With unfathomable waves in my heart
Flamed forever by the breeze within
Tides of pity that swell through eyes
Oysters that hatch frequently with dreams
The circumambulating flow of life
And the sonorous sounds in the soul
I carried my sea to unsurpassed horizons
While the waters reflected my glance throughout
Even as drops departed with every instant
Beyond the horizon on the other side.
Delhi
23.32 hrs
25.8.23
2091
अटूट पाषाण की अदृश्य दरार दिखलाती
मुस्कान के नेपथ्य अंतर्मन की सिसकी
बिन जल व्यय जलचर का शांत विच्छेद
खंडित दर्पण, प्रतिबिम्ब दुनिया है जिसकी
नभ हुआ रत्न जड़ित, रश्मि सदैव सतरंगी
अंश ब्रह्माणड के हुए, जर्जर सम्पूर्ण सृष्टि
हाशिये के दर्शन कराती चटकी हुई ऐनक
The flash is here to stay forever
For it dazzles in the sky of mind
The canvas that is painted in blank
An invisible cloak that is the garb
Of the disformity of an amorphous soul
Blessed to be veiled by the belief
Of a lenient mother who knows deep
The pretence of perfection is cast
Till the time the garb moulds the being
In the darkness of her demise
The mother leaves behind a perpetual spark
That guides through the blindfolded cosmos.
Delhi
12.45 hrs
18.8.23
2090
Flogged by walloping race
Amidst a perpetual chase
Fearing being left behind someone
Or fearing someone left behind
The finishing line is a horizon
It recedes with every clatter
Emitted by a fluttered mind
So what if the hoof pains and bleeds
Behind the rush on smeared tracks
Limps the crushed hoof of shadow
The dash started for stacks of hay
Those are now the burden of beast
The pastures are left stranded behind
As I carry my gallop saddled firmly
In search of a staggered stable.
Delhi
18.42
2089
17.8.23
A glimpse into each other’s eyes
Dissolves years of painful aloofness
Your rubicund visage is a reflection
Of the red cracks in my unslept eye
While your blue eyes echo my plight
These cloud clad skies are eager
To burst their filled clouds into brown
The muddy bosom of serene ground.
Your brow is wet despite the umbrella
While I remain parched beside you
Our sighs meet but fail to mingle
The clouds chose to pour partially today
Half empty and half full to the thirst
While I stand in my wonted open sky
Your red umbrella is open below a shelter.
Delhi
2088
15.42 hrs
12.8.23
Shining on the school podium
Basking in the standing ovation
Of lush green blades of grass
Thundering my name and grade
Amidst the empty ground
A few minutes after the assembly
Is chanelled to the higher learning
I loiter into nothingness
While they draw the butterflies
I find them in the meadow
My hands are soiled in flavour
Dipped in the puerile lessons of life
The breeze flips the pages of my book
I repeat the lessons amidst echo of class
Unmindful whether these belong to me
For learning has no compartments.
I unentangle a spider in her web
And release bees from their hive
My aim on the orchard is now perfect
For my pockets are full of brilliant pebbles
My reports are full of myriad colors
I learn life in my eccentric methods
While I flap my wings in unending skies
The caged chirps play the truant.
Delhi
09.21
2087
12.8.23
Splashed with a stale spray
Her thorn is clipped and flung
There was once a soft mist
That dissolved her into submission
Now the grip tightens over her stem
As she gasps , petrified amidst slumber
Before she fears at the impending plight
Her eyes are smeared with glittery slime
Her breath is gagged by a forced tornado
The twinkle she plucked from noon
By preserving dew drops in her veil
Now coagulates in the hideous dark
Stacked with more buds in this pain
Shrouded by a see through sheath
She is chosen amidst a heap on rack
To bring cheer to a pampered lip.
Delhi
08 40
2086
12.8.23
Frames fold and freeze
Softly they sink within self
Like a quick sand of time
The confounded waves
Besides a marshy beach
Constant motion upto nowhere
A striving sprint on tread mill
That rests on a receding vehicle
Eventually it has to return
Regardless of the determined sweat
To evolve with advent of time
One has to stay calmly within
Amidst the incessant frenzy
To recline for a static rush .
Delhi
2085
6 8.23
2085
Inching slowly outward bound
We wisely enter our mental maze
For our mirrors reflect outwards
Change façade as per the pretence
They remain blind from within .
While the beholder approves
The echo of his own semblance
Construed to be the voice of mirror
In reality the mirror is silent within
And is full of overflowing emptiness
Merely a pretence of reflective façade
The taste of his insipid cracked cup
The culmination of a challenge lies in origin
While we often destroy seeds on twigs
Merely to remain clean handed forever
There are no remnants of emptiness .
Delhi
00
10 hrs
2084
6.8.23
The rainbow stretches from slumber
After a night long of stay in the nest
Where the flap hatches for the day
Greets the world with her motley crest.
A quill of fairy has fallen on woven tuft
While she soars even as she wills to alight
Her silvery countenance with red beak
Sparkle in her effortless golden flight.
Her chirp is a lyric to the eager soul
Her eyes to the night skies, stars bestow
When she decides to dig into higher heavens
She alights in heart with strands of rainbow.
Delhi
5.8.23
00.43 hrs
2083
Turgid when downward bent
Ruminating with spiralling sap
Yet her beauty is open to sun
She sprays her breath into air .
Within sepals of her inward smile
Lies a cache of cherished nectar
That snatches a vagabond from path
Who stops to follow his wonted shadow
Once enticed to the alluring whiff
And by the resplendent visage of brown
The luscious droplets of morning dew
On the striped petals of vermillion and white
Stretch their strands to halt his stride .
Cushioned upon the floral throne
He first sips the sparkle of her redness
And burrows into the deeper treasures
Concocts nectar from oozing sweetness
He lies within,wrapped in gory sheets
Till the twilight settles dust on day
The snore of the deep woods gushes
Amidst the droning of crickets in the bush
The orchestrated endeavor snaps his slumber
The vagabond unwraps himself slyly
Tip-toes out of her well spread arms
That open their grip with an innocent trust
Unravels the knot of her glossy tress
As he lurks out of the green doors
His shadow has reached the destinatio.
Delhi
23.33 hrs
2082
2.8.23
