Nobody ever wonders...

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Nobody ever wonders...

Jan 17 9:30 pm!

Slowly the flowers fade away,

Slowly their soul dries...

And nobody ever wonders,

Why softly the swallow cries!

Silently the clouds gather,

And silently the mist forms...

And nobody ever wonders,

What caused the thunder storm!

Swiftly the dark arrives,

Swiftly the light is lost...

And nobody ever wonders,

How great was the cost!

My roles!

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My roles...

Jan 16 2:00 pm

When the hours of the day will slip away,

I will cry to my pillow tonight!

When I have played the role I have chosen to play,

I will cease for a while to fight!

I will give up the pretense for little while,

For on the morrow I must bravely smile!

I will forget to play by the many rules,

And retreat to the paradise reserved for fools!

Yes, I shall cry, shall mourn, shall weep...

And my every tear in your soul shall seep....

I will throw the chains of benefit aside,

And for a moment small flow with the tide!

Then I shall wake with the rising Sun,

I shall brush aside all hurt, all fear,

And with the earth I shall move as one,

That has never cried, nor known a tear!

The teacher!

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The teacher!

Jan 15 7:00 pm

Armed with knowledge...

Claims to fame from far,

The pedagogue prunes sans mercy,

Aims to heal last, first scar!

Alone, firmly he holds!

The key to galaxies galore,

Riddles rule the roost,

As the minds swoop and soar!

With an all seeing eye,

He oversees the fall...

Of vices deep rooted,

And pride standing tall!

In it's place he plants,

Seeds of the seeking mind,

One that all it's aims,

In truth's shadows does bind!

And having questioned,

Questions once more...

The pursuer, the creator 

Of facts, fiction, folklore!

So slowly this creation,

Leaves his creator behind...

The pedagogue's first defeat,

His first victory enshrined!

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The thorn!

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The thorn!

Jan 14 11:15 pm

At first a thought,

Of all loving shorn...

Soon a terrible storm,

Blots out the morn!

Hurt breeding hurt,

By pure love borne...

The dream's the nightmare,

And life's forlorn!

Agonies' first gift, 

Pure hurt is born...

Deceit unfeigned...

Tales of the thorn!!!

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The way to be!

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The way to be...

Jan 13 11:20 pm

Live the idea,

Love the dream...

Fight the waves,

Go upstream!

Fight realities,

With even half a chance...

If you can't be the music,

Try to be the dance!

Cracked, smashed and shattered,

A broken mirror be...

Broken not beaten...

The only way to be!!!

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The loving thought!

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The loving thought!

Jan 12 11:45 pm

I love the loving thought,

You may cross my way!

Shedding my old skin,

Renewed for you each day...

I love the tender idea

You may hear me one day,

Endless combinations,

To stumble across your way!

I love the blushing love 

That lets me find a way,

To make you come alive...

Through each breath I take each day!

I love each loving word,

I write for you each day...

Till I will never need a single thing,

To your soul to find my way!

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Sunrise...

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Sunrise

Jan 12 8:45pm

Swiftly it strikes

A sword of pure light 

Orange, red, burnished gold

As it fragments the  night...

Night of fevered dreams...

First nudged , then awakened.

Out of slumbered reveries,

Old and young souls shaken!

At first a blushing red,

As the new bride flushed!

Soon burning boldly white,

Time's white charger rushed!!

Urgent, urging is its call,

For deeds urging, more urgent still!

Fresh lands to plough, to nurture,

Fresh minds to fire, fresh loves to till!

And the hard taskmaster dawn,

A searing, burning example sets!

As sparing not it's life, it's soul...

It pays to night it's untold debts!

So through the day it guards,

Time's ever ceaseless flight!

Waxing, waning, yet ceasing not...

To be the source of light!!

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Birth of a mother!

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Birth of a mother

Jan 11 1:30 pm

Living life on her terms,

With never a backward glance...

By the child's arrival awakened,

Shaken  out of her lifelong trance!

Birthing hopes,  braving fears,

She fearfully fearless grows...

All fragments of the treasured past,

To the passing winds she throws!

She pines for peace of maidenhood 

A peace for ever lost...

To find new pastures tranquil more,

And mighty  is the cost...

A heavy heart, sleep laden eyes,

Pains unrelieved,  a tale untold!

It is the death of a fragile lass,

It is the birth of a woman bold!  

The fevered, old loves fall away,

Quick, blasted, torn, thick and fast!

As love the much used empty term,

Laughs hardest and the last...

Sacrifice - too pale a word,

For her giddy joys, for her hopes forlorn
Having given all, she gives again,

And then, yes then is a mother born!

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Live a little!

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Live a little!

Jan 9  11:00 pm

Bereft of grace,

Life's a desert just!

Love to ashes,

And dust to dust...

Deny no pain,

Hurt if you must!

Burn up with passion...

Crave, desire, lust!!

Let it seep and mark,

Wound the bonds of trust...

Live a little,

For die you must!

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On books!

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On books

Jan 8 2:39 pm

Two pages they have,

To cover their soul!

With a single word

Does their world unfold!!

Some mad man's rant,

Some woman's tear...

Sun lit laughter,

And waters clear...

The act of birthing,

And acts of faith!

Lives snuffed out...

Life after death!

First love blushing,

With souls urgent...

Dark love's despair,

No place to vent...

A teachers dream,

A scholars search!

Facts and fiction,

They merrily merge!

The perfect marriage,

A grand affair...

Details that leap,

Out of thin air!!

Some sinister deeds,

The gaps to fill...

The parts untold,

More sinister still!

The scientist's query,

The artist's dream!

Atomic break down,

The Planetary scheme...

All this and more,

As the words roll on...

Through the world of books,

Worlds birthed and born!

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Mind Games!

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Mind games!

Jan 7        7:30 pm

Dip a little,

Dabble a lot...

Freeze, then reach out,

Play cold, play hot!

Blow on embers,

Idolize, hypnotize!

Cold showers...

Victimize, penalize! 

Break, be broken...

We heal to mark...

Turn on the lights,

Bring on the dark!

           -*-

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Words!

The Fall

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The fall!

Jan 6 7:00 pm

In a maze of reality,

I lost my dreams...

Yet I lost my realities,

Chasing moonbeams!

I found my soul,

In the darkest pathway...

Wounded and lost,

Tortured it lay...

But it never stopped beating.,,

To the rhythm of love's call,

It's glorious rising star,

And it's inevitable fall!

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Winter Fun!

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Winter fun!

Jan 5th 3:30 pm

On a fog eaten day just for fun...

What do you like besides the sun?

Blankets warm, and burning stoves...

Steaming cups, & an eye that roves!

Woolen cozies and grandma's tale...

With a smoking brownie should all else fail!

Moth eaten books, some songs so old,

Their rare records now sell as gold!  

Twinkling lights beyond Christmas days...

New Year's Eve is on the way!

At the mounting washing a suppressed sigh...

Sleep tumbled hair, love tumbled eyes!

Giggles, banter, many a hearty meal

Some real sore hearts and feet did heal!

On a fog eaten day just for fun...

Could one wish more for any one?!

Warm mittens

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The retreat!

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The retreat...

Jan 5 12:35pm

With the first breath of life,

The first dye of death is cast...

With the first step in the sun,

The first shadows of life come fast...

Words once spoken are forever,

Engraved in the past...

And ones in love with nothing,

For nothing forever lasts!

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The Madman!

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The madman...

January 4th 1 pm

Rising with the sun,

Sleeping with the birds...

Startled into life...

A life, he daily discards!

Vacant eyes like vacant lots,

Filled with thoughts from far...

Now acquiescence, now disdain,

Laughing at the stars!

Buffeted by the winds,

Protected by the dust,

Quickened comes his breath...

By neither love nor lust...

Layer and layer of grime,

Dirt his only sheath...

Had come covered in blood,

Will go covered by the heath...

Now and then a gleam,

Of understanding on his face...

Before you catch up though,

He's already changed the pace...

A reminder, a memory,

That man was animal born

Full of fancies throbbing

And of all fancies shorn!

Bare as the tree he calls home 

Hunger his driving force

Not trained in the art of language 

Yet as the best he swore!

And as he lies to sleep,

On a heap of broken rules...

His every breath a lash...

On the yardstick of the fools!

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To Love - nascent!

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To love - nascent!

January 2 onwards to January 3!

I live for the life you give me,

I die for a single touch...

I rise for the  joys you give me,

And at fleeting realities clutch!

I long for your voice to wake me,

My sleep and your dreams are one!

I think for your thoughts to fill me,

And love can't be undone!!

I yearn for your soul to touch me,

My body your barren land...

I wait for your smile to warm me, Splayed by your loving hand!

I long, I wait, I yearn,

I shimmer, peak, then break..

Till slowly like the ocean 

I burn up for your sake!

Koto Dukho pete hoy michi michi...

Aar tateo pawa thake, dawa noy....

What beggars are we born!

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The offering!

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The Offering 

Jan 2 9: 30 pm

From the ground gathered freely,

A shaded grass, a fallen flower 

A star shaped leaf, a clover green,

A ripened fruit, a rising prayer!

At first a note, then  chorus...

Wants budding by the hour!

Greed growing like the serpent,

Religion - it's crowning power...

And in that serpentine queue,

Many a flower was trod...

Many a sigh suppressed...

To be told to an absent God!

Created  by an imagination,

Twisted as its need...

The cult of worship strengthened,

Upon the wings of greed!

The lengthening queue fast pushed on,

The incense boy, the rising priest...

Flowers wilting with their own weight,

Of senses this a senseless feast...

Earth raided of its jewels...

The old man's cry, the young's  lament!

The beggars look, the pauper's dirge,

Life's requiem, the soul's soft plaint...

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The first sin!

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The first sin...

Jan 1 11:00 pm 

We come to life with boldness,

Unique in its assuming grace...

We grab, we wail, we take hold,

Emboldened, we aim to ace!

And such are the babes world worships

Adore, their whims fulfill...

Innocence knows not this is,

Not life, but its frill...

The sands of time flows steady,

We strive to be heard in the din...

And what  we knew as glory,

The world calls it, our sin!

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The elements!

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The elements!

Dec 31st 9:45 pm

The earth lay steady, strong, silent...

A calm and cool surface!

The wind moved with an abandon,

Filling every height and base!

The spark caught, blazed, then roared...

Hot with it's inner fire...

The water came in great waves,

Quenching all desires!

Inmates on a rolling point,

Coordinates of space and time...

Flashing, dashing, clashing...

The start of the ancient rhyme!

Creators of their master...

And master piece too!

Man - their victory and victor...

Souls torn between the two!!!

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The tree!

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The tree...

Dec 30th 4:00 pm

He found her lifeless,

Cool, tough....

Small,  cornered, indrawn,

A bit rough...

He cast her away, careless,

With one sunny fleeting smile...

And sprang to life a precious seed,

By the charms of life beguiled!

She put down roots, at first shy,

Then boldly dug she deep...

And skyward striking vivid,

Her soul first flashed, then leaped!

She spread her arms, awry...

Blushing with the dawn of grace!

First flowers, coloured with love!!

She had finally found her place!!!

His first touch filled her life soul...

She never forgot the hour!

She waited why she knew not...

He had come to pluck a flower!

Grieved she shed each covering...

He thought it was the fall!

She folded into herself,

And wondered at his gall!

He craved her flowers, her warmth,

As the cold winds harshly blew...

Life lured him on yet strongly...

And to his axe, he flew!

Nature wailed with ice storms,

As he cut her, quick to her core...

She remembered him taking her flowers,

She had lived this scene before...

He hewed her to his liking,

She laughed at the twists of fate...

As he wrote his ode to her flowers,

She lay burning in his grate!

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On happiness!

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On happiness...

Dec 29 10:00 pm

Happiness springs from giving,

To get is our real joy...

Creating creates happiness,

What bliss when we destroy!

It is the painful journey...

To stations of delight,

The pleasures of darkness...

And ecstasies of pure light!

The start of desires,

Building anticipation...

The onslaught of denial,

It's own satisfaction!

Life's endless gaiety,

At being fulfilled.,,

And the accompanying doubt,

What lies beyond the hill!

Bursts of love's first love!

Feisty, brash and bold...

The blush of last love,

With embers going cold!

The labour and the pain,

Of ideas being born...

Joy at approaching death..,

To the tired soul, careworn!

Music is it's life,

An ode to silence too...

Memories moulded to needs,

Of rainbow coloured hues...

The pastel shades of laughter

The darker shades of pain

Happines - man's design

To be happy again!

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On Life!

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On life

Dec 28th  9:00 pm 

Life played on the flutes of Hamlin,

Death followed merrily on...

The ugly duckling traversed ,

To fly the flight of swans!

The beggar journeyed in groups,

The King rode alone...

One relieved of all shackles,

One shackled to the throne!

Beauty walked, bit daunted,

By rain and wind and sun...

While having lost all, plainness, 

The veil of darkness won!

Riches, heaving its weight...

Moved just a little slow,  

Poverty wailing raced on...

With time's tidal flow!

Genius paved its own way,

It lit the blazing trail... 

Host of mediocrity rushed on,

As fools where angels fail!

The worker worked in earnest,

Making dust piles all in a row...

The idler wondered idly...

Why the dust didn't lessen or grow!

The gardener watched his blossoms,

Freely the thorns did thrive!

Of weeds and grass, can one tell

Who was happier alive?

The poet dreamed with mere words, 

The colours barely there...

The mason built with bare hands,

Both castles in the air!

The teacher, rabbi, and guide..

Took many a path to teach,

That the path to learning

Must be unique for each!

The scholar in his pursuit,

The midnight lamp did burn...

He found that fools with wise alike,

All ended in the urn!

The old and young chortled,

Youth challenged, midlife smirked...

And nobody seemed to remember

Where the tale had arced!

The "taking love"grabbed blindly,

The "giving love" did blind...

One took the chains of freedom,

The other to freedom did bind!

The hurting grew with each hurt

Striking to hurt the more...

The avenged and the avenger,

Both left a little sore....

Desire with its agenda,

Did madness infuse and brew...

Till renouncing all the wise one,

The more desirable, he grew!

The mother in her love child,

Her own reflection adored...

The creator creations' shadow...

And so humanity soared!

Moving with the high tide

Receding with the low

Life it's own first jewel

It's last Herculean blow!

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On her!

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On her!

Dec 27  1:00 pm

Flash a smile...

Hide a tear,

Burn a scar...

Be a dear!

Fallen legacies,

Are legacies still...

Tales to tell,

And lives to till...

And so she lives

And so she dies

With every love

A loving sigh!

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