Temptation

Temptation

Cloud covering sky,

Gentle rain,

Cool breeze,

Fragrance of earth,

Singing heart

And you!

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Or

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Cloud covering sky,

Gentle rain,

Cool breeze,

Fragrance of earth,

You

And …heart sings!

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Choose the one you like!

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Submitted for Poetry Jam, Prompt : Temptation 

Dreams

Dreams

Some air, some food, some water….

So simple

So easy to fulfill,

So little it takes and

Release,

Energize to

Roam, fly… enjoy

Call it needs

So complex

Satisfy one and

Other bigger is standing by,

Binding,

Keeps heavy and grounded,

Call it wants

Flying happens only in dreams.

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Written for OSI Prompt : 'Need'
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Congratulations on completion of one wonderful year to haiku Heights.

A year pass

Years pass

Essence remain lingering

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Mask

Mask reveal more

Hide little
It tells what is sought to be hidden!

Masked can be 

Appearance

Words

Style

Can phantom

Called attitude

Masked for long??

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OSI Prompt : Phantom

Respect

Respect

You are you

I am me.

We may see same

Yet

Perceive differently

Think differently

Understand differently

Express differently

For

You are you

I am me

I may or may not

Understand or agree

But do respect you

For

You are you

I am me

…… and that is what makes

Us!

To see and accept difference,

Is respecting HIM

Who created 

You

me

All.

You are you

I am me

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written for OSI Propmpt : Respect by my friend Sandra

Ordered?

Explosion at one place

Crater

And tsunami caused elsewhere!

Is it ordered

Or is it random

Or randomly ordered

Or ordered to be random?

Is there an order?

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Picture Credit & Copyright: Mariner 10 Project, NASA

OSI Prompt : Crater

Smile

A lump on head, her ways

to love,

Crater in heart, smile on the face.

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Written for OSI Prompt : Crater by my friend Jim

Also For Tau Ku challenge on OSI

Love & Wisdom

Love & Wisdom

 (Dedicated to FB group Love & Wisdom)

Thank you for blessing me with

Enough hopes to be happy

Enough luck to taste success

Enough challenges to make me work

Enough work to keep me strong

Enough grief to make me modest

Enough wisdom to find ways…..

Ways that lead to ample love,

Ways to You.

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Quench

Quench

I long to go green,
bear plants and flowers,

Want hearts sing around me.

Please rain,

Don’t pass over me

Leaving me thirsty.

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Haiku Heights prompt : Quench

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

Wind

Wind

Brought with it fragrance

Reviving memories,

Heart sways.

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Written for OSI prompt : Wind

Journey to Unknown

Journey to Unknown

Just round the corner

Is death dancing

Or life embracing ?

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Written for Haiku Heights Prompt : BLIND, suggested by Gemma of Greyscale Territory

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.

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Written for OSI Prompt : Miss (long for)

Fear

Slavery for life

Thanks to fear of failure

Made acceptable

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written for Haiku heights prompt : Slavery

Porcelain

Porcelain to boast

But fail to hide

Real intent

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Haiku heights prompt : Porcelain

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Invisible Source

Invisible source

 

Dark chilling nights of winter,

Harsh burning sun of May,

Dry spells and floods

Powerful wind, storms,

Come and go.

See endure and flourish

Ones who

Stay

D

E

E

P

Rooted.             

                                  

A New Star

A new star noticed

Blinking…

Getting brighter nights after nights.

Inkling was

It will gradually become so bright

That India will

Be seen in its full glory

Again.

Thank

Government of India,

For their action yesterday night

Accelerated the process.

            

                                                                                          5.6.11 (8.30AM)

                                                                                                                         Harshad

NOW

NOW

 It was there,

Always.

Not seen

Not found

Not felt

Yet there.

Like

Pearls in the ocean,

Diamonds in earth.

Like 

Breathing in and out.

As clutters fall off

What has remained

Was

Always there.

Call it

Acceptance,

Truth,

Manifestation.

Always there,

Experiencing

Now.

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OSI Prompt : Manifest

One Single Impression : Rambling

This and that

Here and there

I, me,

If, what not, but……

On and on…….

Efforts

Efforts

Efforts

to make the presence felt.

Point is

There is no point.

Got the point?

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OSI Prompt : Rambling

Exhibition and Show off.

Birds glide,

Child’s playfulness

Beauty of nature

So divine….

Seen and even sometimes displayed,

But never shown off.

Why do I strive to exhibit

My wealth

My power

My beauty

My intelligence

My skills?

*

When efforts to show off cease,

Seen easily  

Is real being – divinity.

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OSI Prompt : Exhibition 

LOVE

LOVE

Like a fresh breeze,

Coming without any notice

and stoping without any,

It blossoms on its own.

With love around,

Celebration is on.

Heart gets wings and

Soul is content,

Sunrise and sunsets are more colourful,

Moon more charming

And fragrance in air enchanting.

It is His grace that visits you

No one has control over it.

When in love you trust totally

But love cannot be trusted to be there, always.

So tender……

Efforts to retain it are like holding back

Cool breeze that lift your spirits. 

                *

Lasting are

Marriages

Contracts

Relationships

Understandings……

Right efforts can keep it going

…..With cool breeze refreshing your heart often,

If you are

Open  and  Lucky.

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OSI Prompt : LOVE.

Border

Border

Crossing the line

Was dreadful

But not crossing was killing her.

She had to.

She did.

Will you hold guilty a cuckoo

For singing her heart out

On a tree

in the hospital compound

With ‘Silence please’ board?

Everyone crosses

You

Me

All

Yet cast stones at others.

HE gave a seamless world.

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OSI Prompt : Border

Place

So, we meet tomorrow again?

Where??

‘My place.’

“Your place?  No, my place”.

‘My place’

“No , my place”

.............

……….

It goes on…….

It is just that they want to hang on

With each other,

Not wanting to leave.

Deep in their mind is a place

Which is neither hers nor his,

It is a place that they can call ‘ours’.

               

                *

Scene is not so romantic

For the waitress waiting on their table,

….Other guests are in queue. 

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OSI Prompt : Place

One Single Impression : Shackles

Within reasons!!

Reasons demand ‘no, not done’

‘Stay within boundaries’

She remains confined.

Within walls of reasons

Maintaining balance.

She is an

Emotional eater,

Exercises regularly to maintain herself

Sometimes, though not often,

is seen

Staring far away………..,

Deep into the sky.

……but returns quickly

Within boundaries.

She is known as

A good homemaker.

-Harshad

(Written for OSI Prompt: Shackles - given  by my friend Ramesh Shood)

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One Single Impression : Reciprocate

A bench …. A smile

It has been a long way.

Body is tired, so is mind.

Roads seem to be taking nowhere,

Destination alluding.

How far? How long?

Luggage being carried

Feels too heavy,

Yet, difficult to let go of it.

It is hopeless, futile to go on

Is there any choice?

Well, it is a difficult world.

And a bench on the way…..

Little rest,

A pause…..

Body feels good.

Mind settles,

Dwells in space within – a different world.

Energized

He gets up, starts again.

Turns around to look back

At the bench that offered a pause.

……….And smiles.

“When I make it big,

I will build benches along the way….”

He thought as he was walking.

“And…

I would be like a bench to other.”

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Not so easy to reciprocate!

Not so easy to reciprocate!

She cared,

She loved

........so easy to reciprocate.

She distanced

And I was lost,

Not able to cope with.

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(OSI prompt : Reciprocate)

Response to Challenge

Response to Challenge

Time and again

Scams and scandals are exposed,

Seen on TV,

Read in News papers.

This is not new.

What is new and worrying is

Confidence of corrupts and

Smiles of accused.

It challenges -

Says “what the hell can you do?”

Youth of India is out to show

What can possibly be done.

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To Mr. Afridi, with love.

Big Heartedness

Different cultures,

Different belief systems and

Different ways of living

Have space in hearts of Indians

Hearts that include.

It is so since many centuries.

Big heartedness is to see greatness,

To see bigness.

You have missed the point, Mr. Afridi.

Please do come again

With an open heart.
A heart that wins..... hearts.

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This is in response to comments by Pakistani cricket team captain Mr. Afridi to press, on his return after a tour to India that Indians do not have big hearts.
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Virus

Virus

I have no date of birth, nor do I have any place of birth.

I flow freely & no boundaries can contain me.

I am powerful & spread like wild epidemic

Virus that spread me reside in idle minds.

I give sleepless nights. I make many feel guilty.

I make many hide their faces. I shake confidence of many.

I give heartburns & I break hearts.

I break relationships. I ruin careers.

I make many shed tears.

Goal focused activity & creativity are my foes.

Best way to make me powerless is to ignore me.

They may call me

Rumor,

Scandal,

Hearsay or just chit-chat.

GOSSIP is my name.

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(OSI Prompt : Epidemic)

Once again

Come,

Sweep all that is written

So I can start afresh!

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Written for One Shoot Sunday: A Poetry Challenge

—inspired by Roger’s prompt

Heart needs few words

He kept on giving

Excuses,

Reasons,

Stories

And details……..

On and on……..

She calmly listened.....

Without saying a word.

At last when he was exhausted,

She slowly put her hands on his.

Her eyelids closing slowly,

……Pause of few moments

Transmitted the essence.

“I am sorry”

Was his response

and

Tears from his eyes carried with it

Hollow logic.

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(OSI Prompt : Hollow)

Not Funny!

Not  funny!

He said no, she accepted,

He was not cooperative, she was patient

He threw tantrums, she kept quiet

He lied, she understood

He ignored, she tolerated

He criticized, she remained positive.

When he turned sarcastic:

Witty though it seemed

It pierced deep,

Hurting CHILD in her.

Reacting sharply,

She exited the scene.

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OSI prompt : Sarcastic

Festival of    COLORS
HOLI


May your life be filled with colors

For all Seasons (Pi-Ku)

For all seasons (Pi-ku)

Care or not

Just

True Love blossom.

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For OSI Pi-ku contest

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.

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OSI Prompt  : Passionate

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

What is it about?

What is it about?

He worked hard

and hard...

To

Reach there.

He reached the top

at last.

Now?

Is this all?

Still higher…..

And higher……??????

………….

Vacuum.....

Wonders

Is life about reaching somewhere?

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OSI Prompt: Top

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 

A Bird

How does it matter what reigns?

Winter or spring,

Summer or rains?

Seasons for flowers to blossom or not…

All that matters is

I am in harmony,

And love blooms within.

I have wings or not……

Am I light enough to glide

And silently

Enter your heart?

(OSI Prompt: Humility. Thanks to my friend from Athen,  ρομπερτ)

Evening. Closer to truth.

 As a day slowly turns into an evening,

Brightness, shine and brilliance fade,

Vigor diminishes.

And

Revealed are true colors,

Beauty that cools.

For

Consciousness reveals itself easily

Through a fading form.

Sense of beingness begins to free

From mix up with form.

Soon

Form will dissolve.

Day will be over.

Stillness of night

Is eternal.

Truth.

Expressed again as Dawn.

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(OSI Prompt : Evening)

Abundance

Where is abundance??

I heard a rich man in temple :

“Oh my Lord,

Please bless me with success

To win more contracts,

More riches,

More power,

more….

I will donate 10% of it

As I have been doing.”

And a poor man in his hut :

"Oh God,

Thank you for

For today’s bread,

I could share it

With hungry neighbor."

Bells of the temple rang :

Not Riches outside,

Richness within

Creates abundance.

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OSI Prompt : Abundance