Showing posts with label Shift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shift. Show all posts

Friday, January 25, 2019

Countdown


The countdown begins - 10, 9, 8...
But that’s a different story...


Is it really different?
All that begins ...ends
 ..................
To begin again!!



Yet it is so important
For every time it begins,
It has a purpose,
Purpose that gets lost
In the process of living




That fog around it gets dispersed
As I move towards zero,
It gets clearer and clearer


Cannot give any excuse


I resolve
Every count will lift me up
Not take me down


yes, it is different.

--

Friday, March 6, 2015

Color of LOVE



Blues of past
Violate Pink of heart
Colors of life



Festival of colors, HOLI
A chance to
 shade blues


Sprinkle and brush
Pink all over
In and out

--

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Touching


Everything that touches my soul
making me feel lively to life
With smile or tears,
Helps
Make this life worthwhile
More aspiration
More strength to my wings
More courage
And

Sky more open

--

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Retirement


Retirement

Now, just a tourist
Spotting and enjoying beauty
Whatever, Wherever, Whenever

 Interested in seeing, not seen
Not on the stage but in the audience
Enjoying, not entertaining

……retired from efforts
Of controlling world outside

An attitude not a stage in life 

--
OSI Prompt : Retirement

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Beautiful Emptiness



Felt like indulging in gossip
Just about to ring up a friend,
I halted….

A moment of awareness

Looked at
That emptiness, I was
Seeking to fill with useless gossip

Closer look revealed....
She is so beautiful,
this emptiness!

I looked at her closely
Dwelled in her for some time
And
She filled me!

There was no need to gossip!
No need to raid fridge!
No surfing TV aimlessly!

Enthusiasm for my new project took over!

--
OSI Prompt : Peace

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Dip in Depths

Dip in Depths


I have been a seeker
Since many years
Since many lives

It used to be Books
I will dig in
Then lectures of Masters  & Gurus
But all told me what was known

It brought no change

In silence,
In its depth
Revealed are new dimensions
Knowing
Got different meaning

Words fail me, but I can say
It comes to you in depth of silence
And you do not seek it
You just be there and receive it

Every time I take a dip in depths 
And be there,
It comes in many forms
Like deep water beings of different sizes, shapes and colors
Touch me, feel me,
Some enter in to me, to remain in me
And become part of me.

With every dip
I am different

-
OSI Prompt : Transition


Tuesday, November 8, 2011

A Birdie, inviting!



A child
Wanting to fly, experience thrill!
“Let go, come out of this routine boring life!”

Another scared!
“Oh no, fall can hurt badly
And others will laugh”

A parent restricting, cautious,
Another encouraging!

All within me!

And  all caution thrown away 
I take off.

Come along!

--

OSI Prompt : Birdie



Sunday, October 9, 2011

River of Life & Harmony


River of life

Sitting on the bank
Looking at the flow
Just seeing…..
Whirls, weaves, pace, swell, drop, current…..

Just seeing…..
Is
so cooling
So gratifying….

Isn’t thinking to change it foolish? and
Efforts painful and futile?
Yet indulging often in that foolishness!
                       
-

Harmony

Loving is flowing with flow
Surrendering needs no efforts
Going against brings pain.

-

OSI Prompt : River                                                                           

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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.

--

OSI Prompt : Betrayal

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Dense clouds


I thought moon betrayed me,

But it was clouds covering it.

Time taught its lessons.

-
OSI Prompt : Betrayal
Haiku Heights : Sunday :Any topic

Sunday, September 11, 2011

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?

--
OSI Prompt : Notebook

Sunday, June 26, 2011

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

Sunday, June 12, 2011

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.

-
Written for OSI Prompt : Miss (long for)

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Passions...... Pain & Pleasure


Passions…. pain  &  pleasure

Want to win, control, gain…..
Ego rules,
Passions run high
Reasons are subordinated.
Reasons followed as fear looms
Pain persists.


When her conscious turned to giving,
Passions take different shape.
Creativity and enthusiasm.
Heart sings.
Passionate about her work,
Joy and love flows.
-
OSI Prompt  : Passionate

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Fun & Play !


Stiff, unable to bend,
Left alone to fend,
Life isn’t child’s play.


Bend to meld and blend
And never alone to fend
Life is fun and play!

-
OSI Prompt : Meld

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Shuffle


WRITTEN FOR THREE WW
Prompt :SHUFFLE  ADVANCE PANDER


Once hated lusty advances,

Shuffled by time,

Now pandering, she invites it.
-

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Cleansing


Don’t feel like reacting,
Keeping still….


It gets heavier…..


Silently...

Eyes get wet
Filled….

It slowly drops out,
……flows……

Washing away
Many illusions.

Smile passes my face,
As I feel lighter.

-

Sunday, September 5, 2010

All Within




A pair of eyes
Same scene
See beauty, see evil.
--
Haiku Height Promot7 : Beauty

HIS GRACE

Who am I ?


  I have my fears  &


  I have my hopes.



I am my fears when
I talk about it,
I take shelter behind it,
I make a show of it,
I let it rule me,
I let others address it or
When I think I am it.
          

  I am my hopes when
  I see it,
  I talk about it,
  I think it will come true,
  My actions are ruled by it,
  I am working for it,
  Others address to it or
  When I think it is me.

  Who am I?
  My fears  or
  My hopes?

  Whose choice is it?
             
                                                      
                                                                            30.8.04
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 Friends, 

‘Who am I?’ was written six years back in ’04.  As the poem reads, I then thought it was a 
choice of an individual to select an attitude and live his life.

Today there seem to be a shift. As the haiku ‘My Choice?’  reads, I think though it may appear 
to be my choice to me, awareness of choice itself is a result of His grace. 
One can easily slip in a state of mind that has no choice. Isn't it?

Life has taught me this in the the span of six years . HIS grace.

                                                                **


My Choice?




His grace

And

You remain aware of choices, always.







                                                                 
                                                                                                                                 5.9.10
OSI Prompt : Choices
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