Crystals

No makeup or youth
Beauty sparkles through eyes
Purity within support

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Haiku Heights Prompt : Support

OSI Prompt : Crystal

It is never too late...

Go knock

Again and again

Don’t take no as an answer

It’s never too late

You have plenty to give

Do not worry

Open your door

It’s never too late

Road may seem to be long

Start your journey

Every step adds to your strength

It’s never too late

You may be alone

Don’t wait for others to join

Follow they will on trail you make

It’s never too late

Listen to call of your heart

Only one life for it to live

Say yes to life,

What are you waiting for?

Why postpone?

It’s never too late ……..to live

Take off.

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OSI Prompt : waiting

My empty cup

Sitting on a sea shore I see
A pit dug by kids playing

Often filled by waves
As soon as waves recede
It gets empty again

Kids bring water by buckets trying to fill it
But it is soon drained
They try hard
Efforts are frustrating

Only sea can fill it

A smile passes my face

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OSI Prompt : Wanting

In love with life...

Though I no longer can

Climb Mountains

Cross rivers

Track miles

Or swing in parties,

I still have a throbbing heart

And write few words

That reaches other side of the world

……..And may be, touch hearts there

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OSI Prompt : In love with life

One Single Impression: Depression

Nothing inspire

Day is harsh

Colors of sunset gloomy

Thought of dark night scary

Miserable is my spirit

Prayers selfish

Smiles heavy

My utterances are complains

Compliments hollow

Even blessings demanding

Heart far away to be loved

And too selfish to love

Though surrounded by many

Lost in world another

Awareness that

You are always there

Lost in this black hole,

No light on other end

Faith shaky, Truth hazy

Denial deep, Options ill

Life a burden

Is death freedom?

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OSI Prompt : Depression

One Single Impression : Elusive

I gave my 100%

I was very positive

Hopes in heart high

Trust complete

No stone left unturned

Some progress did give hopes

Enthusiasm reinforced

Prayers often

But soon it appeared to follow the old pattern

One step forward, two backward

No light seen at the end of the tunnel

Doubts surface

Heart tender yet not ready to give up

Eyes turn to picture of Krishna

On wall in front of me

“You have right only to your efforts not the result”

Comes to mind His message in Gita

 Picture seems hazy and distorted

Through tears filling eyes

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OSI Prompt : Elusive

Inbox

Inbox

As sun sets

And day is about to end

Memories like chirping

Of returning birds

Fill the emptiness.

They never go far for long

From their home in warmth of gray cells

Hoping to find new lease of life

From grand children abroad

Or some old friends

I check my Inbox once again

Only to find more junk mails

Chirping is louder now

Sun may soon set

It will be quiet

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OSI Prompt Inbox

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

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

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                   

Seeking

All my

Hurts, sorrows and pains

Dissolved as your hands stroked my head,

Agitated mind slowed

Peace dawned and

Coolness felt.

Love kindled

Smile returned.

Searching

For that magic

That will turn my tears into smile,

In books and knowledge

In wealth and power

In people and relationships…..

Search

Is eternal.

If you happen to find,

Hold on, don’t let go

For your life.

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OSI Prompt : Seeking.

Hourglass

Hourglass

We all have it.

Time.

A life- time.

For some mystery

For some play

Some just don’t care

Moment by moment

Grain by grain of sand

It slips out and

We have just

One.

One life- time.

Last grain and it will be over.

It cannot be put upside down

And start afresh.

Looking at the balance sand

I wonder,

Will I live each grain?

Or

Will it just pass?

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OSI Prompt : Hourglass

A Birdie, inviting!

A child

Wanting to fly, experience thrill!

“Let go, come out of this routine boring life!”

Another scared!

“Oh no, fall can hurt badly

And others will laugh”

A parent restricting, cautious,

Another encouraging!

All within me!

And  all caution thrown away 

I take off.

Come along!

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OSI Prompt : Birdie

River of Life & Harmony

River of life

Sitting on the bank

Looking at the flow

Just seeing…..

Whirls, weaves, pace, swell, drop, current…..

Just seeing…..

Is

so cooling

So gratifying….

Isn’t thinking to change it foolish? and

Efforts painful and futile?

Yet indulging often in that foolishness!

                       

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Harmony

Loving is flowing with flow

Surrendering needs no efforts

Going against brings pain.

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OSI Prompt : River                                                                           

A plea

A plea

When I am not,

Love is.

When I am there,

Betrayal can be.

Please forgive me
or
Cast first stone at me.

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OSI Prompt : Betrayal

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

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.             

                                  

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

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)

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