The Return on Marble steps

 

An hour before dusk swoops to snatch light

When the elongating shadows cover our limbs

The anxiety of impending night must spur us

But the weary day has seared the marble steps

The blistered hop on the scorching pieces of stone

Descends from supreme divinity to mediocrity

To find compassion in soft soles for the beleaguered 

Thankfully, wisdom preached which side was the temple.

Then the dark showers much relief from the fire

As the happy gait brings us to shore from horizon

The same soles turn bereft of all their wonted solace

For the marble steps were no more set ablaze

These steps determine our notion of the benevolence.

Ludhiana

2364

23.54 hrs

12.8.26

The Memories

 

The haze this dusk is thick

Webbed by the sprayed eye

Even as the sun blazes with fury

The blind of the mind is drawn

For the stutter holds the thought

Conjures a whirlpool of emotion

The capsized intellect is tossed

Unable to escape the drops of past

A cocoon forever with no evolution

The vibrance of time is thwarted

A superfluous sepal of shrivelled bud

Our dreams fail to come true

Merely by elongating the nights

The drops of time continue to flow 

Despite the hurdle raised by mental palm

Memories bring a false solace to mind

And thwart the pangs of growing time.

Ludhiana

2363

11.8.26

23.56 hre

The reverse sense

 

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

The Dream Destination

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The chimes

 

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

The orchids

 

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

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