Wednesday, January 6, 2016

On grace!


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On grace
Dec 26    1:02pm
Sun washed warmth
Artless smiles
Graced with love
Sans craft or guile

Such are the gifts
We bring to life
And loose them somewhere
In a maze of strife 

Till a glimpse of light
Melts the darkness as one
Moved by life
Touched by the blazing sun!



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On grief....
Dec 25    8:44 pm
When everything becomes a victim of control+alt+delete!

Life came like a breath of true love,
But I was not free to live...
Life asked for nothing, not one thing,
Even nothing, was I able to give...
Life offered me a banquet,
And I could not it receive!
And as the low tides approached.....
I had not learnt to grieve!







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On origins!


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On origins!

Dec 25        2:00 pm

At first a warming touch
The end of ice age brought
The streams of life awakened
With a little slumber fraught...
And then the racing waters ,
Gently made its way...
Onward, downward, forward,
Frenzied to meet the bay!
The meeting, clashing, mixing, breaking...
Unspoken love and spoken wars...
Falling, rising, falling again
To wish upon a wishing star!




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The pictures...


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The pictures
The one I went to sleep while writing and woke up thinking of!

Started dec 24 12:05 am
Completed dec 24 12:26 pm

Youth came first with sunlit trees
And sun flowers all afield 
Blue dungarees rolled, slight askew 
With a blue, blue cap as shield...
A blue, blue cap the only shield...
From the cotton candied sky,
Ruminating on a blade of grass
With neither a care, not sigh!

Love came next in a marbled hall
Arched with a white, white arch
White curtains filtering light so light
Verily, a wedding march!
And there on a table all pristine white... 
Upon the china lay,
Seeds of the pomegranate scattered 
A red, red rosé, no spray!

Hunger  followed adamant,
To vanquish, conquer, and own...
Blazing, burning, yearning...
Reaping, what it had not sown!
Scarring deeply, deeply scarred...
No falter in its gaze,
Stoked by the winds of craving,
A fireplace ablaze!

And sheltered in their falling shadows
Wisdom stirred, to blossom slow
Shadowed by the holy basil
In the dusk of life, the lamp did glow
Dim stars lit the evening sky 
A conch shell sound, last prayer's incense 
Wood fires light, life starts anew
With pain acute and joy intense!












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On missing!


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On missing
Dec 23    9:05 pm

Miss your words around me...
Miss your thoughts in mine!
Miss your smile that's just for me...
In my heart enshrined!!
Miss you, till it hurts a little,
Miss you, no reason why
Miss you, till it aches a lot
Yet I dare not cry!!!
For every tear that slips away....
I must with jealousy guard,
Tales of love and longing....
A rainbow for the bard!



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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

The proposal!


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The proposal!
Dec 23 5:00 pm

Dancing breath
Steaming cups..
Zooming shots 
Sudden closeups!

Distant hymns,
Resonant bells...
What prayer slipped out
Who can tell?

Warmth of childhood
Through a stranger's eyes 
Perfect planning
For a little surprise...

Loads of cuddles
And a handful of glee
Won't you share 
The holidays with me?







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Sunrise....


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Sunrise 

Dec 22     11:47 pm

Rolling with the dice!
Sailing on thin ice...
Laughing with the wind
On faraway thoughts pinned!
Battles won and lost,
All slaves of time's frost....
From pure dusk life's dawning...
The rise of the pawning!

(P.S. - Pawn is the least powerful piece in chess.)





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