Sunday, February 17, 2013

Embroidery






Gift of a Knitted heart
Helped stitch her
Wounded love




Yet scars remind painful past
Lost, at standstill
Moments pass

With a heavy sigh
Getting on with chores
She smiles at pain

Pinks, greens and blues
Splash of philosophical white
Embroidery of life

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OSI Prompt :  Embroidery 

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Strength


Heart bleeds red
Yet smile on face
Hiding pain

Love not just a reason
It is strength
Holds both, smile and pain

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OSI Prompt: Heart
Haiku Heights Prompt: RED

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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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Sunday, February 3, 2013

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

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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.
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OSI Prompt : 2013

Sunday, January 20, 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 

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OSI Prompt : Retirement

Sunday, January 13, 2013

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

Sunday, January 6, 2013

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

Monday, December 31, 2012

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

Monday, December 24, 2012

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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