Aruna Iyer : Writing

Oasis

Oasis

A Poem by Aruna Iyer


When I’m the happiest most, I think of you And wonder if it’s wrong to feel these routine pleasures When you, in some deser..
Another slave

Another slave

A Poem by Aruna Iyer


I caught the foot he raised in abuseAnd quoted Shelley: Can man be free,If the woman be a slave?I told him he was the subversion ofMy slavery.The chil..
Death by Choice

Death by Choice

A Poem by Aruna Iyer


Clad in my wedding finery,Drenched in the body’s perfumed infidelity,Striped by dreams and hopes struck down by others,Illuminated by the misery..
Rape

Rape

A Poem by Aruna Iyer


My mouth stinks of your violationWhich no amount of mint,Shall mellowI smell it every time I swallowI remember it withEvery unspoken curseI am weaker ..
Black Light

Black Light

A Story by Aruna Iyer


Light, fills our days with pretentious innocence. The colour in everything earthly is but Light in costume. But there would be no Light, were there no..
Two

Two

A Poem by Aruna Iyer


There were always two of themMen, tongues and two large arousalsI was the two-timer: sometimes physicallyMany times mentallySometimes I let their hand..
Reluctant Parasite

Reluctant Parasite

A Poem by Aruna Iyer


A parasite, I know no shame It’s who I am….destined to A life of emotional beggary I cling on to you, your soul and Your ..
Son

Son

A Poem by Aruna Iyer


A tumour grows today,In the place where you grew…There will be more blood,Than which I fed you…Will your hands,Fully formed todayWipe th..
August Lives

August Lives

A Story by Aruna Iyer


August, 1888. Death is a busy affair. Tears get wiped away in haste, last respects are laid to rest at cold feet and the idea of a smile is forgo..
Of...

Of...

A Poem by Aruna Iyer


Of heat that melts gold in the noonAnd rain that moves theEarth below at nightOf a rainy sunshine when theCrows and mynasLose their mind in sacred mat..