Going back home

suffocated breaths on busy roads laden with history -manipulative voices steeped in the art of politics Honesty is an exception here….   I sigh with relief as I hear -finally the time has come to go back home Delhi was never mine….   soothing monsoon straightforwardness -a familiar tongue of Mumbai pulls me back to … Continue reading Going back home

Conspiratorial

shreds of existence falling between the cracks emerge as insanity or fierce independence -to be berated by the pieces that stayed afloat above the surface   eerie silence of lava rocks threatens to explode with toxic vigor polluting green life sky laments its nothingness in a conspiracy of clouded facts https://scvincent.com/2019/03/21/thursday-photo-prompt-rift-writephoto/

Homeless

born and raised in a cluster yet alone in thoughts I kept looking out to talk, to share I never ever felt at home.   college was fun with kids around being frivolous Realization… of a higher mental age struck… I never ever felt at home.   work excited me as a platform to showcase … Continue reading Homeless

Becoming poetry

wolves that feed my inner world cause me to rebel -take a stance fight or fly win or lose laugh or cry reminisce churn regurgigate -become  poetry   I beat it till it speaks an acceptable language -squash it in moulds to create formats -looks different from my inner suffering -gives me a mask to … Continue reading Becoming poetry

Unusual Leaf

I alternate between worlds I undulate, I’m serrated, I arrange myself in whorls as a flower, I’m rated   stoma – my windows to worlds absorb toxic carbon - give oxygen epidermis hides vital activity but I lend meaning to acrogens   pressed in pages of life I constitute memories read with care - the … Continue reading Unusual Leaf

Looking back

There is a time to come to peace Karma wasted, life's been a bitch I look back at the obstacle race barricades crossed stare me in the face Karma wasted, life's been a bitch I played with jokers, never an ace barricades crossed stare me in the face And I know, I made it this … Continue reading Looking back

The Wizard’s Defeat

Banished from the world not the magic in his head he plots strategies to rule the sky and the stars. A full moon smiles above….   Busy as Moon is tricks well concealed, protected in its roundness sleeves and hats are not his game he rolls over the night….   The wizard’s sharpness angular wisdom … Continue reading The Wizard’s Defeat

Facilitation

Indira has posted a thought-provoking Hindi poem in response to Reena's Exploration Challenge #77 https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/reenas-exploration-challenge-77/. The link to the original piece is here - https://amaltaas.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/reenas-exploration-challenge-77/ Translated piece from Hindi to English A woman speaks O man! I am here where I’m supposed to be neither ahead nor behind but besides you   I never nursed … Continue reading Facilitation

Challenged

dreams lie beyond Sun and Moon -challenged by light years -uneclipsed by hopelessness -fired by courage   I will lower the stratosphere -or grow tall enough to peek into the rough and tumble of imagination ready to face the unseen   I hope to find something worthwhile -else conversion of nothing to something will become … Continue reading Challenged

Escapism

I wonder what peeling the earth will reveal -stormy depths -emotions paling into insignificance   -unseen calm belittling mammoth peace efforts -our pride in humanity melting in co-existence   yet I move away – as lessons follow me afraid of being dwarfed by Earth -my magnificence unpricked https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/photo-challenge-254/