It makes me what I am

"Can you imagine?" she said… with an arched eyebrow and a voice intent to make me believe whatever she wanted me to believe It is the richness of my imagination which brings me here and makes me read so skilfully machinations 0f your mind https://dversepoets.com/2019/05/20/quadrille-80-eat-the-rich/

Never-ending

What am I made of? This question blows the hell out of me. I’ve been through some past life regression sessions, and saw a few scenes stored like pages in the memory of the soul. Belief in reincarnation is a very personal matter, but if true, it raises so many questions. Am I made up … Continue reading Never-ending

Potential

potential-the word gives so much of hope is scary at the same time with its uncertainty -what if expectations are misplaced -what if blame is led at my door for possible failure and disappointment knocks unexpectedly   fear keeps me awake hope keeps me half-alive optimism is a mindset pessimism appears closer home Life in … Continue reading Potential

Flowing

you did it again divert pouring rain to me   water flows under that bridge of yonder unstopped   I count raindropsthe clock ticks away time https://dversepoets.com/2019/04/25/poetry-form-lai-and-lai-nouveau/

What happened to Shupnakha

This is about three women from the epic Ramayan - Sita who has to walk through fire to prove her purity. Yet, she is banished to the forest a few years later with her sons, for an aspersion cast on her character by a washerman. Valmiki's Ramayan is written during her anonymous stay in the … Continue reading What happened to Shupnakha

Draupadi

For those not familiar with the story Draupadi was a princess married to five brothers (the personality of each symbolized a certain value), because their mother uttered the words “Share whatever you’ve got today.” She was humiliated in court with a stripping attempt, and where her husbands did not come to her rescue. The incident … Continue reading Draupadi

A choice and a right

I wonder about the hidden message behind the inventor of gravity creating defiant forces   -trees that grow -organisms that swim -birds that fly -clouds that float, and choose their time to meet the Earth   to rise is a choice a right we can’t forego https://dversepoets.com/2019/04/22/quadrille-78-rise/

Rooting

Heaven-circling desiresdefying map-backed wisdomrise above precincts of humanityattempt to attain moon-blown divinity.Enter the Sundarting out million tongues of firevelvet dreams juxtaposedagainst regality of truth-giving new dimensionsredefining ambitionrewriting dreamsriding on whispering windsfalling on rain-soaked dampnessRe-emergenceof desires closer to earth-a seed becomes a treemobility-challengedbut nurturing all that fallsin its radiusa shade that nurtures-fire-purifiedwith an expanded sense of … Continue reading Rooting

They think I’m insane

There’s something about you that makes me run inside myself, away from the world They think I’m isolated, I’m insane your footsteps in my space arcane violates all for what I stand There’s something about you that makes me run Out in the wilderness, non-stop, on and on… A few kindred spirits lurk around They … Continue reading They think I’m insane

Water

all-pervasive omnipresent deemed to be a life-giver I’m just a state that changes know the pain of my frozen shape the angst in vapor you inhale I’m a state forced to change I love the flow so do you hydrated bodies drenched souls I touch your spirit- but then change I’m a medium a carrier … Continue reading Water