Strength

Heart bleeds red

Yet smile on face

Hiding pain

Love not just a reason

It is strength

Holds both, smile and pain

--

OSI Prompt: Heart

Haiku Heights Prompt: RED

Just a walk

I am here to walk some distance

To spot and enjoy beauty around

In places, in people,

In tales, in talks

In gardens, in jungle

In rain, in bathroom showers

In city roads and mountain tracks,

Magic I seek

To put smile on my lips

A song of love in my heart

Dance in my deeds and

Fragrance of friendship in air

For some distance I walk here

I am here to walk some distance

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Charisma

 Charisma

Those eyes

Lock with mine for a few moments

A spark is ignited

Spellbound, I look back

Till she turns around the corner

This happened when I was in teens

Yet

Captivated I feel now

As glimpse of those eyes pass through mind

And I relive 

Those moments a little

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OSI Prompt : Charisma

OSI Prompt : 2013

OSI Prompt : 2013

It comes, it pass

So do you, so do I.

Call it time.

When it is

Feel it.

When not,

Empty –useless fill.

Call it time-pass.

What is left of me

Is balance of yet to come

As much, as such.

--

OSI Prompt : 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

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

--

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!

--

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

--

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.

--

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