Excited to share my new poetry book "Love, Longing and Loneliness"
Love, Longing & Loneliness by Mohan Sawhney A collection of poems collected over thirty years that express my personal feelings about the...
Rollercoaster
The higher we fly the further we fall The faster we run the greater we hurt The more we laugh the longer we cry The smoother we surf the...
Above and Beyond (Written in 1988!)
There must be more to life. Than chasing shadows. Than clutching at emptiness. Than images and illusions. Than seeing yourself in others....
On This Day…
This is a poem I wrote for a friend’s wedding yesterday: Today in your hand I place my hand Today in your arms I place my body Today in...
I and Me
I jump deftly outside myself to see the socially constructed me The conversation is almost amusing As I look at me interestedly Do you...
Vicissitudes
Grey leaden skies pour out their emotions dreary sadness prevails in the murky atmosphere Birds in their trees droop their heads in...
Poem For My Unborn Child (written in 1995)
As you begin to take shape in body and in my mind I think about what we together will become And I wonder about the miracle that will...
Not Yet
My body has not yet awoken, it still slumbers My morning has not yet broken, it is still in shadows My hunger has not yet been sated, it...
Visions of Myself
Sometimes like driftwood Swept along by the current Caught in whirlpools Cast aside on the shore Wet and defenseless Sometimes like a...
Bugbears
I am disturbed by evanescence. I am disquieted by ephemerality. I am disconcerted by expediency. I am bewildered by instability I am...
