Wanting

Roots want so tree lives,
Mother wants so children can be fed,
Earth wants to be quenched so seeds can sprout,
Call it selfless wanting

Trees give shade
And flowers give fragrance unasked,
Sun gives light and
Fruits get consumed giving,
Call it giving that fulfills self

What touches heart more,
Selfless wanting
 or
Giving that fulfills self?

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OSI Prompt : Wanting

One Single Impression: Depression

Nothing inspire

Day is harsh

Colors of sunset gloomy

Thought of dark night scary

Miserable is my spirit

Prayers selfish

Smiles heavy

My utterances are complains

Compliments hollow

Even blessings demanding

Heart far away to be loved

And too selfish to love

Though surrounded by many

Lost in world another

Awareness that

You are always there

Lost in this black hole,

No light on other end

Faith shaky, Truth hazy

Denial deep, Options ill

Life a burden

Is death freedom?

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OSI Prompt : Depression

Shell

Snail

Carrying always with her

Her safety, her protection

Call it

Her home

She goes anywhere

And yet always at home!

And

I leave my home behind

Worrying about it when away,

Return to it every evening

To be at home!

I wonder what a strange creature this

Why does she have to carry whole home with her?

And

She wonders what an animal this

Hardly at home!

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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?

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Childhood passed

Child within still play

Craving love

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OSI Prompt : Confirmation
Haiku Heights Prompt : Childhood

Underground activities!

(Worm poop on sea sand)

Not known yet aware it is there!

Deep underground,

Surface once in a while!

Cortex

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OSI Prompt : Underground

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.

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OSI Prompt : Muse

Elementry

Flower & bee

So different

Yet made from same elements

As You 

&

Me.

All we want is

To play,

Love and be loved!

So elementary is this knowledge

And evaporates even as we pass

Elementary schooling!

Rest of the life is spent

In search of it.

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OSI Prompt : Elemental

Which is a Fool’s Paradise?

Which is a Fool’s Paradise?

A world of their own

Where love is everything,

Nothing is more important

Not security, nor future

Nor prestige, nor power…. 

Floating in love

Living for love

They are told

“It is not practical

Reality of life is different!”

And

In practical world

One keeps on working for security

Yet feels insecure…….

 Keeps running after power

 Yet always short of it!!

Called mad by their clan

Jonathan Livingston seagull or

Meerabai or …….

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OSI Prompt :  A fool's paradise

Hourglass

Hourglass

We all have it.

Time.

A life- time.

For some mystery

For some play

Some just don’t care

Moment by moment

Grain by grain of sand

It slips out and

We have just

One.

One life- time.

Last grain and it will be over.

It cannot be put upside down

And start afresh.

Looking at the balance sand

I wonder,

Will I live each grain?

Or

Will it just pass?

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OSI Prompt : Hourglass

A plea

A plea

When I am not,

Love is.

When I am there,

Betrayal can be.

Please forgive me
or
Cast first stone at me.

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OSI Prompt : Betrayal

Old Notebook

Old   Notebook

Notes on matters

That consumed my existence,

So important then

…..Now irrelevant.

Notebook dumped.

Left me wondering

What remains important forever?

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OSI Prompt : Notebook

Ordered?

Explosion at one place

Crater

And tsunami caused elsewhere!

Is it ordered

Or is it random

Or randomly ordered

Or ordered to be random?

Is there an order?

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Picture Credit & Copyright: Mariner 10 Project, NASA

OSI Prompt : Crater

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.”

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Pause is a space to

Rest

Recharge

Connect

Complete

And sometimes

 put a full stop.

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OSL Prompt : PAUSE