True Nature

A Bud

Opens up to nature

Revealing its true nature

Just let it be

It will attain.

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OSI Prompt : Nature

HIS Kindness

I see you in pain

And it pains my heart

You see it on my face

And nod silently

Many earthly pleasures sink but

Love floats in sea of pain!

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OSI Prompt : Kind

celebration

Each heartbeat

Each breath

One with the whole

Nothing special has to happen

Nothing else wanted

Each moment,

Linked with another

Yet complete and

Free

Free

To Love

To create

To share

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OSI Prompt : Free

Scarecrow

A scarecrow is
Mocking at me

All I want is beyond it

I am on the edge

Since many lives

Waiting for it to pass

Life is slipping away

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OSI Prompt: Scarecrow 

Echo

Echo

Love receive in

Only love

Your being is enough

Everything else is returned

Name, title, claims….

Even sound,

As it violates

Be it ego

Be it echo

It repeats
till its death

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OSI Prompt : Echo                   

Ways of Heart

Mind gives many reasons

And will find many more

For me to stay away from you

But

Heart has only one,

More powerful

Compelling and true;

A place in my heart belongs to you

I care for you

I am coming.

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OSI Prompt: Shortcut

Forget me not

Time to say bye

Heart tender; remember

When memory incites

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Haiku Heights Prompt : Forget me not

NICHE

NICHE

OSI Prompt : Niche

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In love with life...

Though I no longer can

Climb Mountains

Cross rivers

Track miles

Or swing in parties,

I still have a throbbing heart

And write few words

That reaches other side of the world

……..And may be, touch hearts there

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OSI Prompt : In love with life

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

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

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OSI Prompt : Transition

Innocence

INNOCENCE

When child,

String–box phone were miracle

How does sound travel l through thread?

Found them amazing

As a grownup

I know how it works

Not a miracle

Rainbows,

Seed sprouting to become a plant,

Stars, rain…….

Beautiful, fascinating but

Logic says: not a miracle

Space outside is understood

Space within is different

What keeps me going?

What makes me react?

or act?.......

…….?????

Inner Child is in awe!

Innocence is awakened

Now, sees life in everything,

Every being,

Every where, in or out,

Every moment is now a miracle!

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Logic of Adult pushed aside

Ruling is innocence of Child

Miracles seen every moment

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OSI Prompt : Miracle

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

Elements Lost

Beautiful fishes

Long and swift

Playing around sea plants

In deep within

So beautiful, mesmerizing

Sometimes Golden

Sometimes pink, blue…..

…..Different moods

Wanting to show them to you,

I try to shape them in words

Add sketch or photos

But at best is a very poor mock up

I still persist

Trying to bring those deep water beings

Into dry air

And present to you  

But

Dead fishes

Elements lost

Please see my limitations

And forgive me

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OSI Prompt : Elemental

Soul

Soul

Godliness in a flower

Excitement in a contest

Fun in a party

Emptiness in a lonely

In you, me

In this table, chair…..

In trees and birds and clouds….everywhere,

Cannot be seen

Cannot be described or portrayed.

But known within,

More so when

See a dead

….Death in a dead.

                                                                                                                              

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OSI Prompt : Soul                   

Seeking

All my

Hurts, sorrows and pains

Dissolved as your hands stroked my head,

Agitated mind slowed

Peace dawned and

Coolness felt.

Love kindled

Smile returned.

Searching

For that magic

That will turn my tears into smile,

In books and knowledge

In wealth and power

In people and relationships…..

Search

Is eternal.

If you happen to find,

Hold on, don’t let go

For your life.

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OSI Prompt : Seeking.

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

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…….

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OSI Prompt :Seven Sins

Accidental

Accidental??

They met at a bus stop

An accidental event?

…..to be remembered for rest of their life!!

                *

He won a lottery

By chance?

.....to buy a car and meet with an accident!

                *

She happened to go to the same restaurant

By chance?

….and find there her husband with his girlfriend!

                *

Does anything happen accidentally?

Or…… is it well designed,

D

E

E

P

within?

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OSI Prompt :  Accidental

A Mom.

To many she may appear to be

Burning out…..

She is just fulfilling

Her need within,

To love.

Call it

Glowing.

Light & warmth

Nurture

Her Family.

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Note:  Mother Teresa had millions of children and

Gandhi was Bapu (Father) to the nation.

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Written for OSO Prompt: Incandescent