You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.