon Has Still Not Dimmed

211

What Do I Leave Behind?

212

The Complexity of Simple Lives

213

Those Days of a Lost Summer

214

The Complex Algorithms of Giving

215

He Made Lasagna Before He Left

216

Blood & Light in the War Zone

217

In the Darkness of Our Autobiographies

218

Lose a Lover Not a Friend

219

Sounds of Living and the Dead

220

Midas Touches Himself

221

Uncut Poetry Salon featuring Soul Poets Kashiana & Indran

222

A Summery Love Story (in the middle of winter)

223

Finally Home

224

I Never Wanted Parts of You Which Were Easy

225

New York: Concurrently Schizophrenic.

226

Capturing the Feeling

227

Who Do You Choose to Become When Alone

228

Stopping by a Café to Drink a Poem

229

New Year Special! Top 5 of Uncut Poetry!!

230

The Slant of the Winter Sun

231

A Home as An Open Dream

232

I Am a Residue of Life

233

The Improbability of Wishes

234

When the Evening Drift Brings Him to Me (for Dad)

235

The 101 of How to Praise (someone you love)

236

When the Goddesses Depart

237

In the Softest Sunshine of Winter

238

The Door is Unlocked. I am Awake.

239

Crimson Flowers in Jallianwala Bagh

240

The Final Good-bye (or Why Lovers Decide to Die Together)

241

Searching for Coffee in Jaipur

242

Finding Souls Between Their Legs

243

Lost Atlas of Belonging

244

These Darned Long Distance Relationships

245

Why Don‘t You Make Love to Me Anymore?

246

It Takes a Long Time to Arrive From Not Very Far Away

247

Hope is Merely Fear With a Poor Choice of Lipstick

248

Uncut Poetry Salon featuring the Poetry Busker Ryan Tomlin

249

The Power of No

250

Love is an Unreasonable Yearner

251

Bringing The Storm Home

252

Uncut Poetry Salon featuring the Award-Winning African-American Poet Katerina Canyon!

253

Heartbreak

254

Tea With Naomi Shihab Rye

255

Mother's Rambling Lessons on Life Imparted in Morning Walks in my Childhood

256

Extraordinary Life

257

Tenderness

258

Lovers of Broken Mountains

259

Of the Moon (and Other Things Which Don't Know They are Beautiful)

260

Making Love in a Cathedral on a Stormy Day

261

Meditations On An Evening

262

Call Me By Your Name

263

Vaccine (or Ways to Save Love from Itself)

264

I Carry Love in the Hearse of My Arms

265

I Think I Am In Love With You

266

Stories Which Survive

267

My Mother's Lines

268

A Morning Ramble on How Love is Rediscovered at the Bottom of Rubble

269

Kintsugi

270

The Sublime in the Ordinary

271

Fallen Flowers

272

Broken Ribs as A Barometer of Love

273

Chemo: As I Battle Myself

274

I Don't Think Poetry Will Save Us. And Yet, and Yet...

275

How to Hold Love as it Breaks

276

An Epitaph Made of Light & Air

277

Sipping Tea in a Rumi Morning

278

The Ageing of Love

279

When We Were One With The Stars

280

A Love Poem to an Office

281

Rediscovering the Flawed Beauty of Love

282

Let Them Bring Any Year

283

My Little Zen Warrior

284

Kripa (a blessing from a daughter)

285

Indian Summers

286

Seasons as Consultations to Life

287

The Girl Who Could Lose Everything For Hope

288

Love (then) Is Also Patience

289

How She Knew (that he was unfaithful)

290

In Which He Cries. And She Clears The Skies.

291

Perils of Breakup Sex (or Why I Can't Keep My Legs Closed for You)

292

She's a Fierce One, My One

293

I Should Have Loved More Wisely (They Say)

294

That Gorgeous Evening When You Left

295

I Surrender To That Feeling Again

296

How Mothers are Nature's Return Gifts

297

In The Nook (Special Episode)

298

Daughters Who Don't Listen (& Other Ways To Be Brave)

299

Not Making Love; Only Being In Love

300

Love's Night of The Long Knives

301

On Breaking Up (Without Breaking)

302

We Looked Out Into the Fading Day

303

Lovers In The Morning

304

How To Make Love To A Haibun!

305

Love (After The Stories Are Told)

306

One Summer

307

Tea-a-Tete with Mum & Dad

308

Distances: Kaifi Azmi Ke Liye

309

Fear In A Prayer's Home

310

Map My Body, Lover

311

In Concert

312

Her Grace Without Notice

313

A Tragedy with Two Faces

314

I Can Be Your Poem

315

Departures

316

Yes..

317

Rediscovering Heaven

318

Coffee, You & Me

319

Calcutta - A Lover's Epitaph

320

The Importance of Faith in Love

321

Missing My Old Chaos

322

On Social Distancing (& Other Ways to Come Close)

323

A City Made of Our Sighs

324

I love you

325

The Immensity of Our Tiny Selves

326

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