The glacier oar

 

 

I could peep into crevices

Those hairline fissures

Where the two sides of glacier

Barely manage to breathe

Into the sighs of each other

Like the  parting moment

Of a nascent calf in a barn

Your façade is frigid and callous

It freezes the oozing emotions

That find the way out ftom cracks

Like a futile oar on a glacier

I eternally wait for the thaw

The blurred signs from behind ice

Of a capsized vessel that knocks feebly

On these white doors of apathy

Oh I wish I could row the glacier

Away from the top of serene waters

But the magma of indifference

Leaks silently from the deep burrows

And dies a stony death on ice

The oar on the glacier continues

To wait for the thawed rock of ice.

 

Delhi

22.29 hrs

2174

15.8.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The search

 

As the cloud kisses buds at night

To sow sparkling drops of dew

The dreams drizzle on dormant mind

To sprout vivid memories of you.

The search that stretches from dawn 

Through the diligent  day till every dusk

Upon the hour of surrender descends

You have been forever  inherent like a musk.

When I looked for something there was a void

When I just looked the world was always full

The sun that blazes the day sinks In the sea

While the afar moon wild waves does pull.

Delhi

17.42 hrs

2173

10.8.24

आशा

 

नूतन स्वर करें गुंजायमान

कोई पुनः ठहरा सन्नाटा

ऊर्जास्वित अनुभूति करें हम

उठे ह्रदय में गर्वान्वित ज्वार भाटा

भिंभीनाती मायूसी हो ओझल

हमारी श्वास के सदृढ़ वेग से

हर पल को करें अनुरंजित हम

हर्ष और आशा के भरपूर नेग से

जो कल कल से हो बेहतर वही ध्येय है

बढ़कर ही पाता रत्नाकर कल कल नदी का

हर दिवस करें हम सृजन जीवन पल

निर्माण करें स्वयं मनवांचित सदी का

Beyond horizon

 

It is the wait beyond the darkest hour

Hoping that the horizon where sun sinks

Will be visible yet again with a new dusk

The golden quiver with darts of sight

Will emerge again with a buoyant day

From the deep turbulence of dark

That coagulates into a thick torment

To stangulate the dazzle with his dark palms

Just an hour longer with the hope of light

Then we realize where we groped for support

Was indeed a track to enjoy the canter

Where our fear created obstacles in the dark

Now the applaud of the silent stands

Resonates with every time we breathe

Only to stay on the shore for a bit longer.

 

Delhi

2172

23.11 hrs

28.7.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Nether

 

 

The puff of dust

Swarms with jeer

The recoil of sky

After I kissed the cloud

And brushed a rainbow

When I brushed past her.

Ballooned in vanity

I scoffed at the shelf

My glaze in the nest

Was now the crown

Held back by a string ,

I soared gradually

Till a thunder cracked

And dampened my flight

Brought me swirling down

Whereas now I lie soiled

Finding shards of dreams

Just below the scattered sky.

 

Delhi

19.31 hrs

2171

20.7.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

भीम रूपी मस्तिष्क

करे केवल गज का नाश

दुखी है तन परन्तु

लेकर अश्वथामा का नाम

आत्मा करे परमात्मा से

औ तन का तन से मोहपाश

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