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

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

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

Vital

Not happy with

Situation around

And thought

Let go,

Not holding on,

…..Keeping silent

Will bring about desired effects

It did not.

Keenness for silence to be effective,

Took away a

Part of that silence

….A part so vital 

For silence to be effective

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OSI Prompt : Vital                           

Sour Grapes

Sour Grapes

Life spent, searching Mr. Right,

… Of her ’perception’

She found one, at last!

But she did not fit

His perception of

Bride!!

"Oh, all men are like that"

She grumbled

While browsing on a dating site!

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OSI : Sour Grapes

One Single Impression : WRONG

Friends,

I just got up after watching a live debate about conversion of two Muslims in Kashmir valley on  TIMES NOW.  It was a terrible show. Quality of debate was nowhere near mellowness & serenity such discussions require.

Faith became a matter of ego instead a tool that alleviate harmony, love.

 Following verse is a result of that discussion – that noise.

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Faith,

A subject of heart.

Debated on a news channel

Arguments and counter arguments

All products of limited minds

Play of egos

Creating noises

Troubled Heart feels lost in that

Noisy bazaar

And no one cares!

Missing is serenity that connects

Missing is

Faith.

                                                                                                                                Harshad

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connection

Connection

Thanks to smiles

To my small gestures,

Thirsty soul feels quenched

Loved and esteemed.

Small relief seen on faces

Connects me in that moment to

Infinite source of bliss

Indebted I am to

Those smiles.

“In dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed” – Khalil Gibran

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OSI Prompt : Smile

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