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 

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OSI Prompt : Retirement

Bare Naked

Bare Naked

On a cool quiet of night

Alone

Rested facing sky wide open

I lie for a while

Calm and vastness

Combined

Play its magic…..

Soon I feel my breath

and

Hear my heartbeats

Slowly

Trivial frills drop

and

Truth revealed

Bare

Naked

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OSI Prompt : Naked

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!

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OSI Prompt : Peace

Moving on

 Watching world same way

Life a repetitions

Moving in circle

Looking within cleaned

Mist on Eyes

Granting new vision

Now seeing better

I move on

Not stuck anywhere

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OSI Prompt : Watching

Haiku Heights Prompt : New

Pray for me

Just late evening, not yet deep into night

Returning home with a friend,

Offered empty seats in a passing private bus

And we felt lucky!

For public transport is a painful wait

Oh, it was a trap!

Doors of the bus locked

And objection to lewd remarks by goons

Met with third degree violence

My friend beaten unconscious

And me?

Sex hungry wolves

Raped and tore me apart

Like a piece of rag

Was taken for a ride to hell

Though hell I was thrown in

By few goons, mercifully

Goons do not make the world

World is made by millions, like those

Who pray for me,

Some even facing batons of police!

Life is fighting against evil

Life is caring for virtuous

Life is beautiful

I want to live Ma!

I want to live!

Pray for me.

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Mind grieves

Heart in anguish

I father of two daughters

Join millions of my countryman

in prayers for her recovery

yet

cannot but wonder

what has become of us?

When will this dark era come to end?

When will sun rise

And we see civilized world?

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Imagine

With minds so calm

And hearts so tender,

My soul touches yours

And they merge,

Eyes light up

In knowledge that

This is all it is

This love expand to include

One and all

All countries, all people, all religions

Included in this love

Feel one

This is possible.

Just close your eyes

And imagine

As you close your eyes

And float in sea of love

I see smile on your face

And

We are not the only ones smiling!

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OSI Prompt : Imagine

Oh Mind!

Oh Mind!

Wishing what is far

Ignoring what is in hand

Always on run

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Haiku Heights Prompt : Wish

Insecurity

Always ahead

And away

Rarely with me

What is so big hurry?

Chasing what is away

Ignoring what is in hand

Efforts endless

What is it you want?

Always on run

Searching unknown

Leaving me alone

Why this anxiety?

I bring you back, but can’t keep

You slip away

Even before I know

Why can’t you settle for awhile?

When you are with me

I connect so well, feel so cool,

But you do not care to stay

Why don’t you relax a bit?

What is it you want?

What are you chasing?

Please sit here, let me know,

Why this hurry?

You are mine

Yet not with me

Oh, my mind

Why always in hurry?  

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OSI Prompt : Insecure

Mind & Heart

Even pain of yearning is sweet

How will it be to dissolve

And be one with you?

Yet

Scared of unknown

Mind do not let go

Pray for me

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OSI Prompt : Yearn

I am Just a tree

Stationary & Silent

Observing & marveling

Feeling breeze & rain

Warmth of sun & coolness of moon

Receiving my food

And what it takes to LIVE

Right here

Enjoying all that nature has to offer,

That is why I am here

That is how I live &

That is how I pass away

Fruits, seeds, leaves & shadows

Are results of my being,

Not my anxiety

if they are useful

I am just a tree

I wonder about this man

Always on run!

Food, house, Relationships, Status…

So much to “maintain”

Run, run & run…..

Trying to earn his living

When will he realize it is a gift?

When will he evolve to know

There is no need to possess to enjoy?

When will he learn to be still?

When will it occur

What he runs for will find him

Once he is still?

When will he learn to be just a man?

I am just a tree

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OSI Prompt : Tree