Bad Company

Fatigued and exhausted home coming makes me restless
As if I am swallowed whole by the emptiness
Stacked famous ones whirl around, pity me
As termites start digesting me
Spider webs decorating walls
House lizards playing ball
Bed-bugs play hide & seek
Rats sprint on rugs
Mosquitoes sing
Buzzing
flies
Melodious
Cricket’s chirping
Frog’s croaking, all keep me
Awake whole night yet fill my emptiness
With their presence without which my life
Would have been one of emptiness and loneliness
Getting rid of them from the core threaten my existence
Yet I am bent upon driving them out to be with HIM in ONENESS
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Misconception

Not leaving
footprints
on the sand
since
getting washed
away
now and then
and to be
construed
as having none.
Leaving those
on the
core of
our lives
are enough.
What for
our hearts
exist then ?
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Heartbreak

Silvery rays from the sky
will have no meaning now
never same will be the dawn.
Waves shirk to embrace beach.
Day sobs, night weeps.
Breeze no longer rustles the leaves.
Flowers robbed of their magic.
Fragrance no more validating their love.
Cuckoo loses her voice and
 wait becomes redundant for dusky eyes.
Heart is drained of emotions.
Mind in the process of evaluation.
Body limited to the motions,
as some one dearest
to the heart, mind and soul
first  loved, then left
never to return.
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Musings

Beauty is fire, flame its youthfulness

novice if you are, will burn your fingers.
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Silence has its own tongue to stress
lips move not, for love to express.
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Hate has no takers, omnipresent is love
Some crazy  always try to breed hate though.
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One sows  another reaps, a human nature
 Alas! None feels for the actual creator.
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Live life lamenting or laughing
Choice is yours, go weeping or singing
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Useless for the boatman to row with an oar
if never one wants to reach the shore.
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Throughout life Oh GOD! searched for you
soul left the body, only then could I meet you.
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A Relationship

 
 
Love likes not
showing off relationship
smile on face or tear drops,
both make my heart rip.
 
Ever waiting eagerly
for her appearance
when confronted,
mind becomes an hindrance.
 
Comes like a fresh air ,
away she goes  a hurricane
tolerate she will not,
me going  great pains.
 
Yet, loves me so much
as a princess of yore
always cursing the boat,
can not navigate to shore.
 
Nothing is physical
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EGO

        Silence
         she
         does not
         break.
       
         Pretence
         I do not
         shed.
 
         Love  
         becomes
         casualty.
 
         Mind
         goes blank.
       
         Heart
         remains
         unread.
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AWARENESS

Conscience
Thou art mystery
Love thy yet
Whisper out loud
Open sim sim
Thou allow one
Knowing the code
Thou feel to open
Thou fly
Thou dance
Thou swim
Thou play
Thou thrive on Truth
Truth nothing but the Truth
Discarding worn coat
In oblivion
Thou merge
With infinity
For the time being.
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Writer's Nightmare

WRITER’S NIGHTMARE
 
(Senryu+ an etheree+ free verse + senryu)
 
Ideas
fearing cloudburst
dejection takes over
 
Mind
full of
thoughts
to dress pages
in  shades, shapes, colour
watching disappearing images.
My laptop, which used to dance
on ITs tunes now have sunstroke
doctors advise open heart surgery
Can’t afford as I am totally broke.
 
Enjoy the off season
and a  long break
in this state
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Misguided

Born
with
clean slate
and
flattering
innocence.
 
 
Flowering
homo-sapien
succumbs
to
vices.
 
Conscience
fighting
tooth and nail,
fail.
 
Pleasure of
senses
prevail.
 
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Soul searching

Everyday I stand before the mirror
gazing self
other side of mine croons,
“seven sins
have already taken toll of you
terrorism of every dimension
becoming the eight
what is to expect now
from you ?”
It questions
simple and straight.

“Daily you are scarred
daily you are battered
daily you are raped
daily you are butchered
daily you are crossed
daily you are martyred.

So
Are you dead ?
Nay, I dread
you are not yet,”
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