What is the question to a known response
In such a hunt the key seeks her lock
Like a prey in ambush for the peril
Much as a flow in wait of molten waters
A hearty laughter amidst a silent throng
The jubiliant feast without a reason
An intoxication before the tavern is open
It’s the unexpressed emotion of my heart.
Enroute Delhi
Reverse sense, read past line upwards
2362
4.8.26
12.38 hrs
Where to set foot amidst darkness
When the stifled cries hold all light
Flogged forever from plough to the barn
Tethered to a shrunk horizon every dusk
The unbrindled flow of a free mind
Remains fetterred to an unrelenting belief
Even as the innocent infant gets dragged away
And starves to a neglected demise
The mind continues to chew the cud
Milched to the last single drop every time
The swollen udder covers exploding veins
And merely awaits the hour of slow slaughter
In such an hour of swarming darkness
Even as the herd lines up to a plank
Every stride contemplated to break loose
In itself is a lifelong dream destination.
2361
Heathrow,London
4.8.26
7.40 hrs
The reflection glazes flow of life
Sprinkles her silver on the twirls
Torches waters with her golden glow
Or brings blush to the paling visage
Before conjuring tides in the dark
To contrive their gallop into trojan castle
Laden with lost treasures of
dissolved marks
When the sky merges with my infinite
waves
She peeps with an encompassing halo
That glows deep within my eager soul
And she can find my incadandescent flicker
Kindle her ever inspiring resplendence.
2360
Toronto
16 30 hrs
1.8.26
Reverberations of mild waft
Resound with a faint clang
Fragile rippples in the air
The footmarks of an unseen tiptoe
Perceptible to a vigilant mind
Only when someone cares to absorb
The sighs of concealed emotions
And a thud of agitated heart
That still doubts an acceptance
And understanding of his beat
The chimes are a subtle symbol
Of a raging storm deep within
If only someone would stop to listen.
Enroute London
2359
19.22 hrs
16.7.26
Vivid and exquisite, your petals
That spread like a bold enigma
Much like your invisible fragrance
Or cascading memories in your presence.
When the buzz digs deep into nectar
You recoil to bring breath to breeze
The hues resonate with butterflies
And color the vagabond rainbows
Tender petals of dazzling dreams
Held by pragmatic hardened twigs
Your myriad shades of pink, purple, yellow
With contrast of faded trail to turgid pistil
With a promise to bring another morn
Vibrant and fragrant days to forever follow.
Yamuna nagar
23.44 hrs
2.7.26
2358
Like a beast when yanked in all directions
It crashes to the ground on the block
To suffer the spectacle of her gory demise
Her drowning in the gory gush of her own
No matter the vessel carried often the treasures
Now it scuttles alone and empty in a storm
With the intruding water that gurgles inside
It wipes the word of dreamy soul scribbled within
After many a thoughtful hour and sigh
Even the ink that lent herself for the word
Now betrays the sail that promised a horizon
When scribbled upon in a vacation noon
The flesh is torn like a paper as the beast
Is abandoned in storm with a capsized life
The vows of a horizon are wiped down the drain.
Rishikesh
12.10 hrs
2357
27.6.26
Stranded between uncertain because and despite
In preordained predicament there is little respite
Like a tangled clump of infinite string of time
That could unfold many a flight of grounded kite.
To seek redemption the wayward winds blow
Our abilities like a latent seed their response bestow
Soiled, but not sown and yet winnowed off in futility
The storm in simmering womb smothers his flow.
The desperate calm that we upon ourselves heap
Torments like a deadly deamon put to brittle sleep
Our countenance drapes a tranquil façade for pretense
While angst perpetually pricks our soul in the deep.
Moradabad
2356
23.23 hrs
24.6.26
