When the turmoil recedes
The waves ebb into ripples
One splash into the waters
The plight of a deserted boat
Like a fading faith in opulence
For the reason now commands .
A failed vow of atonement
A staggered act of kindness
A little more share in the split
A stronger foothold after the splash !
How the world changes somehow
Once there is a shore in sight.
Delhi
2097
17.20 hrs
30 9.23
लोभ से उपजित भय
सिंघासन से उत्कलन का भय
महत्वकांक्षा और अभिलाषा का सिंघासन
अर्जित के संधारण की अभिलाषा
निरंतर अधिक अपेक्षा की महत्वकांक्षा
ये समस्त मन के भाव बुनते षड़यंत्र
और अवतरित होती मन की मेनका
आत्मिक तप को भंग करती
नृत्य एवं भंगिमा का सम्मोहन
थिरकती हुई कल्पना
नव स्वर्ग निर्माण का अवरोधक बन
एक नव लोभ की उत्पत्ति
The sun shivers to pale
Despite his incandescence
The breeze sprays fatal venom
While frozen tides get trapped
Conjure their transformation
Into lofty snow clad peaks
The floral resplendence churns
Coagulates into a filthy grey
The nectar of a sacrificial infant
Drips out drop by drop
As his sinews burst on plate
Adjacent but afar from turmoil
The chants echo to eternity
Whereas the chorus reverberates
Like the forces of fleeting foe
I know not these footmarks
Are mine or of what I fight against.
Delhi
2096
23.9.23
12.23hrs
An uprooted shoulder
Entwined in a rope by a knot
That overhangs the cliff
A soaring canopy atop a brook
The body hangs in hope
Aching sinews and ruptured ligaments
Assure with painful numbness
While climbing up is improbable
Owing to yawning wounds on arms
Often the droplets collect with sweat
The brook leaps skyward
When the drops are sown in her furrows
Now the sun pulls the pillow of peak
And plunges his face into dark satin
The vultures spiral overhead
They can sense their chunk tonight
But I hang in alive , still alive !
Delhi
2095
20.9.23
23.49 hrs
The aim is amidst transparent waters
My hands bleed but dig deep enough
The sun is burnt to tar in the furnace
A ravine orb affixed to the grey canvas
Interspersed with intertwined red sparks
The sun rolls between branches by the hour
And clocks the time in a sombre fashion
The caves are bereft of any ray of dream
Such is a vexed moment of an unslept eye .
Delhi
23.04 hrs
2094
17.9.23
Bereft of my foot marks
The sand dazzles in the sun
On my return to the origin
The foot marks have dissolved
A plunge deep into the waters
And I find spread glittering life
My foot marks slither everywhere
They have carried their glitter too
Invisible on the shore and vivid in deep
Like the smile on thought of first love
The brine within never loses taste
The taste of first tear of the heart
That pumps to fill the eye even now
The breath of a reckless adolescent
Still reverberates with the wild waves
The bubble that reflect the sun
Burst into stars in the night sky
As I recede to my earned mansion
The things I left for free giggle .
Delhi
2093
15 9.23
23 37 hrs
प्रतिबिम्ब है मेरा,परन्तु कुछ अपरिचित सा
मुस्कराता है निरंतर, उसका मन पारदर्शी है
क्षण भर जीवित,वर्तमान के पश्चात ओझल
भूतकाल कल्पित, क्षण भंगूर जीवन
जैसे रेगिस्तान की दोपहर में एक बूँद
रेत पर रेंगती और वाष्प में लीन
पुनः प्योदी में पिरोई सी, पराई हो गई
जीवन है अगिनत “अभी “ का समूह
उपरान्त के पश्चात सब मन के प्रतिबिम्ब
और भूत के पहले के विचार केवल मन की परछाई
The ripples reach the horizon eventually
Riding on their shallow and feeble oars
A scratch on the fathomless depths
They bend with waves without a
fight
Now the horizon smiles at the tides
As ripples slip beyond the grand citadel
Their tiny crest wear the golden crown
And their trough dives behind the blue
Between the sand and the horizon lies
The expanse called life , and life is all we seek
But find only water, waves, bubbles and the like
If at all we wish to open our eyes of mind
The sea is nothing but these infinite drops
And what occurs in their briny realm
There is no place that we call adrift
For all falls within the arc of our life
Between the enormous tides of time
Every I generates his own ripple
That touches the horizon in pursuit of sea
Only if the eye can only brave the glare
And look long enough with hope at the Echo.
Delhi
2092
13.22 hrs
3.9.23
