Monday, November 18, 2024

Open treasures

 

Read the colors in a rainbow,

It’s an open book,

See how the colors melt into each other

and make a pathway for dreams

across the endless cosmic terrain.

 

Pick up a flower that has

happily dropped on mother’s altar,

Smell it if it’s smell to offer,

Marvel at its petals if not,

or both if available in the bouquet.

 

Feel the friendly brace on your skin

by a leafy branch

as you rush past lost in thoughts,

It touches you to be present;

be with here and now.

 

Soak the sunshine,

Feel its warming smile on you,

It showers you with warmth

to take you out of the frozen cave.

 

Feel the kiss of breeze

on the pores of your skin,

It absorbs your tension.

 

Walk with naked feet,

Mother earth will caress your soles,

Like sponge,

She’ll draw out your agonies.

 

Feel the rain on you,

The drops will drum on your soul,

You’ll hear its cleansing music.

 

Look into the open sky,

The formation of colors, shapes,--

the shifting canvas of eternity,

It’ll teach you

to create without clinging.

 

Peer into the night sky;

into the galactic distances,

Receive the starry smiles

reaching you from millions of miles.

 

Rich man, you own the treasures,

You just need to acknowledge it.

  

Thursday, November 14, 2024

A joyous and lively day

 

The morning bright,

Hopes fully in sight,

Then a dark cloudy mass

suddenly stamped its shadowy class,

It ate the sun

with thundering chuckle and darkish pun,

A sudden spell of September rain,

The birds retreated with little gain,

It seemed it’ll rain for long,

Sky’s tears fell with depressive throng,

Too much rain isn’t good,

All go with a sad brood,

But then the sun lifted the eastern veil,

Light flickered with a victorious feel,

The winds swept away the cloud

hanging with its dark shroud,

Dark, gray, bluish, white,

the sun emerges bright,

Quickly happens all this,

Rain-bathed trees glisten with bliss,

The birds come out with chirpy showers,

Drops glisten on flowers,

And everything is again

as it’s supposed to be after a brief rain,--

A normal rain-washed day

with its sun, clouds, rains, winds,

all having an equal say,

The day accepts all,

These are all its call,

The rise and the fall,

It won’t be a day

without its undulating ray,

Just like life won’t be life

without its order and strife.

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Transfiguration

 

There is an indefinable nobility

and dignity in one’s soul,--

the scented core of

one’s essential being,

despite all the

muck, dirt and foul smell

on the surface,

Allow it to come

a bit closer to you,

first in thoughts,

Reading can help you in this;

talking to nice people too;

opening in the unbounded

confession box of nature also,

Then slowly over a gentle

and slow period of time,

you can still bring it closer

to your seat,--

this body vessel,

You can bring it into action,

It then is like

holding a fragrant most flower

in your hand,

And then you smile

in consonance with your soul.

Suppliant-stony & Bitter-sweet

 

Delicious flavor of freedom

lingering in her eyes,

The only way to taste it

was

through her lips,

Loving warmth tingled

in her body,

Giving a feeling of vast space

in her intense embrace.

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Spurting, seam-bursting sorrow

 

The night sky looks so close

and so big

from the top of this mountain,

I peer into it

and read the

voluminous story of betrayal

written with splashy font

in her twinkling eyes.

Freedom Vs Imprisonment

 

A part of me

lost touch with life,

A door was shut

upon a little alley of life,

Then I was blind to

that aspect of life

which the little alley carried

in its journey to the main street.

But whenever a door opens,

a part of your soul comes out

to mix with

a lovely piece of art, architecture,

pattern, design,--

man-made or

self-evolved

on the canvas of nature.

The hunted hunter

 

We are less human

than we think

in our need of love,

We are nearer to raw,

animalistic aspect of nature

as we go hunting our own needs,

which we present as

the selfless bouquet of love.

During our hunt

we carry oldest, pristine fears

and like little animals

we seek safety

in the cave of love.