Sunday, 23 October 2022

One foot Dance

My thoughts swirled like smoke
Vanishing into nowhere 
From burnt ashes of triggered experiences
The heart knew the touch of soapy foam
like comfort 
Yet it took those pricks to tear down 
Not to be gone 
but to rise, towering like the fiery phoenix 
To brighten and not to burn 
Souls that I sway with warmth
Born of my one foot dance lost in 
the light of the gleaming glory. 



Tuesday, 31 May 2022

KK


When the voice goes parched and the throat pains. 🙏🙏RIP dear KK 

Thursday, 12 May 2022

Sometimes

 


Some days , sometimes, when I am just by myself, it's this little that always seems more. Joy or memory or just about anything. 

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

If but...

What you saw and what I felt, wish they matched 
Because I loved you more than what you sensed
Met with our beautiful hearts but 
When did the head toil, I never knew 
Those open moments of magic shared were so few
I beckoned your name when those jerks hit 
Caught up were you in your own pit
Tried with tired eyes trusting my deep love 
Ways that you wanted to be away like something crashing from above 
Little did I mean to push or pull you than a lot that I wished joy for you 
Just that my love, looked into your eyes to call me so
Tender and Tough, the times that showed
I never knew to give up to let you go
Until one day you left no trace 
And I woke up in this suddenly unfamiliar place 
Wish we were right for each other 
Today apart, we probably are growing together 
My eyes don't see your gentle smile or hear those little words shared
But the heart here still somewhere cares
Knowing not a clue of the hows and whys 
And why you bid a fast farewell and I had to say Goodbye.


Wednesday, 9 February 2022

NOW

If day before yesterday was thunder 

And yesterday a flower 

Tomorrow could be fire 

Day after tomorrow, just a flat tyre

Blends of fleeting feelings 

leaving one drained and bored 

Today is the greatest time to soar 

For this moment is the peakest place to be 

Before the next one puts you in your pyre. 


Sunday, 6 February 2022

Mangoed

When Rumani told langra to stop feeling bad 
While Alphonso cast his pride.
Dussheri was lost in her own sweetness
Just then Neelam basked in her glory 
Mankurad was busy in homes of the Golden Coast 
where the sun never got enough kissing the beaches
Kilichundan dreamt of luring thothapuri
As if it wasn't enough, Badami got carried away by Safeda 
Himsagar, Fazli and Kishanbog loved engaging their Bengal audience 
And Chausa got bowled over by Amrapali who gracefully dipped the nation in her utterly sweet grace!
As I sit here ecstatic with my Banganpalli and Mallika 
Thinking of bringing vanraj and paheri home
Gulab khaas just pinched my brain as a reminder
Such harmonising play of uniqueness United with distinct flavors
Oh man! I just could get 'Mangoed', you know!!


Sunday, 30 January 2022

Silence

Golden silence? that which really bears no color

The voice of the soul that cuts the noise of the world

The blink of love in a loved one's eyes

A smile of high in the winner's mind

The mother's gentle sigh on her baby's frst cry

The feel of a father's fist on your gleaming feat

The dance of the puddle in the rain beneath your feet

The glistening shine on the serene lake

The pause of an artist after his masterpiece, he makes

Oh how could I just call it Golden,

For the myriad shades, this mesmerizing silence creates!

Thursday, 27 January 2022

Cradle

As I lie in the cradle 
Wrapped up in bonds of care and attachment,
Rocking to the lullaby of time 
I breathe with the caress of life.
Vistas of rain or shine, I smile
Terrors of pain or trouble I cry 
The scream that I want to be, of the sound of ecstasy.
That you lift me and wean me off, oh dear one!
This stranded cradle, the karmic cradle.



Tuesday, 18 January 2022

Diminish

Holding my hand, you have held everything in me
Like a worm, I crawl, willing to be trampled under your lotus feet
To blossom and adorn you.
The dainty curve of your sublime smile 
Bends me further to dance like the
Limber snake and fall into your arms 
Play me around and will I know
the gentle jerk of your divine touch 
Oh my dear one!
With the radiance of your limpid gaze
May I diminish into thin space 
To feel to my brim, the wholeness that you are 
A flashflood of the unknown to me, 
The boundless knowing you are, my dearest!