Waiting

Waiting

I can be irresponsible

Yet

Sun rise every morning

Rivers flow

Sea is contained

Flowers blossom

Love float

When will I begin to be responsible?

or

Am I waiting for more confirmations

That He loves me?

When will I opt for His love

And not my small comforts?

--

Childhood passed

Child within still play

Craving love

--

OSI Prompt : Confirmation
Haiku Heights Prompt : Childhood

Muse

What is it

That has made eyes to twinkle,

Brought new life in limbs,

Smile on face,

Made heart to dance?

Head looking down Swing up
to

Explore vastness of sky?

Legs are taping 

Body swinging in rhythm,

What is it?

What is it

That has driven depression from mind

Away by miles and

Transformed life into a

Celebration?

Whatever,………………please stay.

--

OSI Prompt : Muse

Just a piece of paper!

Passing by

A meeting of different ‘papers’…..

Asserting importance,

Heard one say with authority

“I am the most valuable one, I am Rs. Ten thousand”

Second said loudly

“I am the most revered, holy words are printed on me and….”

Third said interrupting,

“I am most needed, I clean. Think what will happen without me!”

Paper of account ledger said

“Don’t you see I am very important? That is why kept so well”

Paper of school textbook was polite

“I just teach and so respected”

And another said charmingly “I beautify walls”

……………………………………..

…………………………………….

I found myself smiling

“How easily they forget they are just a piece of paper”

Next day

In a heated debate at workplace

I saw paper, I was making notes on,

……smiling!
Heard telling me
"How easily you forget you are just a human?
why get so heated and take sides?"

--

OSI Prompt : Paper

Respect

Respect

You are you

I am me.

We may see same

Yet

Perceive differently

Think differently

Understand differently

Express differently

For

You are you

I am me

I may or may not

Understand or agree

But do respect you

For

You are you

I am me

…… and that is what makes

Us!

To see and accept difference,

Is respecting HIM

Who created 

You

me

All.

You are you

I am me

--

written for OSI Propmpt : Respect by my friend Sandra

Please take over........

Please Take Over ….

Demolished and dissolved

Ego, flow out with tears…

As i pray.

Now clean

Mind, able to see

Sins committed,

Heart silently prays

Please take over…….

-

OSI Prompt :Seven Sins

Surrendering

Surrendering

A dog in street, my pet,

playful,

Loving.

Returning after a few days from tour,

I see him in a corner,

Low & depressed.

He runs towards me,                                        

His joy displayed,

Making me feel wanted.

Just loving and wanted to be loved.

He does it by waggling his tail.

I too like him

Missed my loved ones & their love,

Feeling low & depressed.

But I couldn’t waggle my tail.

Suffering silently….

What stopped me?                                                             

        *

But no more. 

                                                                             

I now know,

To waggle tail

is to surrender 

to HIM.

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Written for OSI Prompt : Miss (long for)

NOW

NOW

 It was there,

Always.

Not seen

Not found

Not felt

Yet there.

Like

Pearls in the ocean,

Diamonds in earth.

Like 

Breathing in and out.

As clutters fall off

What has remained

Was

Always there.

Call it

Acceptance,

Truth,

Manifestation.

Always there,

Experiencing

Now.

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OSI Prompt : Manifest

Heart needs few words

He kept on giving

Excuses,

Reasons,

Stories

And details……..

On and on……..

She calmly listened.....

Without saying a word.

At last when he was exhausted,

She slowly put her hands on his.

Her eyelids closing slowly,

……Pause of few moments

Transmitted the essence.

“I am sorry”

Was his response

and

Tears from his eyes carried with it

Hollow logic.

-

(OSI Prompt : Hollow)

To Sir, ... with love.

As Teachings,

With experience,

Get founded within

As truth of life,

Respect for teacher

Gradually transform

 To

Reverence,

Love,

Worship.

….Service.

--

OSI Prompt :Apprentice 

Pause

Pause

“Not going well,

Not happy with it,

……………..

Given every try,

Tried every possible way,

What do I do now??”

“Friend,

It is a time to pause

And complete

And

Start afresh,

…..Leaving all unwanted baggage behind.”

                                     *                                

Pause is a space to

Rest

Recharge

Connect

Complete

And sometimes

 put a full stop.

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OSL Prompt : PAUSE

Acceptance

Acceptance

You switched on lights

To see me

You see me

And

My shadow

Disappointed,

In efforts to see me without shadow

You switch lights off.

Now you can’t see me,

Nor can I see you.

Please accept me with my shadow

My darker side ……

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