LIFE

illustration of W.T.Benda

      

I drink light and warmth to my fill

Dark night gives me moon, day the sun

Hungry hours can’t make my bone chill

Billowing sorrows around me are spun

I look upwards to see Zeus and Leto’s son

My fluttering wings bleed but my words fill the sky

Shining in the darkness they are never to die

Posted for Fireblossom Friday : Rhyme Royal & W.T.Brenda @ Real Toads

TWO TANKAS ON SUCCESS

In each birth and death

Nature scripts Her success tale

I take cue from Her

Rivers dance to death in sea

Downward rushes blooming tree

Each deed done by Man

Is a link of success chain

I take cue from Him

Space shuttle Columbia

Ignites the mind forever

Posted for Susan's Midweek Motif : Success @ Poets United 

DESTINATION PINK CITY   

I found the Pink City Express totally pink

Inside and out                                             

Did Jaipur, the Pink City put on the pink look

I began to doubt

As the wheels moved on in cheerful rhythm

I was at leisure

Amazement was in newness in the charted out trip

There was only pleasure

And seeing Jaipur in strange rosy hue

I wasn’t surprised any more

Wouldn’t have I been more startled

If our life was such two-plus-two-four?

Posted for Poetry Jam

A Song

photo by Margaret Bednar

Why is the mind

Overcast with gray dreams

While the green heart

Still blooms periwinkles

Why is the crimson gypsy spirit

Stagnating in one place

While the magical life

Is fluttering on butterfly wings

Why is the Ego

Looking into the sky

While the soul

Remains grounded rooting

 
Posted for Margaret's Play It Again  Archive #1:  "An Ink-Stained Word List" @ Real Toads
&
Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United
 

REST IN PEACE *

REST IN PEACE*             

Like a moth thirsting for flame

He yearned for a female-mould

That became his Achilles’ Heel

Abdominoplasty

And hormone replacement over

He defied the world

How boldly he celebrated

His alternate sexuality

In the characters of his latest films

He enjoyed gender fluidity

But the mortal frame

Would not bear with the mess up

He lusted for life

Journey from femininity to androgyny

Ended abruptly

*this is in remembrance of Rituparno Ghosh,

the noted and gifted Bengali film maker who

passed away on May 30, 2013.

Posted for Poetry Pantry @ Poets United

HEART

It’s a red lotus

The soft petals spread and hold

His radiant smile

It’s a fountain-head

Crystal-words cascade down

I pick up a handful

It’s a gust of wind

Blowing away rumbling clouds

I relish sunshine

Posted for Susan's Midweek Motif ~ Heart @ Poets United