Never shall you out of forlornness despond,
For answers looked for are engraved in your soul;
And when your thoughts, words and deeds correspond,
Your self will truly form many a bonafide bond.
Bonafide Bonds
Cold Skies
The clear cold skies
of deep indigo
Bask in the enigma
of the inscrutable heavens
Upon a starlit night
Thanksgiving
Kind we’ll be to our kith and kin,
Smile at them, each person we see.
Gratitude shall be the slogan,
Insides will soon turn clutter-free.
The Morning Song
This is the morning song
I sing to you,
rushing into the billow of your embrace,
ascending to the sky in your eyes,
flowing into your oceanic love,
eloping with your wind-withered soulβ¦
Witnessing Winter
Each morning as the smog enshrouds this town,
I am benighted by my trembling mind;
As I breathe, not being ware of the act,
My heart chokes while I cough phlegm up and frown.
And as my mind meanders through the past,
The now is slain with a might unheard of.
The Dance
Come with me
Come join the dance
Listen to the music
Come and take a chance
Let the joy take over
Take to the floor
Let the rhythm move you
Do not ignore
The call of the music
It draws you near
Be open to the feeling
No more fear
The Soul of Nature
Today as I flip through the dusty dailies,
The vagaries of nature read of and about
Storm my mind with impressions from the gory past
And subtly rain down sorrow, angst, and ill luck
I’d happened on not less than seven years ago.
Roots
Life
Is like a flourishing tree,
And every other person you know
Is its leaf.
Leaves are its beauty;
And some may not be more than a burden.
But at the end of the day
Leaves shed off.
Iβll Steal It
Sometimes when my brain needs a wash,
Iβll gather up my dirt and try to sort through it.
And sometimes Iβll come across five dollars in the pocket of a dirty, over-worn pair of jeans.
Iβll pull out my serendipity,
crumpled & small
and slip it into the pocket of the dirty, over worn pair of jeans Iβm in because it feels like Iβm taking this small ray of light from another day Iβve lived.
Draught of Air
The draught of air won’t slay this searing heat,
a heat that now has slain the cold we bore
for years in our hearts till love came to fore
The day I proffered we go out to eat.
Will I Ever Get What I’ve Hankered For?
I will never get what I’ve hankered for;
So I shall not want to imagine that
My dreams will turn into reality;
This might appear too sudden now, but
I’m foreordained to be good for nothing;
And I shall thus not allow you to say
I do deserve everything wonderful.
I Observe
His water brush draws
the mirror for the sky:
the vast lake beneath
captures the continuum
on its refractive surface
in deepening silence
My Favorite Teacher
Her voice was poised,
and when she addressed us
for the first time
a wave of silence descended
as if it were preordained
that a shrilled silence would dawn
when she worded the thoughts
she had in her mind,
for silence was a word
not in the dictionary
the students of St Mary’s used.
My Imaginary Beach
Come join me on my imaginary beach
The night will be warm, the moon full
The sand will sparkle in Lunaβs light
The calm ocean will set the rhythm
With waves lapping quietly upon the shore
Wish I Were With You
Oh, I wish I were with you up above
So we both might make love afresh each day
And pen grand sonnets that no man shall shove
Out of their dying yet unending way.
The Scene Was Set
Well, troubling thoughts alone could be dismissed
On those hills where the band settled to play
Songs and lays and all theyβd learnt, known, and seen
In those years that were past and months between.
The mornings greeted by hens that did lay
Would be gone when theyβd depart; theyβd be missed.
Miss You
So many memories
Stored in our hearts,
The good times get reminisced,
Now that we are apart.
Winds and Ways
Oh, the birds greet mirth and mirth births love
When winds wind their ways through woods of this land;
And the days turn sound with the nights that shove
The light that brightens the homes that here stand.
