Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Good morning

Good morning

Good morning, says the ball of clouds
In the sky,
Ready to play with my
Gloomy groggy self;

It knows I am not ready,
Doesn’t ask, no judgements,
It goes with the other living creatures
Chirp, chirp, mew, mew, bhow, bhow
They start playing on the field…

The wind blows the whistle
Everyone’s at the centre,
Running forward and backward
Everyone’s a stopper
Throwing in and out
The white ball…

In a while
The cloud falls
Everyone drenched,
Shouts, Goal, goal, goal!

I decide to play tomorrow,
Catch the moment
When the ball re-appears and invites
Me with a good morning!

09 July 2014

Centre

Centre

At the centre…
The elements are held
Tight stable
So muscles of the mind roam free.

In this freedom, the wits have
Come far, far away from the mean…
Intelligence flies, beholds
Debris of lies,
Turns the meaningful into meaningless,
The stable into fragile,
The depth into shallow…

But the kite has not forgotten still
To screech the name,
In the midst of a craquement;
It suddenly feels to upend,
Au secours!
It squeals,
But alas, it uses acuity.
                                                                       
No exit from freedom,
The so-called found-in-the-lexicon
Liberty, out of sync
With the centre…

09 July 2014

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Little drops

Little drops

Little drops have disappeared in the silvery light,
The moon has washed them dry.
They were formed with tales of times,
Little fingers have turned old.
Not able to jog with the nib on pages,
The pencil that would turn unsurely making faces,
Turned into a tree with stories hanging in branches
With nests of fruits that sleep and wake up
With the stars;
Forgotten appearances now hiding brown inside,
The albums arranged in order,
And yet the mind sees through the time,
When the light enters into those corpses
Through the garden, and touches the space,
It is ready again to reel down those delightful drops of moments.

01 July 2014

Storm

Storm

It has come again to plunder,
To clear away the dust of time;
It trespasses without prosecution,
Steals everything that hides like a crime;
A yearly tourist blinded by emotion,
I treasure my mind,
My thoughts,
How safe I think are they,
I chain them now with the storm,
For that’s the safest way.

01 July 2014

Friday, June 27, 2014

breath

So what is this, this breath?
It has helped me live, grow
I did nothing.
Blood flesh height weight
All formed effortlessly with the guest
Coming in going out,
I see some airtight food there on the shelf
Fresh as mommies!

So what is this, this breath?
The outsider takes me slowly to death
Air intrudes in moments immeasurable in me despite me.
Balances life and death,
I have inertia so to fight to defend,
To offend to maintain my stance dignity,
Grace and position,
Cause it’s healing and killing in the same stretch!

So what is this, this breath?
Like an invisible invincible paranoid
It comes and goes.
Creation and destruction at one go.

I have all the reasons to live,
In the way it is…
With the constant conscious companion!
Who teaches me to live in the moment!
I won’t give in till my guru gives up,
But I’d have this question still in me,
Thrown up in the air,
Be it fair unfair,

So what is this, this breath?

I am

i am

I have the power in me
To be bound by my own ecstasy
I have the power in me
To be chained by my own sympathy
I have the power in me
To create my friends enemy
Deliver my thoughts thinking waste
From works that only cut and paste
Focus at the point without haste
I am in all my universe
Floating with it I traverse,
With its rise with its fall
Tiny puny little small and tall
Steady unmoved with every little bit
I am in it, for it, and I am always with it
I am in every single all

27 June 2014

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Hidden clarity

Hidden clarity

The moon,
Hiding in broad daylight;
The city,
Inside the clouds;
The sun,
Keeps the world in the dark;
Relatives,
Inside death;
All outside the purview,
To emerge in the mind

25 June 2014

mess

mess

Complete mess
No one works
No one
Stars, brooks, mountains smile at the working-ness
Winds are perpetually playing
Flirting with the livings
No seriousness
Everything that is so much in abundance
Is on a sabbatical leave
Learning how not to work,
How will the world survive if it’s only rolling and
Giggling without trace!

25 June 2014

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Poverty

Poverty

Blades of grass,
Never been able to count
The leaves in shrubs or from hanging ivy,
Fruits effortless of plenitude,
Yet, amidst all of this,
Poverty doesn’t count.

24 June 2014

Margin


Margin

Sand and the sea,
Pushing an elastic margin, bit by bit,
Territory is marked… for ages now
Different colours fight,
The outside bleeds into edgy foams,
The inside is colourless and hollow.

24 June 2014