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Where silence speaks,words intrigue infinity and thoughts travel light years to invade the mind cells wherein simmers a volcano of ideas and images juggling to burst forth into an intricate filigree of patterns and designs, complex in its simplicity and bizarre in its mundane echoes.
Friday, 22 August 2025
Flash Poem : Distortion
Dreams dive unto the night. Distorted imageries, fragments of fiction that never was. Never will be. I have walked million miles with the moon to reach out to you, to your universe of blissful songs. Perhaps you will wake up to my despondence. Not once but everytime I cry out for you. Hold me into your embrace of stars. But you have only echoed the silences making me believe once again that there never was and there never will be.
Sunday, 17 August 2025
Morning Tea
आह! यह सुबह की गरम चाय की प्याली
चुस्कियां लेते हुए सोचती हूं "आज दिन अच्छा बीतेगा"
मेरे खिड़की के बाहर चमेली के पेड़ पर
वह काला कौआ मुझे घूरता हुआ अचानक बोल पड़ा,
"क्यों! लग गए उम्मीदें बांधने ? अगर अच्छा न बीता तो?"
मैने झुंझलाकर कहा, "तुम निराशावादी!! क्यों न होगा अच्छा? गर न भी हुआ दिन है गुजार लेंगे।"
"एक्जैक्टली ", उसने जोर से चिल्ला कर कहा,
"गुजार लो! गुजार लो!"
फिर पंख झटक कर ऊपर की टहनी पर जा बैठा
और मुझे एक टक देखता रहा
मैने मुस्कुरा कर कहा, "अब तुम भी सीख देने लगे..."
उसने सर झुकाकर बोला, " तुम इंसान...क्या करें?
रहना जब है साथ तो ..."
Aah! This steaming cuppa morning tea
Sipping I thought," The day's gonna go well"
On the Chameli tree by the window that crow
Staring at me suddenly started, "Why!
You're again piling hopes ?
What if it's otherwise?"
Irritated I replied, " You pessimist!
Why should it be otherwise?
Even if it is...it's just a day...will let go by."
"Exactly!", He cawed loudly,
"Let go by! Let go by!"
And then he plonked on the branch above
And kept peering at me
I smiled," Now, you too preaching?"
He took a bow and said, "Ye humans!
What to do? As we are fated to be together
So..."
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Friday, 1 August 2025
Scars
Surgical OPD
A frantic Google search on phone
To figure what the surgeon hid
Beneath his charming facade
A confounding jargon
Of procedures and tests
He knew me inside out
Strange! Wasn't it my body?
The first was an emergency
Critical...life and death situation
Three months later
The second incision
I asked him how long the cut was
He chuckled, "That should be your least concern right now?"
"Remember! It's my body, my guts, my feelings...you are talking of"
But I kept quiet
Even a sheepish smile I managed
Did he see through me?
After the third
He said, "Go back to routine. Lead a normal life."
What so normal?
New normal... You've scarred me right?
"The wounds have healed...no puss...no bleeding... "
"It's hard...no sensation when I touch it..."
"Apply coconut oil...give it six months...the suppleness will be back..."
Half a year to feel my own self
I laugh
My long lost friend apologized, "Am sorry! I did not know. I should have checked on you more often..."
"Never mind," I say forgivingly.
"I have survived..."
Today's Prompt : Scar
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Sunday, 27 July 2025
An Acrostic
Swayed and staggered
Twisted and twirled by the ghoulish wind
On the almost barren, haggard branches
Rags of leaves once vibrant and verdant
Mourning the memories of a swirling spring
Clinging to an aeon of bygone dreams
Etched and inked on the canvas of mind
Limp now perhaps once agile
Every now and then trying to rise
Bent, broken , browbeaten, bruised
Ravaged yet holding back hopes tight
And something more...d'you know what it is?
'Tis called the will to live, love life
In moments even of despair and doubt
On wings of fanciful delight
'N cooing the eternal song of rhyme
"See! I am still alive"
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Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Day And Night
yellow afternoon
whiteness of the walls whiter
windows bare curtains drawn
floral prints falling in drapes
two pigeons on the sill
heads tucked
...dozing....
whirring of fans
from the other room
soft
a few
spells
to live tor
on the other side
must have been
quiet too
stealthy
starry
still
night
to die for....?
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Friday, 11 April 2025
I Leave A Note
some days are heavy
staring at the ceiling
hours stop
how blank a wall can be
monotony of a whirring fan
let me lend a story
of angst and agony
of a breached contract
by staying alive
enduring
why?
is there anything left to do?
apart from the rut
meaningless
they say your sufferings are
attached to the body
the soul is free of pain
you are the soul
the brahman
i breathe in deep
i wish to feel the soul
none
is it dead?
the body whines
listen to me...heal me
i give in
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