BEYOND POETRY

Its late at night! 

And I’m  still up and  awake! 

Striving to write poetry  

All my  ideas have run dry

Frustration comes by

And all words seem to run away  from me!

Not far from my desk   

Cuddled up alone on our cozy bed

My beloved sleeps in

Her curly hair, softly dancing in the breeze

A glowing half smile in the depths of peace

No words , no seeking

Just sleeping in silent poetry !

Its time now , I realize

I  too must put my pen down and  huddle in

Love  needs  no fancy poetry

Love  needs no clever words

A warm hug is all that you need !

YOU ARE THE WORLD

The heart is greater than the heavens! 

Love  is vaster than space! 

yet,caught up in the cage of  concepts!

Entangled in the web of thoughts! 

Oh! Fickle mind of mine

Wake up! Break free!

Don't you know!

You are the world my friend ! 

PRAYER ANSWERING GOD

Not an  idea! 

Not a dream! 

Not a castle of hope! 

Only to you

I surrender all! 

Oh !  Prayer answering God ! 

GOOD BYE CRUEL WORLD

My last breath is over! 


This corpse I leave behind! 


Goodbye cruel world!


Mottled  with passion


Bloating with greed


I  lie rotting by the roadside


I once had a dream of paradise


But now,  only my stench reaches the heavens


A life lost in self pursuit


A breath purely for  self sustenance


A pointless life! 


Good !  All this is over at-last!


Alas! What else can be said!

A POEM GONE

A blank paper swaying the breeze

On me, you wrote poetry

You gave me meaning

You gave me life

But rain came!

And life changed!

Now washed away in the downpour

Soaked in a puddle

Ink blotched up; words gone

Once paper; now wet and torn

Tell me my dear!

Where did our poem go? 

DICE TILL DEMISE

Having lost in this wily game of dice

Lost again to my mindless vice

All that I once gained in good fortune

Has now vanished away as melting ice

If I did not gamble with the fire of anger  

If I did not chase the unworthy prize

Would have all this darkness still arise

Tell me dear friend

In a rigged up game of pleasant guise

Is life really worth restraining demise? 

FIELD OF FEELINGS

In the fertile fields of the roving mind

Cultivating the delicate crop of feelings

The sun of opportunity may shine on you

And the rain of fortune may bless you

But if you don’t know your saplings well

When the time of harvest comes

 Is it not too late to discover

That the only crop you’ll get to reap

Are weeds of anger and hatred and ill will!  

PRURIENT FROG

Adding greenery to familiarity

In the coldness of the pond near by

Croaking aloud, croaking in the dark!

Oh insatiable, prurient frog!

Every ripple, speaks of your presence!

Every leaf, resonates of your desire!

As you violently spoil the sentient silence

What fires in your proto-reptilian mind?

As you croak away, to the urge for culmination

Croaking away  hoping for final fulfillment

Oh little frog, lost in your blinded pursuit

Did you not realize its loud consequence?

Did the confined space of your amphibian intellect

Not reveal the slithering approach of the fangs of death

Did you not know, that it’s your croaking?

Oh prurient frog! Who can save you now from your serpentine end!

CUD OF THOUGHTS

Midst the loneliness of the forest, a fatal fire rages

As the mountains and valleys are engulfed in  smoke

A grazing herd of thoughts

Caught between a flowing river and the ravishing flames

Sit still as they chew their cud !

FADING DREAM

In this fading dream of life

Sleepless I wander

Knowing very well

He who clings to the mind

Will only rot faster!

SEE YOU

I can see the glow of the heavenly light even in the darkness of the worldly night

I can see the everlasting sunshine, even in the hidden dark depths of my soul

I can see the causal webs connecting all things existent

I can see the rise and demise of all composite things 

I can even see the shadow of my own conscious mind

Oh master of mystery! Can I ever see you? 

CALM GLOW

The glow in the horizon grows with morning

The greenness of the grass bows to the rising sun

In the freshness in the cold morning air

And the music of the chirping birds

With silent awareness of every breath

Oh! How much calmer can my mind get!  

TAINTED GLASS SHATTERED

Through tainted glass I view the world

A tainted heart I see

Through tainted glass I see the sun

Let tainted colors be!

Through tainted glass I raise the wall 

A tainted life to be?

Though tainted glass may clear away

But can a shattered ever glass be?  

SHADOWS OF THE PAST

The world before my eyes seems wasted

The sky is overcast, and the earth in barren  

The grass has withered and the river has run dry

The birds have flown; and all blossoms have fallen  

As the sorrow of my past casts its saddened shadow on turbulent water

A never-ending eclipse seems to rise; as darkness fills my cloudless sky 

Fatal it seems; as one more day is engulfed in this dark shadow

Even as the cowardly face of my future shies away

Oh craving soul of mine! Will this darkness ever cease?

EMPTY HANDS IN A FLEETING WORLD

Never was I born, to die today

Nothing has changed, yet nothing stands still

With empty hands I let my suffering go

Within flashing dreams of this fleeting world

Pleasant is it for everyone, when the new spring comes to pass

When chains of love drag me to my empty grave! 

JEWELRY FOR MY CORPSE

Naked I was born; naked I shall die

All adornments in between

Are all but entanglements

Mere jewelry for my smiling corpse!

WAITING FOR THE WORMS

Alone and dead; rotting by the road

No shroud to cover my face of disgrace 

No cloth to cover my mottled flesh of existence

No one to cry; no one to bury my lifeless corpse

Dead but waiting! Waiting for the worms!

LIVID SEPARATION

Vivid are those memories, frozen in time

Livid is the pain; Oh beloved of mine!  

Our broken hearts bleed in misery

 While our souls writhe in agony

I have tasted the rotten flesh of death and digested it

But is it not sweeter than this separation!

Oh Love of my life! 

In this war of love against love!

Don’t lose hope!  Breathe on!               

WITHOUT YOU

Oh beloved of mine! What has become of you!

When I was lost and lonely and broken hearted you gifted me wings of love      

With a soothing heart you made me fly;

But was all this love of ours born only to be crucified?  

Now that the nails dig into my rotting flesh

Don’t you feel the pain too?

You have kindled the fire of love in my soul

But don’t you too the feel the heat when my heart is burning?   

Now in this living hell of life

What will I do without you!

Oh beloved of mine! What will I do?  

COLD WIND SMOKE

Like smoke, like dust

Like dew drops and mist

I come; I go

Don’t last long, like the summer snow

Gone with the wind!  As the cold wind blows

Nothing lasts! Nothing more!